Can Arabic Speakers Understand Maltese?

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In this video I check how well native speakers of Arabic can understand the Maltese language. The results are fascinating to witness!

Special thanks to Christianne Portelli for her Maltese samples. Check out her channel on Youtube:

And special thanks to Maryam from Egypt, Farouk from Morocco, and Rostom from Tunisia for participating and appearing in the video!

Maltese monologue transcript:

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  • @ttalgimint says:

    oh maltese… puppy?

  • @pseudoNAME1979 says:

    Ah, I always get excited when you post a video about Arabic, Paul. Your videos are the reason I have started learning the language.

  • @mlgdigimon says:

    as a libyan who speaks the libyan dialectal form of arabic we can for sure comunicate pretty well as long as the ideas are basic, since the simple words are of arabic origin, and i think most other arabs can understand them somewhat well since the dialect they come from is somewhat central.

    • @mlgdigimon says:

      @@HOXHOXHOX dude what are you talking about? i already live in my country but i can live where ever i want pal.

  • @AduckButSpain says:

    Answer: Only a third of the vocabulary ORIGINATED from Maghrebi Arabic, Libyans and Tunisians may understand up to 40% in certain conversions.

  • @isaacc7 says:

    This has nothing to do with this video but I hope I’m early enough to get your attention. When I was in Hungry I talked to multiple people about their language. I asked if knowing Hungarian helped learning any other languages and they said Korean! In the time since I was there I talked to a Korean and they said the same thing. What in the world is that about? What similarities could there possibly be?

  • @jaghaynes says:

    Maltese here, Arabs can easily understand us, especaially Lebanese Arabs (we have a similar “cadance” when speaking). On the other hand its almost impossible for us to understand Arabic other than catching a word here and there

  • @hoangkimviet8545 says:

    Alternative title: Can Arabic speakers understand the Italian dialect of Arabic?

  • @marsoff9898 says:

    I was studying Maltese grammar, I hope one day he redoes Maltese. No rush here.

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