Unless they changed it in the past year, it indeed is also in Spanish.

My experience has always been that this tends to be related more to education rather than nationality. You hear the French stereotype being touted incessantly, yet some of the most polite and friendliest people I’ve met were French tourists, speaking English, and wanting to learn how to say ‘hello’, ‘thank you’ and ‘bye’ in Maltese nonetheless.

Quite the same with everyone really.

But at least we try to communicate in English one way or another or even in other languages when we meet foreigners. So let us not slam the Maltese in this matter as well.

Typically Mediterranean, you mean. Maltese people have the same attitude, without speaking a language that is widely spoken elsewhere.

Typical Spanish.

A professor accompanying his students on a visit to Malta and like most Spanish students they can’t communicate in English. So instead of encouraging his country to teach English at school he complains to el Pais.

And as far as I know most of the literature found at the MTA is also in Spanish.

Call it a medley of monuments and iconography, from the one tal-haddiema bil-patata barra to the presepju, with Mintoff’s portrait, the one every club had to have, waving at no one in particular.

They just cannot synthesize.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/08/17/opinion/1376762705_331146.html

I just posted this on francodebono’s blog, but he is refusing to upload it:

Ma nafx ghalfejn din il-hdura kollha kontra s-sinjura daphne caruana galizia. ma nistax nifhem ghalfejn qed tikteb hekk dalghodu franco kontrija? ghalfejn? x’ghamlitlek? taqbadx ma nies? halliha bi kwieta.

Franco, daphne dejjem kitbet il-verita fuq il-blogg taghha, ma nistax nifhem ghalfejn bniedem li suppost jghid li hu intelligenti qed jobzoq il-hdura fuq daphne hekk b’dal-mod.

Isma minni hu l-ezempju tal-kap tieghek u zomm il-kwiet u kun posittiv. tibqax tkun daqshekk negattiv u taqbad ma daphne. erhila kwieta.

Il-vittma hija daphne, huwa ovvju li intom qed taqbdu maghha u tipprovokawa b’dan it-tip ta’ qlajjiet u gideb fil-konfront taghha. xi trida taghmel mhux ovvja li trid tirribatti?

u hag’ohra ma nistax nifhem ghalfejn kullhadd jikteb b’mod anonimu u kodard, iktbu b’isimkom vera jekk mintomx kodardi. ara daphne b’isima tikteb

Mark Demicoli
St. Julians

How many Mintoff monuments does this country need? Isn’t one enough?

I agree. The mentality of most Maltese people is vote = favour or promise and vice-versa.

What’s worse is that the present incumbent has introduced a new slant – reward of “traitors”. So now being unfaithful to your supposed “principles” has become a virtue, turning any idea of ethics upside down.

The hurtful truth is that many people of supposed intelligence and a certain standard of education and moral behaviour where taken in completely by a sham.