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Stefanu, si na grazia di Dio tu stesu, pirqui sta facienu n'a bella a rane cosa, dunni l'honuri a i siciliani a l'estero e siemu fieri pirqui parli senza vulgarita, e cu bello accente, Phil scrivanu di lingua francisa, natu in Sicilia
I am a sicilian from Acireale, I can say that you speak sicilian very well! YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING AMAZING ! You are contributing to keep our language and culture alive in the USA! NON IÈ IMPORTANTI UNNI STAI, CHIDDU CA CUNTA IÈ CHIDDU CA TI POTTI NDI LU CORI ! TU SI UN SICILIANU VERU !
A massive percentage, if not majority, of Italian-Americans are Sicilians so it's a good place to do it! I just found out about the Sicilian language a few days ago from a Sicilian-American and I think it's really cool, almost like Catalan. Most fellow Italian-Americans I meet are Sicilians. My people came from Molise. Most Italian-Americans are southern Italians and a huge swath of them are Sicilians, but I have yet to meet anyone besides my extended family from our region haha. We aren't Sicilian but our ancestors shared a kingdom with them.
His name is Campo. He is Italian. We are everywhere in the US you know :) I am half Italian. My mother's father was from Lazio Roma.( surname Budassi) and my cousin is an Iezzo. My great-grandfather was Ponziano. My Nona's surname was Virgilio.
My compliments! You speak Sicilian very well. I'm Italian and I speak a dialect / language of Southern Italy (a variety of Lucanian) quite similar to Sicilian to understand everything you said in the video. Although I am not Sicilian, I am very proud when someone who is not born and raised in Italy speaks (or learns) one of the many languages spoken in my country.
Where are you from in Lucania? Would you mind giving me a little bit of explanation about the different varieties of Lucanian? It's very difficult to find information about online.
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,,,,,,, Bravu!!! Bravu!!!,,,, parli lu sicilianu cumu mia,,,,, I sugnu di Sommatino,,,,, provincia di Caltanissetta,,,,,, supergiu' identicu,,,,, Bravu Stefanu 👏👏👏👏 ti auguro tanti belli cosi,,,,, e vita longa,,,,,, ciau e statti Beni!!!,,,,,, un'abbracciu da sicilianu, 👏👍🙋♂️
Hi Stefano, my grandparents were from Sicily and also immigrated to America. They lived in Shreveport. I am 50 years old. I want to relearn the language. Your speaking siciliano reminded me how beautiful a language it is and hearing them speak it when I was a kid. They are both gone now and so is my Mom who spoke it fluently. Any advice on how I can learn again?
Excellent ! Parasati chiaro e cabbi tutto chido che degisti ! I’m Australian, the son of Sicilian immigrants. I admire your efforts considering you are second generation American. You speak well and I understood every word. Congratulations and keep it up.
I am 100% Sicilian, speak it fluently, still speak it to this day, my parents also still speak it every day. I grew up speaking it, as my grandparents spoke no English & my parents broken English. They were the next wave of immigrants, after the USA that immigrated to Australia.
Sicilian is a beautiful language. I wish more people knew about it. I might try to learn it one day. Having studied Latin in school years ago and knowing Spanish now, I have fallen in love with Romance languages. It's crazy how each new Romance language you learn you understand so much more of the rest
Part of it is that he's not a native speaker, and is speaking very slowly and clearly. As an Italian speaker I can understand him perfectly (when normally I don't really understand spoken Sicilian). That said, it's true that Sicilian has quite a bit of Iberian influence in terms of vocabulary.
I'm a portuguese speaker and i dont understand anything he said i think italian so hard like scilian i prefer spanish i can understand and speak very good, abraços do Brasil as linguas latinas sao mt dificeis mas pra quem estuda n fica mt complicado eu n estudo nenhuma delas kkkk o espanhol eu to aprendendo meio q na marra pq tenho amigos da argentina
Tim Snowsill Back when the Crowns of Castilla y Léon (Castille and Leon) and of Aragon united to form Spain, Aragon owned Sicily via its dominion over the Kingdom of Naples. For a good ~300 years Aragonese, and after that Dpanish, power and influence would reign supreme in the South of Italy. I think this influence also was made visible in the language of the area.
