Not only they speak English with a Maltese accent, they also change the grammar and vocabulary. For instance, normal Maltese greeting is not "hello" nor "hi", it's "allright?" - at first I though I'm obliged to answer this question and respond with a similar one, now I know this question doesn't need an answer. Also, asking different questions: an English person would say: "Do you want...?" or "Do you know...?"; Maltese person says: "You want...?", "You know?" - they simplified asking, so it's quicker.
They have a funny habit of using the word "even" - in English you can say for example "even the Maltese speak English", to express your astonishment; you can use it also to say that some things are the same: "all Maltese are even". Maltese use this word as an equivalent to "as well" or "the same", but they use it differently. For example when a Maltese person says "even me", it means "it's the same with me".
Another thing is using Maltese words in a sentence. They usually can't say an English sentence without putting in some Maltese words. A normal example of a sentence would be: "Mela, I can't help you gbin, Alla, I have other things to do." (mela = so, gbin = bro, Alla = God); or even "Allright, habib, me tajjeb hafna today" (habib = friend, tajjeb hafna = very good).
Second thing I'd like to write to you today is Maltese mentality. From what I've observed, most Maltese act like a village-men (or as we say in Poland, "małomiasteczkowi" - small town inhabitants): they treat they own neighbourhood as the centre of the world, and when a stranger comes, they act xenophobic. Don't understand me badly: I'm some kind of a xenophobe myself, but I try not to have prejudices towards strangers until I actually get to know them. Most Maltese are racist as well: people they really don't like are Arabs and Blacks, also they act with prejudices towards them. They justify their racism by saying that Arabs come to Malta to steal, kill, rape and just act violently towards Maltese; one of my Maltese friends told me, that 2/3 of Maltese prisons are inhabitated by Arabic people! The Blacks on the other hand, come to Malta because they run away from their countries (mostly Libya, but other countries as well); most of them are on a very low level of education, so they not only don't know how to read and write, they also sometimes don't speak English and behave badly. Malta has a big problem with illegal immigration, and most illegals are Black. As I wrote once, they usually do rotten or light jobs - they're on the bottom of the social ladder.
They used the parking space really good, didn't they?
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