I was listening all the time

Start Time	Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey	English
00:00	Aha, yut-te tehpu mahkiyew	Yes, I was here just for a little while,
00:03	ntihihpon, naka yut natokehkimk yut-te mahkiyew.	and I went to school here briefly.
00:14	Kis-al-ote, I think, seven kosona-al six macahayan.	I think I was seven, or six, when I left.
00:19	Elikihtit yukk.	Oh, these cards look bad.
00:23	Naka, iya... Kenuk stiti-te ntotoli-tpostom	And... But I constantly heard people
00:30	wen skicinuwatuwet.	speaking Passamaquoddy.
00:34	Kenuk yut ma-te nkiseltomokuwonewin	But they didn't allow us to speak
00:37	yut school eyit wen skicinuwatuwan.	Passamaquoddy in school.
00:43	'Sami stiti-te totolokehkima wen in English.	Because you were being taught in English all the time.
00:50	Kil toke?	Your turn now?
00:53	Nil, iyey, stiti-te ntotoli-tpostom.	I was listening all the time.
00:57	My mum ma-te kipahpuwiw.	My mum didn't give up.
01:02	Nmunsayuwoq, stiti-te even Portland	She encouraged me all the time,
01:05	nil eliyay, nit-tehc	even when I went to Portland, and
01:08	nuskicinuwi-kolulkun.	she spoke to me in Passamaquoddy.
01:14	Nkoskomhik.	I'm taking a shortcut -- going out of turn.
01:18	Ktiyali-kskomhik?	Do you take shortcuts?
01:20	Ntali-kskomhik.	I do take shortcuts.
01:22	Wicuhkemin ehta.	Help me, then.
01:23	Mecimi-te kuskicinuwi-koluloq	Did your mother always speak to you in
01:25	kikuwoss naka-te kuhkomoss?	Passamaquoddy, and your grandmother?
01:26	Aha, iya, stiti-te. Naka summers	Yes, all the time.
01:28	npeciyan yut nil,	And summers I came here,
01:32	on-oc ntaliyan naka	and I played and
01:35	nwikuwamkoman psi-te wen, naka ntoli-tpostomon.	visited everyone, and I listened.
01:40	Eci-wikuwaceyik.	It was so much fun.
01:42	Eci-woltaqahk.	It sounded so good.
01:46	And mesq-te nkisi-skicinuwatuwew,	And I couldn't speak Passamaquoddy yet,
01:48	kat-op skicinuwatuwew tokkiw apikotonayan, naka wasisok ntiywak.	not until I'd grown up and had the children.
01:54	Psi keqsey etoli-tpostom,	Everything I listened to
01:57	nit-te wesuwe-nutehewiw. You know.	came back out. You know.
02:01	Aha.	Yes.
02:02	Ncikawessin, tan-ote eltaqahk.	I forced myself, no matter how it sounded.
02:03	Aha.	Yes.
02:06	And ntiyahpon, iya, nil wasisok,	And I told my children,
02:09	"Nit-tehc-ona kil, naka apc wasisok"	"Now it's up to you, and"
02:12	-- you know -- "weckuwyahtit."	-- you know -- "the next generations."
02:14	Qenossok.	Your grandchildren.
02:17	So, ma-tehc wen cuwi-kipahpuwiw.	So, no one should give up.
02:20	You know.	You know.
02:21	Cu-oc yuktok elomikotonahtit tokec,	For sure, the ones who are growing up now, for sure
02:26	cu-oc, iyey, most of them-oc 'kocicihtuniya keqsey kilun, you know,	most of them will know something of
02:32	ktolewestunen kosona keqsey 'skuhutomeq.	what we're saying or talking about.
02:38	'skuhutomeq.	what we're saying or talking about.
02:40	Mec-ote nil kenuk, iyey,	But I still get things wrong
02:42	ntuwapolehtun, iyey, skicinuwakon.	in Passamaquoddy.
02:44	Nama-te. Psi-te wolte keq.	Not at all. Everything's just right.
02:45	Kuli-kiseht.	You're doing great!
02:47	Aha.	Yes.
02:48	Ma-te nkiselomiw.	I didn't laugh.
02:50	Nama, ntahcuwihc, iyey...	No, I have to...
02:52	Nmotehtihikan.	I'm knocking.
02:53	'Tahcuwihc stories,	They have to be stories,
02:55	weci-kiselomiyin.	for you to laugh.