Tim Snowsill that's because Sicilian has high influence from Spanish. Over 1/10 of Sicilian words came from Spanish because Sicily was once conquered by Spain.
Your Sicilian is excellent. Good job learning it. I was born in the USA to Sicilian immigrants so Sicilianu was my first language. But sadly as I get older I am losing it even though I visit Sicily to visit cousins when I can.
I'm not Sicilian but Calabrese American and it is MUCH easier to understand you than standard Italian. You are doing an amazing thing man, and you are very inspirational!
I’m the son of Sicilian immigrants and I speak Sicilian. Spoken Sicilian and Calabrian are almost identical especially the Sicilian that is spoken on the east coast of Sicily and Calabrese that is spoken on the west coast of Calabria. It’s only the narrow straight of Messina that separates the two and I’m sure that lots of travel by fishermen between the two areas has something to do with the similarities in our languages/dialects
@@Shireboyz Yes very true, although I struggle with the southern most dialect of Reggio which is much closer to Sicilian than the dialects of my family of Cosenza e Catanzaro despite them being SO close in proximity.
thank you so much for speaking slow so i was able to under stand you i miss the language so much both my parents came from Sicily small town called Caniattia and spoke it all the time but me and my siblings didn't speak it back to my parents i regret so much now that they just passed and miss hearing them speak i am determined to learn I going to go on you tube everyday and learn.
beddu cumpari ra sicilia. speru chi vai sempri a migliurari u sicilianu, chi stai parlannu già troppu beni. jo sugnu ri Santu Vitu (San Vito Lo Capo) in provincia ri Trapani e u meu sicilianu è anticchia diverso ru tò. Pero sempre siciliani semo! Un abbrazzu forti e sempri viva a Sicilia amicu meu!!!
It's wonderful to hear this language I grew up with from both parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles. As second generation American, Sicilian was the secret language my parents used at the dinner table when they didn't want us kids to know what they were saying. Looking back I wish they had taught me more. In those days my grandparents and parents were very proud to be American and American culture drove assimilation to English. I guess teaching us American kids Sicilian didn't seem practical at the time to them. So I compromised and learned some Italian since it was offered in high school.
I hear you SG that is a common story with us Sicilians here in America, you explained it well...I started a facebook group for Sicilians in America...hope you like it facebook.com/groups/776269249235219/
Good job! He speaks Sicilian as in written form, rather refined and without contractions. Some popular dialects are a bit different, for example the dialect of Palermo, maybe the most spoken, and phonetically the most complicated. He should drop the "i" before n + consonant, and some "d" should be pronounced "r" but I liked him very much.
I agree with all the comments here that he's quite easy to understand. I think that's for a few reasons. One is that he's speaking quite slowly and with very clear diction, which is not usually the way people speak in any "dialetto" (yes I know they're really languages) anywhere in Italy. Normally they're used in very informal contexts, so people speak fast and expressively, rarely in such a careful and clear way as this. Also, it sounds like he's reading a prepared text, so there are no spontaneous random surprises. It's true his accent sounds pretty accurate, especially for a 3rd generation Italian-American. But actually, being born outside Italy can sometimes be (paradoxically) an advantage for this. If you never grew up with standard Italian as your native language, but you heard your parents and grandparents speaking in their native regional language, then you pick up the sounds of that language with no interference from the pronunciation of modern standard Italian. Compare that to young Italians today in regions where the local "dialetto" has really gone out of use, for example in Turin. My cousins there only know a few words, expressions and sayings in piemontese. But they pronounce them with a very strong Italian accent, very different to how their grandparents spoke. In that region, older generations avoided speaking "dialetto" around the children because they considered it low class and didn't want to "corrupt" their Italian. As a result, they never really learned the sound of the language properly at all...
Cumpari, you are 100% dead on with everything you said. I was asked to do this speech for a news program in Sicily So I thought about it, then wrote and memorized it. And it's true, as I grew up I never heard Italian, only the Sicilian my grandparents spoke.
