Thanks, Maria, for being our guide to Oaxacan culture & for your work at preserving Zapotec & helping the language to flourish again! Minority languages and cultures must be taught and encouraged - now more than ever! You're doing great work. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You're a good tour guide. It's good that you want to have a written language but what are you going to convey with it? What ideas of importance do you have to share?
@@AbandonedMaine Well, the Zapotec language has been written since the pre-Columbian era. What I am doing is reviving the language through social media and my platform. With the alphabet that was created by the zapotec community . I as a grad student can help alongside with my peers create the alphabet visually good so we can share it to the community, most importantly to the kids.
Maria is an absolutely amazing human being. I have enjoyed your videos for years,. Maria will certainly be a person I remember. I would love to see a follow up on her journey! Keep being a good human!
I love mole too. It is kinda hard to describe the taste other than calling out elements in it. But the combination is really what makes it. Mole with fresh tortillas is one of my favorite meals hands down.
The movie Arrival (I think?) is about aliens coming and the gvmt hiring a linguist to communicate with them, really cool movie would recommend. Agreed that Ari would have been a better option haha
I love when people find their talent and fully embrace it and you sir have definitely found yours, almost 54 years and I'm still searching for mine lol. I've been watching your videos for a few years now and I'm always blown away
Thank you for this Ari. I love that you are bringing these rare languages and cultures to the mainstream. I challenge to you try learning the Yaqui language please! Indigenous to Sonora, Mexico and Arizona.
It's funny because in that language, "Hello" sounds a lot like "Adios" (or at least how he was pronouncing it) so I kept expecting him to walk away every time he said hello haha
I used to work with some Finnish ladies while in Azerbaijan. The Finnish word for 'yes' sounds like the Azeri word for 'no'. There were some misunderstandings for sure!
Brooo, I’ve been watching Xiaoma since early 2020. Never would’ve expected him to learn the language my ancestors spoke. It’s crazy recognizing some of the words he spoke and seeing him interact with people from neighboring pueblos of my parents. Awesome dude. Keep it going
I like this channel! This was especially interesting to me because I have grown Zapotec jalapeno peppers in my garden the last few years. Highly recommended!
I don't know why he put the subtitle like that because she didn't say anything that would mean 'bro' and that type of words is like never used by older women.
I'd love to see you learn cape verdean creole! All the dialects from each island! This would be so wholesome (I'm bias to São Vicente creole because it's what I speak hehe)
Hey Xiaoma, big fan! I'm doing my working holiday in Australia and I think you should try learning Aboriginal Kriol, which is a collective dialect of first nations people here, maybe visit down under and give it a go
Thats so funny, im in a small town in the Texas panhandle, but grew up eating Mexican candies. We always ate the one he loved. Love sharing cultures!! ❤
Yo nací cerca de esa región y conozco un poquito. Pero Ud está muy por encima. Muchas, muchas gracias por interesarse en nuestros lenguajes. También sé que Ud habla maya.
Hey Xioma, if you want to practice Zapotec there is a youtuber called El Huarache Oaxaqueno who converses with older folks who speak Zapotec or other dialects from Oaxaca. It would be cool to see a collab!
That is awesome! The agua de chilacayote is delicious, wish I could get some around where I live. I’ve only had it a couple times. And mole is just amazing.
I’ve always wanted to learn to at least be able to be get to a basic conversation in another language. What would be your #1 tip on learning a different language? Also, the woman that guided you, she spoke better English than most ppl I know. She is awesome!!
Ari,you are an amazing man. Not only in your language skills but anyone would love you to come and eat with them….you eat anything. I liked this one today, these people were lovely.😊
Xioma please learn “mixteco”!! There are so many of us who speak it in California too and im sure out of state as well. Depending on region, it’s very differently spoken as well, just like zapoteco! I’d love to teach you mixteco from our region though!☺️
So I was just thinking the other day “I wonder if xioma knows about oaxacan language…” I just recently started working around Oakland, CA and I hear “mexican” looking people speak a language that did not sound like Spanish. My coworker told me it was Oaxacan. It sounds so cool when listening to conversations because it sounds like nothing im used to hearing. Thanks for this!
