Maltese (Teach Yourself) |
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Joseph Aquilina
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Pages: 240 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0340397373
Pub: Teach Yourself Books
Pub date: 1986-06-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 498724
Reader Reviews:
Poor book (5/6 people found this helpful)
This book is very poor. In the first place, one cannot learn Maltese without hearing the language - it needs audio. Secondly, this is a gramar book and not a coursebook, and it is very dry and user-unfriendly. It will not tell you how to order that cup of coffee when you arrive in Malta.
Maltese courses are not easy to find. If you read German, the best is Kauderwelch's Maltesissch with cassette. There is also Beginners Maltese with 2 cassettes, although moist of the audio is just single words.
But this Teach Yourself is by far the worst book in that series, which is otherwise exvellent.
Maltese Cross (11/11 people found this helpful)
This must be the worst book in the "Teach Yourself" language series. It must be almost impossible for anyone to learn Maltese from this book. For example: There is no vocabulary listed at the back. There are no lists of vocabulary associated with each chapter. There are no lists of common things such as numbers, days of the week, etc. (numbers are written in the form of a paragraph on P119 - difficult to follow and useless as an aid to memorizing). There are no verb tables. The guide to pronunciation lists unhelpful advice as "unvoiced rolled alveolar; voiced labiodental fricative" and so on. The only helpful tips are "orthographic" notes on the letters h and "gh".
It is difficult to know why it is still in print. The usual high standard of TY language books is badly let down by this book.
not very good (9/11 people found this helpful)
Not a very good course. My wife and sister-in-law have tried using this course and they found it very difficult. If you want to learn Maltese, I suggest that you purchase Merhba 2 - Maltese Language Conversation Course.
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