@@fanuzzucampo3102 thanks, I thought I was close to the mark. :) And all credit to you for how well you've learned and maintained your family's ancestral language. By the way, that wasn't a criticism at all that it seemed like you were reading (or had memorised) the speech. Just an observation, due to the lack of filler words or random digressions that would normally come up otherwise. I'm very impressed, I know in my case even though I grew up with standard Italian I can't really speak the different dialects of my parents even though I can understand them pretty well.
Hey, since she's still alive it isn't too late to at least learn a little bit from her if she wants to teach it to you. I'm sure you could find resources to teach yourself a little bit of it too
My grandparents and elders in our family spoke Sicilian a lot around us as kids. We would mostly answer them in English, but it is so strange how much of this I can understand, and when someone speaks Italian on a movie or something, I can barely understand anything they say.
He said he did grow up with Sicilian grandparents so that absolutely helps with pronunciation when you grew up constantly around a language even if you didn't speak it.
@@jhlfscThat’s what I’m thinking! It doesn’t work like that for everyone I’ve ever met as a language teacher, but most US English speakers struggle so much to achieve this kind of pronunciation in Romance languages I also concluded that this guy’s brain must’ve retained some of those childhood sounds. And was able to connect them in useful ways to specific words once he started to study Sicilian as an adult.
I come here as a 5th gen Sicilian-American, to hear my great-great grandparents' language. I wish to learn it one day. Being in America trying to learn a not so well known language looked hard to do, but if he can do it, so can I!
what the heck i'm from TX and never knew Louisiana had a large Sicilian population? how cool! i would love to hear the history of how Sicilians immigrated to Louisiana
After slavery was abolished, plantation owners from Mississippi Delta states lobbied the Italian government to convince Southern Italian migrants to move to the US to work the plantations on the cheap - sort of like indentured servitude, but it depended on the plantation. Many Sicilians went back, but a lot stayed. There were so many in New Orleans that the French Quarter became known as "Little Palermo" and in fact most properties in the Quarter are still owned by Sicilian American families. First mention of "the mafia" came from a New Orleans newspaper, and some of the largest mass lynchings in US history happened to Sicilians in Louisiana. The muffuletta sandwich is a Sicilian invention in New Orleans, based on traditional Sicilian muffuletta bread.
Nick is 100%, in fact my great grandfather and some other relatives were called to work the sugarcane fields of South Louisiana a around 1895. After a short while they heard about strawberry farming and moved into the Tangipahoa Parish Area. By 1909, 75% of the population of Independence was Sicilian and they owned about 80% of the land. This all happened in a matter of about 20 years. The Sicilians completely replaced the farming practices of the locals and just about ran the out of the area. 1915 was a high point and during that year in that little town of 1000 people the Sicilians shipped 405 rail cars of strawberries all over the U.S. and including Canada. A book was written about this area and the first Sicilians to arrive. It's quite an amazing story!
Read this in 2024, if you read it, I recommend a book put out by Pelican publishers. Bread and Respect the Italians of Louisiana. Author A V Margavio and Jerome J Salomone. I am here in Baton Rouge
It is very strange seeing in this man's face the reflection of my ancestors's and a little bit of my own ^^ (my grandparents emigrated and now I'm French without ties left in Italy or Sicily).
Speaks it very well, but missing the emotions . Learning from my grandparents the words, but I learned the unspoken Sicilian expressed through the eyes, facial expressions, and hands. Feel blessed to have been given this rare gift.
Usted necessita andar en las scuella para imparar Italiano. Si abla Espanol es facil ! Mira como jo escivo ! Es male pero usted me intiente no ? Yo vivo in Australia e mi pappa I mamma son immigrante de la Sicilia. Yo ablo Siciliano e Inglese e un pocco di Espanol. Nessesitto praticar mucho I lecion formal para avla I para avancar mi grammatica !
Oh God I'm a Portuguese-speaker and it sounds sometimes too similar There is something wrong (I know both are Romance languages, I just wasn't expecting that familiarity)
I’m Sicilian American…I’ve always felt the same. There’s something about the rhythm and emphasis of certain sounds that make both languages sound so similar.
