Intelligibility between Nahuatl dialects

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Mark,
     Another factor could be that you are an outsider and for that reason, the majority of people would not strike up a conversation with you regardless of how casual it is.  First, you have to establish trust among your informants.  Second, it could also have something to do with your ethnic background, in the sense that you are regarded as a "Westerner" in their eyes.  Last, given the so-called social stigma attached to Nahuatl, could it be that they just do not care to talk to you?