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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/80379| Title: | Our second language |
| Authors: | Welsh, A. N. |
| Keywords: | Malta -- Languages Language policy -- Malta English language -- Malta Second language acquisition English language -- Dictionaries Maltese language -- History Vassalli, Mikiel Anton, 1764-1829 Semitic languages Esperanto |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Qrendi : Soċjetà Mużikali Santa Marija |
| Citation: | Welsh, A. N. (2019). Our second language. Festa titulari ta' Santa Marija, [Qrendi] 2019, 131. |
| Abstract: | It would make life much easier if we all spoke in the same way. No foreign languages to learn, no translations, easy communication with anyone in the world. This is no new idea - before the War 'Esperanto' was devised and people started learning it. Simple, easy to master, and with no difficult grammar or idioms. The War put paid to its development. In Malta our first national language, Maltese, is regarded as defining our culture, our Maltese heritage, and should be preserved and cherished. However it is a Semitic language, understandable in Arabic countries but not in Europe to which we now look. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/80379 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melitensia works - ERCL&LPL |
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