The worst thing is that we are terrible at both english and maltese… sentences be like,
– issa se nibbejkja din fl-oven għal 15 minutes imbagħad nipporxinjaha
– nieħu pjaċir narak tistraggilja
– se nirriplejsjawha għax xrinkjat
Tal-biki.
Well not all Maltese are bad in English, but most are. What I found interesting that English is our co-official language yet we are not treated as native speakers.
This list really should have an American flag, considering that 350 million of them can’t even spell “colour” or pronounce “adult” correctly.
i’ve met Maltese people with really really bad english in the age from 23 to 35 🤷🏼♀️
I don’t speak Maltese, but they sure say “allriiight” alot here.
During my (almost) 4 years on Malta, the only people I have meet who could not communicate in English where few pretty old farmers. Almost in all cases they have tried to compliment my two dogs… but could not progress beyond “dog” and “good”.
Speaking English gets you comments like qziez, kiesah & other stupid ones from many maltese.
If takes a special kind of idiot to have english as an official languages with a history so entwined with the UK … sports, ww2, commonwealth, education, infrastructure… the list goes on…& then hassle maltese who have english as their first.
Then you meet basically the every single nordic person, many Africans, eastern europe… countries completely unrelated to the UK… & they all speak it & generally have no issues with each other speaking it. Fucking caveman maltese…
Even more hilarious is the maltese speaking maltese have garbage maltese grammar… mur ifhem
Being a Maltese person living in England since the age of 7, I think I completely understand why Nordic countries speak English so well, yet Maltese find it more difficult.
From trying to learn Swedish & Norwegian briefly there are many more similarities with English in terms of structure & context, than there are with Maltese. Whole sentences in English are often 1 or 2 words in Maltese. I’m late 20’s now and I find myself “thinking in English” now more than “Thinking in Maltese”, but whenever I return to Malta this reverses & I find myself thinking in Maltese, does this make sense?
I’m receptive bilingual and understand and can read Maltese but can’t express, which is frustrating for me & My Maltese relatives who I understand but can’t fully communicate with.I’m not a linguist and have no education in Linguistics, but It would be interesting to hear the opinion of a person with education in Linguistics. What I do know is Maltese is a semitic based language (like Arabic) whereas English is a Germanic based language.
The ones Ive spoken with are utterly fluent, even with an english accent.
bad take.
I like it orraajjjbiii
A shit take by a maltese person on this sub? not surprising. most maltese have decent english, and a significant portion especially those who went to university have excellent english, especially in comparison to our maltese grammatical skills. This simply isnt true.
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The worst thing is that we are terrible at both english and maltese… sentences be like,
– issa se nibbejkja din fl-oven għal 15 minutes imbagħad nipporxinjaha
– nieħu pjaċir narak tistraggilja
– se nirriplejsjawha għax xrinkjat
Tal-biki.
Well not all Maltese are bad in English, but most are. What I found interesting that English is our co-official language yet we are not treated as native speakers.
This list really should have an American flag, considering that 350 million of them can’t even spell “colour” or pronounce “adult” correctly.
i’ve met Maltese people with really really bad english in the age from 23 to 35 🤷🏼♀️
I don’t speak Maltese, but they sure say “allriiight” alot here.
During my (almost) 4 years on Malta, the only people I have meet who could not communicate in English where few pretty old farmers. Almost in all cases they have tried to compliment my two dogs… but could not progress beyond “dog” and “good”.
Speaking English gets you comments like qziez, kiesah & other stupid ones from many maltese.
If takes a special kind of idiot to have english as an official languages with a history so entwined with the UK … sports, ww2, commonwealth, education, infrastructure… the list goes on…& then hassle maltese who have english as their first.
Then you meet basically the every single nordic person, many Africans, eastern europe… countries completely unrelated to the UK… & they all speak it & generally have no issues with each other speaking it. Fucking caveman maltese…
Even more hilarious is the maltese speaking maltese have garbage maltese grammar… mur ifhem
Being a Maltese person living in England since the age of 7, I think I completely understand why Nordic countries speak English so well, yet Maltese find it more difficult.
From trying to learn Swedish & Norwegian briefly there are many more similarities with English in terms of structure & context, than there are with Maltese. Whole sentences in English are often 1 or 2 words in Maltese. I’m late 20’s now and I find myself “thinking in English” now more than “Thinking in Maltese”, but whenever I return to Malta this reverses & I find myself thinking in Maltese, does this make sense?
I’m receptive bilingual and understand and can read Maltese but can’t express, which is frustrating for me & My Maltese relatives who I understand but can’t fully communicate with.I’m not a linguist and have no education in Linguistics, but It would be interesting to hear the opinion of a person with education in Linguistics. What I do know is Maltese is a semitic based language (like Arabic) whereas English is a Germanic based language.
The ones Ive spoken with are utterly fluent, even with an english accent.
bad take.
I like it orraajjjbiii
A shit take by a maltese person on this sub? not surprising. most maltese have decent english, and a significant portion especially those who went to university have excellent english, especially in comparison to our maltese grammatical skills. This simply isnt true.