ITALIAN, FOR SURE | Conversations with Italians in Italy About Italian Culture
Jul 1, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
From the high-paced streets of Milan to the high-speed-train-less tracks of Sicily, we are navigating through Italy and its regional differences. In this episode of ITALIAN, FOR SURE, we also tackle…
Samuele BruscaGuestCatrin SkaperdasHost
Because compared to other dialects, mine is not really a dialect, but it's a regional language, just like Neapolitan.
Like you, I wouldn't, even, even if I'm learning Italian, I wouldn't be able to understand you if you're speaking Sicilian.
No, it's impossible because, uh, what makes a regional language a regional language and makes it different from a dialect, let's say, is that the grammar also changes.
So not only do you have other words, completely different words, imagine the word calzetta, for example.
And then you have this, um, cool thing, uh, which is actually one of the reasons why most Sicilian, most, uh, southern people, let's say, might get the conditionals wrong, which is a tense that we, we do have and we so s- so much struggle with sometimes.
Um, and Sicilians are kind of justified for it because in their own dialect, you have two conjunctives and, uh, you don't use the form conjunctive and conditional, conditionals.
Because compared to other dialects, mine is not really a dialect, but it's a regional language, just like Neapolitan.
Like you, I wouldn't, even, even if I'm learning Italian, I wouldn't be able to understand you if you're speaking Sicilian.
No, it's impossible because, uh, what makes a regional language a regional language and makes it different from a dialect, let's say, is that the grammar also changes.
So not only do you have other words, completely different words, imagine the word calzetta, for example.
And then you have this, um, cool thing, uh, which is actually one of the reasons why most Sicilian, most, uh, southern people, let's say, might get the conditionals wrong, which is a tense that we, we do have and we so s- so much struggle with sometimes.
Um, and Sicilians are kind of justified for it because in their own dialect, you have two conjunctives and, uh, you don't use the form conjunctive and conditional, conditionals.
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