Listen to Sicilian, then listen to a language like Igbo, and they have distinct similarities in flow and inflection. Given that I'm Italian and Igbo, I've always found this fascinating.
Come si scrive il detto in Italiano/Inglese/Siciliano? Non ho trovato su l'internet. Me piace molto imparare le lingue. Sono un giovane brasiliano ed adesso imparo l'italiano come sesta lingua
@@fanuzzucampo3102 I'm sorry. I just saw your reply now. I want to learn to speak Sicilian. My family is from Sicily as a child I grew up. In the household with this language, I can speak a little bit but not very much. And another problem is they mix the Sicilian with the Italian. I really want to be authentic with it. Would you be willing to share some links where I can do exactly what you did? I understood pretty much what you said in the video, but there's some things I don't understand Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.
@@jonminnella4157 This is my Sicilian facebook group. There are 1000's of native Sicilians who love helping other learn Sicilian. There are also Professors from the Universities in Sicilia in the group. So you can ask anything and surely some will be willing to help. And there is daily posts and dialogue in Sicilian. Ciao! facebook.com/groups/776269249235219/
Ciao tutti di più specialmente Stefano. Io penso che tu parlate la lingua Siciliano nei un molto in modo poetica in cui le parole fluide tramontà gli frase della conversazione e narrazione per durante tutto intervista. Da America ma tu insegna come a detto cose a persone usando verbi descrizione e è bene scriviti. Così in Sicilia loro gioco suonare la tarantela canzoni folclori con una friscaletta e lo modo suonare l'instrumenta è tante suonando piacevoli. Complimenti su padroneggiare la lingua di tua madre. Cin cin. Ti abbia di cura te stesso. Hai un goderemmo volta nei Sicilia. Mi sono provo a insegno io stesso ma scopra esso difficile purtroppo. Antonio Futura Tiani 3574 Ancoats Jacqui Lili Lucrezia Natalie Miles platting Nord quartiere Mcr.
@@fanuzzucampo3102 Si tan solo hubiera suficiente contenido producido en el idioma, para que pueda ser aprendido sin necesidad de vivir en su país de origen.
Santissime parole non importa dove si nasce, ma è importante conoscere le nostre origini. Sono nata e cresciuta in Germania anche i miei genitori sono emigrati, ma mai metterò da parte le mie origini. Vado ogni anno in Sicilia ha trovare i miei cari. Ho imparato a mia FIGLIA la nostra cultura è tradizioni, è fra poco divento nonna, è sicuramente parlerò al mio nipotino la nostra lingua cosi quando andremo in vacanza si sentirâ uno di noi. Unnamma scurdari mai di unni vinimmu. Un caloroso saluto dalla Germania, ma con il cuore girgintanu che batte sempre per la nostra terra Sicilia.
LMatt 88 No. I’d say it’s more like Vulgar Latin left unaffected by the Renaissance. Kind of. Of course, the characterization is a bit on the oversimple side, but that’s how Sicilian strikes me as someone who knows Italian and Classical Latin.
Ringrazio, Stefano -i genitori sono di Malta- e i dialetto da noi e profondamente siciliano. In fatto, cio' e un movimento in Malta si riferisce " i ridentisti- per ristaurare. La lingua Italiana pura e legitima a Malta. Nostra Polizia, per esempio e "PULIZIJA" puramente Siciliano! Pu li zi ya! Gratia Fratellino
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Stefanu, si na grazia di Dio tu stesu, pirqui sta facienu n'a bella a rane cosa, dunni l'honuri a i siciliani a l'estero e siemu fieri pirqui parli senza vulgarita, e cu bello accente, Phil scrivanu di lingua francisa, natu in Sicilia
I am a sicilian from Acireale, I can say that you speak sicilian very well! YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING AMAZING ! You are contributing to keep our language and culture alive in the USA!
NON IÈ IMPORTANTI UNNI STAI, CHIDDU CA CUNTA IÈ CHIDDU CA TI POTTI NDI LU CORI ! TU SI UN SICILIANU VERU !
