Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Five stars if you are a descriptive linguist.

My copy of this book was published before 1999 and I do not know whether changes have been made, but the title is misleading. As a student of linguistics for eleven years, I believe that the book was not written for people who want to learn Maltese; it was written for linguists who wish to fit the language into its proper place among other forms of colloquial Arabic. This is the reason for complaints about its terminology. The book is excellent, but the title gives an inaccurate statement of its objective.For learning to speak Maltese, see "Beginning Maltese," also listed on this site.