Looking for a good Maltese language text

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Antoinette Camilleri: Merħba Bik Welcome to a course in Maltese for foreigners with CD (Pubblikazzjoni Colour Image - Mġarr, Malta) ISBN 99909-84-02-6

Lydia Sciriha: Beginning Maltese with 2 CDs (University of Malta) ISBN 978-99957-20-07-0

Joseph Aquilina: Concise Maltese-English English-Maltese Dictionary (Midsea Books Ltd.) ISBN 99932-7-070-9

Hi rg4784,

Antoinette Camilleri: Merħba Bik
to me, not really helpful. The book itself doesn’t have a key, nearly no English translations, not much English explanation. In short: you need a teacher beside.

Lydia Sciriha: Beginning Maltese and Continuing Maltese are ok. The only thing I can’t stand is the beeping sound on the CD, between words and sentences.

Joseph Aquilina: Concise Maltese-English English-Maltese Dictionary is ok. Apart from the size and weight I prefer the original version of it.

For self-studies I recommend: “Learn Maltese, why not?” Joseph Vella, as printed book or to download: http://www.ebook3000.com/Learn-Maltese- … 4055.html. All explanations in English. Al Maltese sentences translated. There is a key to all exercises.

As you know German I do recommend this, a very, very dry grammar textbook. Very helpful for the grammar:
Ambros, Arne A.: Bonġornu, kif int? Einführung in die maltesische Sprache., Wiesbaden: Reichert 1998, ISBN 3-89500-085-X
Ambros, Arne A.:Bonġornu, kif int? Einführung in die maltesische Sprache. Schlüssel und Wörterverzeichnis., Wiesbaden: Reichert 2006, ISBN 3-89500-534-7

Dictionary in German: Moser, Manfred: Malti-Ġermaniż – Dizzjunarju kbir / Deutsch-Maltesisch – Großes Wörterbuch. Unter Mitw. von Sharon Meyer und Joe Felice-Pace. – Wiesbaden: Reichert 2005, ISBN 3-89500-468-5;

Dictionary in German:
Ohk, K.: Kauderwelsch Band 117. Maltesisch. Wort für Wort., Bielefeld: Reise Know-How Verlag Rump 2001, ISBN 3-89416-568-5.  This is, together with the CD a very good, little book for beginners, with some grammar and useful sentences.

Dictionary in German: Dizzjunarju: Malti-Germaniz, Brigitte Ohk, Grima Print., 1999, ISBN 999320000X, 9789993200000, 407 pages. And vice versa: Dizzjunarju: -Germaniz-Malti. The special thing with those two Dictionaries are the very short and basic sentences and expressions given to most of the words.

The CDs EuroTalk, TalkNow! Tghallem il-Malti. Different levels.

Just to listen to:
http://www.campusfm.um.edu.mt/pages/web … m#series_2

Tina

Thanks very much for everyone's thoughtful recommendations!  I'll look at where I can pick some of these up here in the US or order them online. 

Ich hatte nie gedacht, deutsche Buecher zu kaufen.  Das Buch von Ambros scheint mir besonders gut.

Hi again rg4784,

Maybe not really for beginners, but who knows, there are many different methods to learn a language.

I can recommend the book:
Trevor Zahra, Il-Ħajja Sigrieta tan-Nanna Ġenoveffa
http://www.trevorzahra.com/kotba/ghall- … -genoveffa

Originally written in Maltese, however Ġenoveffa has been translated into English.
I do "read" it (very very slowly) simultaneously.
Trevor Zahra (Trans. Rose Marie Caruana): The Secret Life of Nanna Ġenoveffa, Merlin Publishers, 2011, 188 pp.

Here an article out of the TOM: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/vi … eve.386523

There you find the sentence: At times the translation is too literal …… .For Maltese learners not really a disadvantage ;-)))

Tina