Grazie cumpari e ti salutu!
Jacitanu testa dura...
Che beddu
A massive percentage, if not majority, of Italian-Americans are Sicilians so it's a good place to do it! I just found out about the Sicilian language a few days ago from a Sicilian-American and I think it's really cool, almost like Catalan. Most fellow Italian-Americans I meet are Sicilians. My people came from Molise. Most Italian-Americans are southern Italians and a huge swath of them are Sicilians, but I have yet to meet anyone besides my extended family from our region haha. We aren't Sicilian but our ancestors shared a kingdom with them.
sicilian native here from Catania, you're so good at speaking sicilian, I did not hear any hint of american accent in it.
I'm speachless :o
Grazie @Lena Se....un abbrazzu forti!
His name is Campo. He is Italian. We are everywhere in the US you know :) I am half Italian. My mother's father was from Lazio Roma.( surname Budassi) and my cousin is an Iezzo. My great-grandfather was Ponziano. My Nona's surname was Virgilio.
Dannie Laird Yes but was he born in Sicily?
@@linusfotograf He probably has family in living memory who are from Sicily or atleast spoke it and that helped with his pronunciation
I want to hear this person talk Sicilian
you make me very hopeful as a Louisianan sicilian who is trying to learn so i can connect to my nonna who is getting sick
My FB group is also helpful. Sorry to hear about your nonna. We also have Sicilian classes in Independence, La. Good learning!
My compliments! You speak Sicilian very well. I'm Italian and I speak a dialect / language of Southern Italy (a variety of Lucanian) quite similar to Sicilian to understand everything you said in the video. Although I am not Sicilian, I am very proud when someone who is not born and raised in Italy speaks (or learns) one of the many languages spoken in my country.
Grazie Gabriele! Un abbrazzu forti!
Where are you from in Lucania? Would you mind giving me a little bit of explanation about the different varieties of Lucanian? It's very difficult to find information about online.
I speak English and live in Florida. But I have been studying Italiano hard for hours every day for 4 months.
i'm learning german. they speak german up north.
Respect from sicily. You are a real sicilian
Knowing another romance language you can understand 90% of it
The 10% you can't understand comes from Arabic ;)
Latin
@@myradioon and Greek
@@myradioon Luckily, I am an Arab and speak a Romance language at an intermediate level.
@@myradioon actually 15% of Sicilian comes from Greek. The Arabic loanwords are just a mere 5%
How do I get involved, and send in a video because I'm a Pennsylvania Dutch speaker and would love to send in a video
Would be awesome to hear this
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,,,,,,, Bravu!!! Bravu!!!,,,, parli lu sicilianu cumu mia,,,,, I sugnu di Sommatino,,,,, provincia di Caltanissetta,,,,,, supergiu' identicu,,,,, Bravu Stefanu 👏👏👏👏 ti auguro tanti belli cosi,,,,, e vita longa,,,,,, ciau e statti Beni!!!,,,,,, un'abbracciu da sicilianu, 👏👍🙋♂️
Hi Stefano, my grandparents were from Sicily and also immigrated to America. They lived in Shreveport. I am 50 years old. I want to relearn the language. Your speaking siciliano reminded me how beautiful a language it is and hearing them speak it when I was a kid. They are both gone now and so is my Mom who spoke it fluently. Any advice on how I can learn again?
Excellent ! Parasati chiaro e cabbi tutto chido che degisti ! I’m Australian, the son of Sicilian immigrants. I admire your efforts considering you are second generation American. You speak well and I understood every word. Congratulations and keep it up.
Grazie assai e ti salutu! And thanks for the encouraging words!
How wonderful! First generation American here… so nice to hear other American born Sicilians take so much pride in our beautiful heritage.❤️
Great job. I was born in Sicily, outside of Catania. Your pronunciation is so spot on to what I spoke growing up. I miss speaking it.
Sicilian is such a beautiful language!!! I want to learn my grandparents language so bad
Joseph try this FB learning group: Sicilian Americans Learning Sicilian
facebook.com/groups/776269249235219/?ref=bookmarks
Stefanu Campo Grazie assai!!
