{"id":8244,"date":"2021-07-19T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T10:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/?p=8244"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:02:43","slug":"quando-insegni-il-siciliano-ad-uno-straniero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/quando-insegni-il-siciliano-ad-uno-straniero\/","title":{"rendered":"When you teach Sicilian to a foreigner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Sicilian dialect is a regional language recognised by UNESCO with the status of the mother tongue, which is why the Sicilians are described as bilingual, and is ranked among the \"vulnerable\" European languages.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe goal of this column is to share experiences related to Sicilian culture, encouraging reflection and sharing.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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WHEN YOU TEACH SICILIAN TO A FOREIGNER<\/strong>
by Giuseppe Raciti<\/em><\/p>

The Sicilian dialect for Sicilians is worth more than the Italian language, in short, for them it is THE LANGUAGE. And a Sicilian like me who has lived four years abroad take it with them as an asset to pass on, to be made known to those who are not Sicilian.<\/p>

I remember that when I went to work in an interpreting department three years ago I taught an Egyptian gentleman some expressions typical of my dialect, I taught him so well that in the morning when he arrived at the office instead of saying \"GUTEN MORGEN\" (we spoke in German) he would say to me: \u201cCIAO 'MBARE\u201d.
An interpreting colleague who was Tunisian, on the other hand, really lived in Sicily for a year and when we worked together he sometimes came up with the expression \"CAM'A FARI?\" A Georgian friend of mine, on the other hand, loved the word \u201cAPPIDDAVERU\u201d. When together we were surprised by something I always said to her \"Katia, APPIDDAVERU?\" and she replied with conviction \"APPIDDAVERU!\" To a Kazakh classmate of mine, on the other hand, when we saw that something was not right, I said to him \u201cSEMU PESSI\u201d and he replied \u201cSEMU PESSI\u201d but he never knew the meaning of this dialect expression.<\/p>

As always, at the end of everything there were always friends and colleagues who greeted me when we went away saying \"Hello Mafiusu!\", But that is known to be part of our DNA and nobody takes it away from us.<\/p>

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MBARE: Amico
CAM\u2019A FARI?: What should we do?
APPIDDAVERU!: Really!
SEMU PESSI: We are lost<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cSemu pessi\u201d \u00e8 il sarcasmo siciliano: quando le cose vanno male, preferiamo riderci su.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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You are Sicilian if you can see everything in color when there's only black<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Quando insegni il siciliano ad uno straniero. Voci Siciliane Il dialetto siciliano \u00e8 una lingua regionale riconosciuta dall\u2019UNESCO con lo status di lingua madre, motivo per cui i siciliani sono descritti come bilingui, ed \u00e8 classificata tra le lingue europee \u201cvulnerabili\u201d. L\u2019obiettivo di questa rubrica \u00e8 condividere esperienze legate alla cultura siciliana, incoraggiando la riflessione […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voci-siciliane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11447,"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions\/11447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minchia.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}