Showing posts with label Maltese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maltese. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 December 2011

How to Speak Maltese in Just 30 Seconds!

Maltese (or 'Malti' to be more accurate) is a language with roots in Arabic mixed with Sicilian/Italian and as such is almost completely incomprehensible to a native English speaker like myself.  Just about everybody here speaks English, so unless you feel some kind of preternatural yearning to devote years of your life to studying a difficult language known to effectively 0% of the global population, I would advise sticking to the following:

"Bongu" (pronounced bonjo)  means 'good morning;
"Allrrrright!?"  means 'hello, how are you?'; and
"Mela!" works for just about any conversational interjection you care to make.

Mela.

Speak Maltese here.