We tracked down 3 of the best YouTube channels for learning Maltese, including 2 you can use for free. Our top picks right now are Learn Maltese Free, Island of Kate and Easy Languages. Every entry below is hand-checked, and the ones that teach you come first — with free options ahead of paid ones wherever they are as good.
3 resources · 2 free
The main Maltese teaching channel — vocabulary, pronunciation, and mela.
About this tool →Beginner lessons on adjectives, feelings, place names and the untranslatable discourse particles Maltese runs on. Maltese is a Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet with heavy Italian and English borrowing, so pronunciation rules that look familiar are not — the town-names video earns its place.
Maltese language and life, from someone who moved there and learned it.
About this tool →A learner-turned-speaker making videos about Maltese words, culture and the experience of picking the language up. Useful as a second perspective and for motivation; not a course.
Street interviews with dual subtitles, produced in dozens of languages.
About this tool →A franchise of local producers filming unscripted street interviews, each episode subtitled in the target language and English, which is the closest free thing to hearing how people genuinely speak. All YouTube episodes are free; membership adds transcripts, vocabulary lists and exercises. Real-speed unscripted speech is hard early on — start with the slower 'Super Easy' episodes if you are below B1.
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