In Cuernavaca, Mexico. at the Institute of Language and Culture, Jana, one of our TIDES teachers, learns some of the ancient Aztec Nahuatl Language from a descendent of the indigenous culture.

Jana learns the numbers one through ten as well as casual phrases such as hello, goodbye and thank you. She also learns the names for members of the family.

Nahuatl is a Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico. Though Classical Nahuatl--the extinct ancient language used by the Aztec Empire and recorded in mysterious glyphs--is the best-known form of the language to outsiders, modern Nahuatl is still very much a living language, with a dozen dialects spoken by more than two million indigenous Mexicans. (from the Native Languages site)