Maltese (Teach Yourself)

by Joseph Aquilina

Book Overview

Functional & fun, this course offers full pronunciation, guides, grammar summaries, dialogues, cultural notes, vocabulary charts, & irregular verb tables This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340058056
• ISBN13: 9780340058053
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great for Linguists

I greatly enjoyed this book on Maltese. The book was arranged according to grammatical concepts, such as nouns, verbs, etc, which I liked. The book uses linguistic terms to explain the pronunciation of the alphabet, and all throughout: So beware if you are not heavily versed in linguistics. I also took note that this book is more of a reference grammar than a text; there was not much practise after a concept was explained. I recommend this book for anyone interested in an overall thorough review of Maltese.

Five stars if you are a descriptive linguist.

My copy of this book was published before 1999 and I do not know whether changes have been made, but the title is misleading. As a student of linguistics for eleven years, I believe that the book was not written for people who want to learn Maltese; it was written for linguists who wish to fit the language into its proper place among other forms of colloquial Arabic. This is the reason for complaints about its terminology. The book is excellent, but the title gives an inaccurate statement of its objective. For learning to speak Maltese, see "Beginning Maltese," also listed on this site.