Ich fand diese Videos von arabisch sprechenden Menschen, die versuchten, Maltesisch zu verstehen, und sie scheinen fast alles zu verstehen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1dydrn4_fw&t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3v3iatemw & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xvgugazazswa).
Verstehen dann die Menschen in Malta auch Arabisch?
Can Maltese speakers understand Arabic?
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Arabs are used to the different Arabic dialects + the standard, and possibly other European languages that Maltese has borrowed words from.
The Maltese, for the most part, have never studied Arabic and have never had anything to do with it. So they’re less likely to understand anything other than some very basic conversation.
I have Arabic speaking friends and if they speak slowly and clearly I can make out some words and phrases and sometimes get the jist of some sentences.
But if they’re speaking at a normal speed between them no chance.
No. They don’t understand us either. They pretend to.
They can understand, we can only understand numbers
Lebanese yes
The short answer is no. The long answer is: depends on which Arabic and which elements of it. There isn’t just one Arabic.
Very small bits here and there if they speak slowly. Older generations used to have Arabic in their school curriculum back in the mintoff days
I met a Lebanese family once and could follow what they were saying.
The vast majority of the vocab is Romance, especially when speaking about scientific, phycological, medical, legislative and technological terms, and nouns are almost all Italian/Sicilian. So, No. Just the numbers.
Tunisian dialect is the easiest to understand especially from Sfax. Arabic from the Quran is hard to follow.
Maltese is mostly Arabic, just written with alphabet
When I was a kid living in NYC we had friends who were Palestinian. When we had family visiting, our Palestinian friends would always invite our family for dinner. I remember every time that my mom would warn my uncles and aunts to be very what they said in Maltese as our friends could understand almost everything we said. However when we heard them speak we could only pick up bits and pieces here and there.
I just had a talk about it with an arab who was laughing his ass off when I mentioned „Maltese Language“ which he said is completely an arabic language with some local extra words added. Not sure HOW true it is but locals have some kind of arab-phobia and are collectively trying to ignore their very arab roots claiming they are italian, if not even british 😀
No lmao. Some words here and there but that’s it.
No – they are asymmetrically intelligible. Arab speakers understand us almost completely whilst we can only pick a word here or there. Same thing with Dutch speakers understanding Afrikaans.
Maybe a word or 2 every sentence but usually no
Tunisian and Lebanese. Not everything, but there are some words which sound common