> Tunisians and Algerians can understand Maltese quite well. Not in my experience. Not at all actually. My experience with Arabic speakers is that they think t

> Tunisians and Algerians can understand Maltese quite well. Not in my experience. Not at all actually. My experience with Arabic speakers is that they think they're understanding when you speak Maltese, because it sounds kind of familiar, but in actual fact they're not understanding much at all. Which is not surprising after a thousand years of divergence.