...1:40...that boob cup is definitely part of the culture!...lol...my grandpa had like 4 different kinds...I remember...lol...there was the traditional brown one with the brown nipple (that's like from southern Mexico)...lol...there was a brown one with a pink nipple (that one's like from Northern Mexico)...lol...there was a pink one with a dark pink nipple (I guess that one's the white woman one)...lol...and last but not least, my favorite, the dark brown one with the dark brown nipple (I guess that one's from the southern coastal tip of Mexico)...lol...the Lilongo one!...lol...I used to drink my Pancho Pantera chocolate milk from that one, for real!...por eso soy mamon y me gustan las negras!...lol...al chile que si...
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This is amazing! Thank you for allowing me to give you a tour of Oaxacan gastronomy and language.
Thanks, Maria, for being our guide to Oaxacan culture & for your work at preserving Zapotec & helping the language to flourish again! Minority languages and cultures must be taught and encouraged - now more than ever! You're doing great work. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You're a good tour guide. It's good that you want to have a written language but what are you going to convey with it? What ideas of importance do you have to share?
@@Gaeilgeoir Thank you so much 🤗
@@AbandonedMaine Well, the Zapotec language has been written since the pre-Columbian era. What I am doing is reviving the language through social media and my platform. With the alphabet that was created by the zapotec community . I as a grad student can help alongside with my peers create the alphabet visually good so we can share it to the community, most importantly to the kids.
Thank you for sharing with us! And love that you’re attempting revitalization! Best of luck with your work!
That lady that was with you was good-hearted and totally awesome!
High Fives!
That woman's goals are admirable. Take pride in the language of your ancestors!
Sad that the parents have that stigma from school.
Each village has their own type of Zapotec language..those from the mountains don't even understand those from the valley..crazy !
i live in central texas and us mexicans here who speak it have our own specific dialect as well!
@@coolguy-wx6qvwow that’s so cool to know!
I’m from Central TX too and sometimes I don’t understand deep East TX English dialect! 😂
subculture beef back in the day lead to sepration and secrets
@@prisfiles sometimes i don't understand kids from my own school 💀 we have fun tho!!
The lady with you today was awesome!
DUUUUUUUDE, I'm so happy you're shining light to México's Indigenous languages
He did a Yucatec Maya one a few years ago, it's still on this channel... check it out!
+1 on the Tejate. If its one thing I could share with everyone it would be Tejate.
I love Maria...she is such a sweet lady. So glad she is featured here on this great video. Thank you Maria for keeping the history alive!
Maria is an absolutely amazing human being. I have enjoyed your videos for years,. Maria will certainly be a person I remember. I would love to see a follow up on her journey! Keep being a good human!
Great video! Maria is so lovely :D she is doing great work
Your friend is so sweet!
Gran video Xiaoma, eres la muestra de como se debe dejar atrás el miedo o vergüenza para aprender cualquier idioma.
Your reaction to mole is literally me every single time I eat it and I'm Mexican 😂 🎉 mole is soooooo good
Coffee Mole sauce is best in my opinion. It can be added to such a variety of dishes.
@@popkillspoetryx8791 I live in England and never had it before... Can you taste any sweetness from the chocolate or what?
@@droidgeist Chocolate is not very sweet on its own, but I think there are other sweet ingredients added, depending on the mole
Goddamn this whole video made me so hungry and I've never even had most of these foods
I love mole too. It is kinda hard to describe the taste other than calling out elements in it. But the combination is really what makes it. Mole with fresh tortillas is one of my favorite meals hands down.
This made me realize that so much of our speech developed through the process of acquiring and enjoying food :)
What a sweetheart! You can tell how proud she is of her culture!
Tienes que ir a Oaxaca un dia, Xiaoma. La mejor comida y la mejor gente, las mejores playas. Muchos saludos!
If the aliens come, I know who we are sending to communicate
The movie Arrival (I think?) is about aliens coming and the gvmt hiring a linguist to communicate with them, really cool movie would recommend. Agreed that Ari would have been a better option haha
😂 that was good
@@Cameron4557 Ari-val! Had to haha
Someone who can say some words in a language? 🤣🤣🤣"Uh uh uh, please (translates to invade) Uh, I mean coca cola Uh Uh"
@@BonShula lool you hatin haardd fam. Let's see your language vids😂😂
xiaoma! you look so healthy. great to see new videos.
Commented the same his weight loss transformation is actually very impressive
@@Roobadoon Yes. His diet journey results are impressive, however, more videos - more weight.
