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A study done by the National Statistics Office shows that persons aged 15-64 are overall more proficient in speaking and using English than they are Maltese, the nation’s mother tongue.
The study showed how 96% of Maltese aged 15-64 were proficient in English, whilst 90.4% of Maltese aged 15 to 64 were proficient in Maltese.
This means that even though there is a large amount of people who are proficient in Maltese, there are still more who are better and more comfortable in English.
It was also revealed that a whopping 62% of those aged between 15-64 were proficient in Italian, it is thought that the older generation is mainly the reason for this stat.
Other languages such as French, German, Spanish and Arabic have all joined the group of most commonly proficient languages in Malta.
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