A video uploaded to TikTok has half-Maltese Kate testing her fully Irish friend Ella’s ability at pronouncing Maltese town names.
Kate’s mother is Maltese, and she takes the opportunity to test just how difficult it is for non-locals to say the names of our island’s towns.
It starts out pretty good, with Ella managing to say Birżebbuġa and Cospicua relatively close to their original pronunciation – albeit with some misplaced letters here and there.
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Gżira however ends up missing the ‘ż’, and well, unfortunately for Siġġiewi, it becomes ‘Segway’. Żebbuġ and Għajn Tuffieħa also suffer some pronunciation issues, but it was all done in good fun!
Have you ever tried this with your foreign friends?
@katherine.neave Maltese towns with @el #maltese #malteseslanguage #malta #ghajntuffieha #siggiewi #birzebbuga
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