Xiaoma collecting languages like ash collecting pokemon 😂😂
Accurate 😂
Yeah total xd
Gotta catch ‘em all, Linguistic 😅
Not funny didn't laugh
Collecting the hearts of the people more like it
Maria speaking Korean out of nowhere too?! Go girl👏🏼 Dying to try that mole 🤤
God bless you and all your days Xiaoma
It seems the rarer the language the more gracious the speakers are trying to understand people trying to learn it.
My man!!!! Now you need to do a video speaking Nahuatl please!
I learn so much with every video you make. Thank you, Xiaoma!
If LA holds some kind of international food festival, Ari should attend and order food in 20 languages. He'll need a posse to eat it all.
I love when people find their talent and fully embrace it and you sir have definitely found yours, almost 54 years and I'm still searching for mine lol. I've been watching your videos for a few years now and I'm always blown away
you inspired me to start learning mandarin, met so many amazing people bc of you 😊
Please do more food videos! I love to see you enjoy different cultures' foods!
Thank you for this Ari. I love that you are bringing these rare languages and cultures to the mainstream. I challenge to you try learning the Yaqui language please! Indigenous to Sonora, Mexico and Arizona.
It's funny because in that language, "Hello" sounds a lot like "Adios" (or at least how he was pronouncing it) so I kept expecting him to walk away every time he said hello haha
I used to work with some Finnish ladies while in Azerbaijan. The Finnish word for 'yes' sounds like the Azeri word for 'no'. There were some misunderstandings for sure!
Maria has such a bright smile! She seems like a wonderful person
He understands the lure of De La Rosa Marzipan, it really is addicting!
I gotta say, I love this channel!
So awesome to hear this language, my gf speaks Chinanteco and was just telling me about some of the other ones related to hers. 😃
As a Californian I'm finding it surreal hearing all these small shop workers/owners responding in clearer english than most of my neighbors...
They didn't come to the US to take.
@@TheLostTargetlike your ancestors euroboy
Maria's just delightful
Smile on that boys face shows a lot 💪🏼👍🏻
Haven’t been around recently but bro you have lost so much weight it’s insane love to see it bro 🙌🏼 keep grinding and making peoples days my man
this dude blows my mind.. and the reactions are heavy..folks need to be seen. to facilitate this good will is mega. what a stud.
The young woman that was with you was so shy 😂. She seems like an awesome person.
Would be cool to see him try learning Purepecha ❤ Love seeing people like Maria dedicated to learn the language of their ancestors.
Brooo, I’ve been watching Xiaoma since early 2020. Never would’ve expected him to learn the language my ancestors spoke. It’s crazy recognizing some of the words he spoke and seeing him interact with people from neighboring pueblos of my parents. Awesome dude. Keep it going
I like this channel! This was especially interesting to me because I have grown Zapotec jalapeno peppers in my garden the last few years. Highly recommended!
i didnt want the video to end...it was really cool
You're amazing dude!
"Bro speaks Korean!"
They is video where he speak Korean
@@manuelgerman1426 he was referring to 11:05
Funny how an expression, such as "bro", will move thru languages and countries.
I don't know why he put the subtitle like that because she didn't say anything that would mean 'bro' and that type of words is like never used by older women.
Thank you for going to Mexico ❤❤❤❤
Awesome stuff man.. had I known you were down here I would of been out there.
mad respect for you! i enjoyed watching this video
I wish I knew that you were coming here, my aunt would have loved to teach you Zapotec from Yalalag and you could have tried Pozontle.
I'd love to see you learn cape verdean creole! All the dialects from each island! This would be so wholesome (I'm bias to São Vicente creole because it's what I speak hehe)
I'm amazed at how you can switch between the different languages.
The camera always trips me up haha. Looks like you are speaking to everyone sideways
Thanks for the video 👍🏻
Hey Xiaoma, big fan! I'm doing my working holiday in Australia and I think you should try learning Aboriginal Kriol, which is a collective dialect of first nations people here, maybe visit down under and give it a go
Looking good man.
Ari travels thru countries acquiring languages, food, and new friends. Sounds like a good way to live.
