Is one of your parents Maltese? Parents have a HUGE responsibility to teach the language to their children too! Maltese for Maltese syllabus is not meant for NON - native speakers! It is like advanced english, where you are supposed to ALREADY know english well enough that you can focus on literature and harder stuff.

The problem here is that most are semilingual. Even in this case, her English is not as perfect as that of a native British.

I didn’t catch the context exactly. Is the girl Maltese and what schooling context is she speaking about? State? Church? private?

Sfortunatament hemm tfal u studenti fuq x xaqliba l ohra, li l Malti huwa l lingwa li jitkellmu u jippreferu. Dawn it tfal ukoll sabu ostakli kbar ghax l materjal provdut lilhom kien bl Ingliz u bosta suggetti kellhom rizorsi bl Ingliz biss. Il-maggoranza tas suggetti fis 6th form u l Universita jigu mghallma bl Ingliz. Allura ghal dawn t-tfal r realta kienet li kellhom jbatu ukoll u jigu mcahhda milli jkomplu jistudjaw f certu kazijiet.

Ghandna bzonn nisimighu persuni bhal dawn li mhux ghax huma 'keshin' ma jitkellmux il malti imma ghax trabbew f'sistemi (familji u skejjel) li tkellimhom bl-Ingliż u l Malti dejjem kien lingwa aljena. Il-verità hi li persuni bhal dawn tant jiġu mkasbra ghax jitkellmu bl-Ingliż li jisthu jitkellmu Bil Malti u ma jitkellmux riżultat ta dan

Bla dubju li din kienet waħda mill-konverżazzjonijiet l-iktar onesti u ġenwini li kelli waqt Top il-Full 🫶 Inħeġġiġkom issegwu l-intervista sħiha.

Kull ma riedet ġenitur wieħed ikellimha/tkellimha biss bil-Malti u l-ieħor/l-oħra tkellimha biss bl-Ingliż minn età żgħira. Dak kollox. L-iskejjel mhux se jagħmlu mirakli.

X’hasra

Dorothy Dalli

Luis Cobos

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