maltese lesson 2.wmv

[JimmiJam86]

sounds like an arabic-italian remix-language :D

[zmuscat1]

brilliant



[JoeDemiJemiforever]

hey i'm Maltese and there are a lot of SILLY spelling mistakes in there. Key word: SILLY!!!

[ibrahim944]

omg! very similar to Arabic!

i'm Arab and i can understand 80% of what he said.

[ssrrapper]

@ibrahim944

It's like a blend of Arabic and Italian. It reminds me of Romanian - which to me seems like half Italian, half Russian.

[VraiDiouf]

@ibrahim944 it is in the same language family I think with Arabic.

[TheMehdieval]

i'm Algerian and i understand maltese without learning it.

[TheGJB3]

Innutajt xi żbalji ortografiċi li tista' tevitahom: grazzi ħaFna, taJba, dan hu S-sinjur Galea. Fil-Malti ma nużawx 'sinjurina' imma kulħadd jgħid 'sinjorina'.

[KARIM8960]

just like tunisian

[juggalopaul69]

my moms last name is galea :)

[rainbowgirl85]

@juggalopaul69 also my mother last name is Galea! :D

[fou281]

salam :)

[Hvanadalshnjukurhavn]

(continuation) common speech by "caw", which is italian-based. the semantics and phonology, although different a bit, looks like faroese!

hails from iceland

[Hvanadalshnjukurhavn]

well maltese is a semitic language thts has been ... disturbed by other languages from europe and around. i see arabic, italian, spanish, greek, french, finnish, lithuanian and albanian influences. english has taken a huge, too huge place as well, we see it from expressions that maltese youth now uses. something interresting also about these younger generations is that the use of "bonswa" which is also good evening in haitian creole (!!!) and looks like "bonsoir" in french, has been replaced in

[eyeofarose]

spelling mistake: ħafna ;)



[diamondmcnamara]

m'hemm l-ebda alla, u jiena profeta tiegħu

[istiiizzz]

arab :

aywa

la

eza ajabak

tayba

al layl at-tayyeb (tastful night)

narak ghada(N) ghadan

kif inti (female)

hada houw(a) as - sanyour

heydi hiy(a) as -sanyoura

[JubanTeyman24]

In Arabic, we say "Aywa" for Yes, "La" for No. "Narak Ghada" (although the "gh" in Arabic is pronounced like a guttural R) ghada actually means "tomorrow" in Arabic as well. And "Narak" is the plural "We" as in "We shall see you tomorrow."

Amazing! I assume Maltese is practically a little more than half of the Arabic language.

[lillypopx2l]

Grazzi haffna!!! I hope to be able to speak it fluent one day!! :)

[Azzegrello]

giovannarosa1010 ............... I'm Libyan, i visited Malta 3 times, it's wonderful island, Libyans looooooove it, Malta is our nieghbour, why dont u go to malta???? it's ur country.....azzegrello@yah00.c­0m

[DJRTMUM]

The history of the Maltese language is that it is a Latin alphabet base version of arabic, however being a main port between Northern Africa and Europe, has adopted many different words and phrases from another countries. Hope this helps

[giovannarosa1010]

I am Maltese, but my family left for the US in 1950. I can understand pretty well, but it is harder to think of the words to speak. I don't live near any Maltese here so it's hard to practice. Thanks so much for helping all of us who would like to learn. My family came from Rabat. My Dad from Sliema. Thank you again. I am looking forward to more video's.

[dragonster82]

Thanks for the help!!!

[AquarianWidow]

My dad is half Maltese :) Thanks for the help x

[FAWZI2TUNISIA]

it 's like our tunisian arabic

[Bettybooprocks07]

thats not how you right grazzi -.-"

*hafna

[Bettybooprocks07]

thats not how you right grazzi -.-"

[explorerworld09]

This is mixed of Arabic and Italian,

Maltese will be very easy for me, it has so many Arabic words

Thank you,

[yvettebuttigieg]

l-idea ta' dan il-vidjo hija tajba pero fih xi zbalji tal-ortografija.... this video is good but it contains spelling mistakes

[palestinekingmusic]

It's soooo similar to Arabic but there are a few words that r kind of between Italian and Dutch...pretty cool

[MrVidaRoja]

malti fih hafna ta ' kliem gharabi

Maltese language contains many Arabic words.

[OriginalNoys]

il-G ta' "Grazzi" minghajr tikka, u "haffna" suppost tinkiteb: 'HAFNA'!

[AlmightyJesus]

a lot of italian and french influenced words

[BroadwayG]

Thanks for these lessons. I am Maltese-Italian-American here in Florida. The few Maltese relatives still around use "sahha."