This fantastic. Welcome to our city. ❤
Whoa!!!! You’re in my community!! If you ever do a day you walk around Ktown speaking Korean, I’d love to be a student ! Haha! Much love from LA
That candy/sweet you had at 7:40 were my favorite as a kid my shop teacher in middle school use to give them out lol
what's it called? I want to see if it's similar to russian halva
@@ainrec de la rosa mazapan
Thats so funny, im in a small town in the Texas panhandle, but grew up eating Mexican candies. We always ate the one he loved. Love sharing cultures!! ❤
Brother if you ever make a Quechua video/ lessons I will be the first one there haha. I know you’d be able to learn it for sure!
Yo nací cerca de esa región y conozco un poquito. Pero Ud está muy por encima. Muchas, muchas gracias por interesarse en nuestros lenguajes. También sé que Ud habla maya.
Looking good Ari. I see you!
Hey Xioma, if you want to practice Zapotec there is a youtuber called El Huarache Oaxaqueno who converses with older folks who speak Zapotec or other dialects from Oaxaca. It would be cool to see a collab!
Chale, mejor el gringo que nosotros los mexicanos 😢😢 bien Ari, te pasaste de lanza...😮😮
Saludos desde Argentina. Estuvo piola el video
your friend is adorable omgggg 😍
Respect ✊🏽
That is awesome! The agua de chilacayote is delicious, wish I could get some around where I live. I’ve only had it a couple times. And mole is just amazing.
Great video 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸
Awesome video my man! You deopped that pin!
This is wholesome ❤
8:47 “I’m not that hungry”
gets a massive dish😂
Are you ok bro ? Just checking in on you 💯❤️
That was Spapotec! 🙂
I love mazapan, and I love mole. There are so many different types, each delicious in its own way.
Bro my respect to how you learn . you're a straight boss. No diddy
I love this. Both my parents speak Zapoteco.
this is my favourite language companion you had everrr
Lovely sounding language!
I’ve always wanted to learn to at least be able to be get to a basic conversation in another language. What would be your #1 tip on learning a different language? Also, the woman that guided you, she spoke better English than most ppl I know. She is awesome!!
Oh my god MEXICO !!! Yess 🤩! I’m not missing this video.
It's not in Mexico...it clearly says LA
Wow this guy is amazing 👏
Zapotec 😮😊
He needs to start selling 'That's so good' shirts
And another shirt with 9:49 on it 😂
Ari,you are an amazing man. Not only in your language skills but anyone would love you to come and eat with them….you eat anything. I liked this one today, these people were lovely.😊
Amazing 💐💐💐💐💐💐
You should try to learn the munsee dialect of the Lenape language, NYC is their homelands!!
Language really does bring us together
that lady youre with is a sweetheart!
glad someone introduced you to 'de la rosa' mazapan, one of my favorite things in the whole world lol its soooo good (if you like peanuts)
Xioma please learn “mixteco”!! There are so many of us who speak it in California too and im sure out of state as well. Depending on region, it’s very differently spoken as well, just like zapoteco! I’d love to teach you mixteco from our region though!☺️
I ENVY HIM and his ability to learn languages like that!!! 😩😩😩
Me and my friend mom’s are from Oaxaca this is nice to watch
those grasshoppers and crickets are mad fuckin good tbh i've had them here in the states
Mazapan is that peanut tasting sweet that you ate🤤!!! Mole (some people call it chocolate chicken 😮) should be eaten with flour tortillas!!!❤
So I was just thinking the other day “I wonder if xioma knows about oaxacan language…”
I just recently started working around Oakland, CA and I hear “mexican” looking people speak a language that did not sound like Spanish. My coworker told me it was Oaxacan. It sounds so cool when listening to conversations because it sounds like nothing im used to hearing. Thanks for this!
...1:40...that boob cup is definitely part of the culture!...lol...my grandpa had like 4 different kinds...I remember...lol...there was the traditional brown one with the brown nipple (that's like from southern Mexico)...lol...there was a brown one with a pink nipple (that one's like from Northern Mexico)...lol...there was a pink one with a dark pink nipple (I guess that one's the white woman one)...lol...and last but not least, my favorite, the dark brown one with the dark brown nipple (I guess that one's from the southern coastal tip of Mexico)...lol...the Lilongo one!...lol...I used to drink my Pancho Pantera chocolate milk from that one, for real!...por eso soy mamon y me gustan las negras!...lol...al chile que si...
Nice try on this one. You are very talented.
Every time you said "hello" in Zapotec, my brain heard "adiós" and I had a moment of confusion 😅
Ari is one of the most wholesome people on youtube
It'd be cool to see you react to movie or TV shows trying to speak a language!