I Really Try to Speak Passamaquoddy

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:01	Naka nil wasisok ntoqeci, iyey,	And I try to speak Passamaquoddy
00:05	skicinuwatu, kenuk ma kahk tahaluhp nil nmamam.	to my children, but not the way
00:10	Peciyay yut eltaqsi,	my mother would. The way I've come
00:13	psi-te wen kotuwelomu.	to sound, everyone wants to laugh.
00:15	Aha.	Yes.
00:16	So...	So...
00:18	kenuk mec-ote, iyey,	but I still keep at it...
00:22	nmunsayusin... Nit wen keti-itok?	Is that what I want to say?
00:25	Ntoqeci-te skicinuwatu.	I really try to speak Passamaquoddy.
00:27	Aha.	Yes.
00:28	Stiti-te, tan-ote eltaqsi.	All the time, no matter what
00:31	Mam-ote nkisehtun.	I sound like. Finally I can do it.
00:33	Wahka-te.	Just barely.
00:34	Ma-te wen...	No one...
00:37	Ma-te nokoloku you know wen memory.	Your memory doesn't leave you.
00:43	Ktolitahsuwakon ma knokolokuwon.	Your way of thinking doesn't leave you.
00:45	Nkisi-motehtihik nil?	Can I knock?
00:46	Kwewitahatomon.	You remember the language.
00:49	'Sami ntotolocokewest.	Because I'm blathering.
00:51	Kusamcokewest!	You blather too much!
00:55	Kenuk nit anyways, nit nit-te tokec nil wasisok,	But anyways, my children,
00:58	iyey, nostomon, tahalu ntusis.	they understand it, like my daughter.
01:02	Ma kahk skinuhsis, kenuk ntusis	Not the boy, but my daughter
01:03	nostomon. Ma tahk... nokatomon...	understands. But not... She's afraid to...
01:07	... 'tolewestun.	... talk.
01:08	'Tolewestun, 'sami itom, iyey,	Yes, talk, because she says,
01:10	"Eltaqsi nil." Ntiyahpon '	"I sound awful." But I told her
01:11	cuwi-qecehtun, tahalu-te nil.	she has to try, the way I do.
01:15	Nisinsk cel kamahcin.	Twenty-six.
01:17	Nisinsk.	Twenty.
01:18	- Nisinsk.	- Twenty.
01:20	Nananku.	Fifteen.
01:21	Kolcoqessu wot aselis.	The angel got stuck.
01:23	Cupel.	Joe Bailey.
01:25	Mecimtehsin.	It got stuck.
01:27	Anyway, wen, iyey, wen...You... Anqoc-ote wen etoli-tpostok	Anyway, sometimes when you listen to...
01:34	wasisok, ma-te 'tuwehkawoniya tokkiw...	children, they don't use it until they've...
01:38	...kisikit.	...grown up.