[restrictednick]

ahjar tikteb sew bil malti ta... mhux imbad ificcuha fid-dizzjunarju u jsibuha hazina il-kelma li giet miktuba... ehhhh il bqijja mhux hazin

[minmic144]

ghandek zballlllll : O haffna hazina HAFNA tigi ; )

[Ahkayix]

Iva, More vids Jekk joghgbok. Grazzi :] I hope to be fluent one day

[thejtoxics]

It sounds like a mixture between arabic, italian, and french :o

[remigteam]

@thejtoxics English,arabic,italian 

[minmic144]

@thejtoxics and in real it is arabic italian and french mixed up ;)

[Conway79]

So is 'għ' always silent?

[minmic144]

@Conway79 yes

[TheMarmite09]

it descended from arabic.. its 90% arabic

[oceaneer10]

why the italian words are so dominating?

[cbalducc]

I'm from the United States. Maltese sounds like a cross between Italian and Arabic to me. God bless.

[xCarxMellax]

thanks for making these! I'm half maltese and my mom never taught me maltese!!! I'm so mad that I didn't learn!

[MissSarahMalta]

These are very helpful. Clear, to the point and with good time. Please do lots more!!!!

[skatey180matey]

Great help! Keep em coming

[Arabman666]

Wow, it's like a train full of Arabic words and a train of Southern European words had a head on collision.

[ajgotpowned]

@Arabman666 lol so true...

[Shanniquitie]

@Arabman666 yep, took a while to work the arab crap out of the language

[Arabman666]

@Shanniquitie

Considering that at the time other civilizations were drilling holes in each others skulls to cure the common cold, the Arabs had invented hospitals and mastered human anatomy and medicine, I wont take offense to your garbage comment.

I'm glad my ancestors took up Arabic and gave up that butchered Armo-Hebrew they developed. You should be more respectful.

[Shanniquitie]

@Arabman666 shouldnt you be blowing up a school or something? ALLAHHHHH HUAKBAAARRR

[Arabman666]

@Shanniquitie

Shouldn't you be flipping burgers at burger-king or something? Listen, you're trash, you're going to grow up to a ripe old age in poverty, and no matter what your faith is, you attitude is shitty enough to get you on the bad side of any God. You need to get a life.

[Shanniquitie]

@Arabman666 i just farted.

[Immimooza]

@Shanniquitie fuck you!

[MessaoudiMehdi]

malteste i close to tunisian ..

but in tunisians there are less italian and eglish word

more french ..and berber word also

[TheOneNextToYa]

Most of it is plain Arabic I was amazed that I actually could understand all the words.....Great vid...thnx

[rubypipa]

this is fantastic thank you i have trawled the internet for some thing like this

if only i could load these lessons on to my phone/mp3 player so i could learn while i was out and at work

Grazzi Haffna

Lance Manchester U.K

[ChrisBorg88]

Ghandek Grazzi miktuba bil Ġ minflok G !!! :/

[saarhxx]

What is I am Miss Galea in maltese?

google translate sais ' I'm Sinjurina Galea'

[carbonese86]

@saarhxx = jiena miss galea

[NekoUrsula]

the hafna is spelled wrongly...there's a double 'f'

[jadlea]

Maltese is the most beautiful language.

[josephslb]

hafna not haffna

[TheHuSkY1984]

Thanks guys for your comments i will try to make some more when i can

[3n3rg14]

well done :)

[SummonedHell]

thanks for the video ;)

[morocojin]

it's almost the same as my mother tongue !

im from tangier , Morocco and we have soo many things in common .

i think it's due to andalus era .

keep it up

[freakgurk90210]

i really like this.. can u upload more pleasE?

[thrashman015]

I have a friend that lives In malta Seems Interesting xD

[NellaElla2]

thank you for for help xD

[ofelirris]

Hello! very useful vid, good job!

I was wondering if you could help me with this... I want to get a tattoo that says:

am I dreaming?

But i want to try it in different languages... so if you could please translate it for me to maltese i would appreciate it a lot.

Thanks!

[TheChris0130]

@ofelirris that would be Jien qed nohlom ?

[ofelirris]

thank you! : )

[TheHuSkY1984]

just a slight correction, it is the right translation but the "h" in nohlom is a "ħ" not a "h" cuz like that will sound different! so its " Jien qed noħlom?"

[ofelirris]

@TheHuSkY1984

OK. Thanks!

: )

[nintendolad92]

im part aussie but my nana and nunile were born in malta so im kinda of a mix bread too

[MaRkThEfUcKInDeVil]

is a kind of mix between italian and arab...it seems very difficult learning it

[TheHuSkY1984]

hay guys!!

thanks for your comments!! i really appreciate that you like my video clips!

i just added 2 more, so i hope that you enjoy them!

[denmans64]

More please...!

[deans12321]

these lessons are great...

any chance of some more?