Francis began his last full day in Ecuador with an open-air Mass that drew more than 1 million people and featured readings in Quichua, the native language mostly spoken in Ecuador, and Ecuadorean ...

There are more opportunities for students from here to study in Ecuador. The next group of Penn State students and future language teachers will go there next May.

The new languages are spoken by more than 614 million people across the globe, representing around 8% of the world's population, according to Google.

Every Kichwa word spoken in class, every song shared at a cultural event, is a thread she wove, connecting the two worlds: the Indigenous traditions of Ecuador and the American society.