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Nechilwij ne tunal keman yawi muchiwa ne congreso pal naja niajsi. Wan kiunij kichiwket pal nechishmatit ne ishmatijket. Kitaket ka naja niweli nitaketza Nawat wan nusan nitawawasua. Anka yajika ka ne nawi congreso nechilwijket ka yawit nechmakat nutekiw.

She told me the date of the conference so that I would come. And that is how the specialists met me. They saw that I could speak Nawat and write it too. Maybe that is why they told me I would have work in four conferences.

Ne tzikat techmachtia ken muchiwa pal te tikseliat mayan. Yejemet ashta ne mas chikitik ashta ne mas tumak tekitit. Ne tesu nemi kaj kintuktia; muchi tekitit.

The ant teaches us what we should do in order not to go hungry. From the smallest to the largest, they work. There is nobody there to give orders; everybody works.

— Kia, ne takamet te kichiwat. Kwak se siwat te kipia ishulejyu, weli kichiwa kumal pal kipia tumin pal welit takwat yaja wan ipilawan, ika ne siwatket te tekitit tik ne mil. Ijkiuni muchiwa katka tik tutechan. Teuk mupatatuk sujsul.

— Así es, los hombres no hacen. Cuando una mujer no tiene marido, puede hacer comales para tener dinero para que puedan comer ella y sus hijos, porque las mujeres no trabajan en la milpa. Así se hacía antes en nuestro pueblo; todavía no ha cambiado mucho.

"Let him play with other boys, he'll cheer up."

The old man told her, "look, he's happy to see the little birds".

Yut anyawit. Yu yawi anmuwan pal muchiwa dibertir, yu yawi anmuwan, tesu ja pal ankisumat.

"You'll go and he'll go with you; he'll go with you to have a good time." "He's not here for you to hit him."

But before she got untied, when she began to struggle to go, the man noticed that the woman's feet were not like people's feet, rather they were really chicken feet.