How to Spot a Native Speaker

There are only 350 native speakers of Esperanto worldwide. This woman was born into a household where it's spoken and sort of grew up with it as the default or bilingual language. She probably speaks English or Spanish in normal life, but also simultaneously grew up with Esperanto. I doubt she was speaking it outside of the home because I think people who speak this are pretty dispersed; we'll see.

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