Comments on: My Maltese http://carlamaree.com/blog/my-maltese/ ThinkaThought - A Mess Called My Mind Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:39:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stefan Z Camilleri http://carlamaree.com/blog/my-maltese/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Stefan Z Camilleri Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:10:28 +0000 http://carlamaree.com/?p=316#comment-55 Seriously though, you make a valid point. It's the mix of the languages that is more infuriating. Yet personally, I find that a person who was born in Malta and bred here for the larger part of their life, should at least be able to speak some Maltese. Fluency in a language though is a different matter. After all, we are only fluent in that which we choose are our preferred language. So it really makes no difference I guess, as long as you're understood. Mhux hekk imma missUs? :) Seriously though, you make a valid point. It’s the mix of the languages that is more infuriating. Yet personally, I find that a person who was born in Malta and bred here for the larger part of their life, should at least be able to speak some Maltese.

Fluency in a language though is a different matter. After all, we are only fluent in that which we choose are our preferred language. So it really makes no difference I guess, as long as you’re understood.

Mhux hekk imma missUs? :)

]]> By: Stefan Z Camilleri http://carlamaree.com/blog/my-maltese/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Stefan Z Camilleri Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:04:47 +0000 http://carlamaree.com/?p=316#comment-54 Madonna, vera, these people vera jdejjquni lili as well :P hehehe Madonna, vera, these people vera jdejjquni lili as well :P hehehe

]]> By: Tom http://carlamaree.com/blog/my-maltese/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Tom Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:49:38 +0000 http://carlamaree.com/?p=316#comment-51 After years of travels and learning new languages, I strongly believe that languages are meant to *communicate*,not to divide people. Malta might be a particular environment because of the massive usage of the English language, still mocking someone for his language, his accent, ... it's not just impolite but also says a lot of the people doing this, people not interested to communicate and share ideas, feelings, ... but to feel superior than others. To say honestly this attitude seems to be a constant of English-speaking countries, where the language is mostly mnemonic. Compare with the different level of knowledge required by the normal people of the official language and the local dialects in China or Japan, for instance, or of the ex Soviet Union. And about Japan: http://www.javno.com/en-world/japan-pm-faces-reading-test-as-popularity-sags_226060 After years of travels and learning new languages, I strongly believe that languages are meant to *communicate*,not to divide people.
Malta might be a particular environment because of the massive usage of the English language, still mocking someone for his language, his accent, … it’s not just impolite but also says a lot of the people doing this, people not interested to communicate and share ideas, feelings, … but to feel superior than others. To say honestly this attitude seems to be a constant of English-speaking countries, where the language is mostly mnemonic. Compare with the different level of knowledge required by the normal people of the official language and the local dialects in China or Japan, for instance, or of the ex Soviet Union.
And about Japan: http://www.javno.com/en-world/japan-pm-faces-reading-test-as-popularity-sags_226060

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