Pregu cumpari Joseph!
Stay in sicily
I hear ya! My great grandma was full Sicilian and i have been dying to learn.
I am 100% Sicilian, speak it fluently, still speak it to this day, my parents also still speak it every day. I grew up speaking it, as my grandparents spoke no English & my parents broken English. They were the next wave of immigrants, after the USA that immigrated to Australia.
Sicilian is a beautiful language. I wish more people knew about it. I might try to learn it one day. Having studied Latin in school years ago and knowing Spanish now, I have fallen in love with Romance languages. It's crazy how each new Romance language you learn you understand so much more of the rest
Ya I could use some help I have hard time putting together
As someone who speaks Portuguese and Spanish, I find this much easier to understand than Italian. Interesting...
Part of it is that he's not a native speaker, and is speaking very slowly and clearly. As an Italian speaker I can understand him perfectly (when normally I don't really understand spoken Sicilian). That said, it's true that Sicilian has quite a bit of Iberian influence in terms of vocabulary.
Bathrobe Warrior yes definitely, the "non-native speaker" factor usually facilitates understanding, strangely enough.
I'm a portuguese speaker and i dont understand anything he said i think italian so hard like scilian i prefer spanish i can understand and speak very good, abraços do Brasil as linguas latinas sao mt dificeis mas pra quem estuda n fica mt complicado eu n estudo nenhuma delas kkkk o espanhol eu to aprendendo meio q na marra pq tenho amigos da argentina
Tim Snowsill Back when the Crowns of Castilla y Léon (Castille and Leon) and of Aragon united to form Spain, Aragon owned Sicily via its dominion over the Kingdom of Naples.
For a good ~300 years Aragonese, and after that Dpanish, power and influence would reign supreme in the South of Italy.
I think this influence also was made visible in the language of the area.
Tim Snowsill that's because Sicilian has high influence from Spanish. Over 1/10 of Sicilian words came from Spanish because Sicily was once conquered by Spain.
This is the only language my grandparents spoke, and my mothers first. Got a little emotional hearing it again. ❤️
Your Sicilian is excellent. Good job learning it. I was born in the USA to Sicilian immigrants so Sicilianu was my first language. But sadly as I get older I am losing it even though I visit Sicily to visit cousins when I can.
I love our language, country and heritage. You speak our language very well.
I'm not Sicilian but Calabrese American and it is MUCH easier to understand you than standard Italian. You are doing an amazing thing man, and you are very inspirational!
I’m the son of Sicilian immigrants and I speak Sicilian. Spoken Sicilian and Calabrian are almost identical especially the Sicilian that is spoken on the east coast of Sicily and Calabrese that is spoken on the west coast of Calabria. It’s only the narrow straight of Messina that separates the two and I’m sure that lots of travel by fishermen between the two areas has something to do with the similarities in our languages/dialects
@@Shireboyz
Yes very true, although I struggle with the southern most dialect of Reggio which is much closer to Sicilian than the dialects of my family of Cosenza e Catanzaro despite them being SO close in proximity.
thank you so much for speaking slow so i was able to under stand you i miss the language so much both my parents came from Sicily small town called Caniattia and spoke it all the time but me and my siblings didn't speak it back to my parents i regret so much now that they just passed and miss hearing them speak i am determined to learn I going to go on you tube everyday and learn.
I am Canadian, my Nona is from Sicilia. I've just started learning Italian, I find this way easier to understand. Grazie!
beddu cumpari ra sicilia. speru chi vai sempri a migliurari u sicilianu, chi stai parlannu già troppu beni. jo sugnu ri Santu Vitu (San Vito Lo Capo) in provincia ri Trapani e u meu sicilianu è anticchia diverso ru tò. Pero sempre siciliani semo! Un abbrazzu forti e sempri viva a Sicilia amicu meu!!!
Un abbrazzu forti puru a tia cumpari! Ti salutu!
It's wonderful to hear this language I grew up with from both parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles. As second generation American, Sicilian was the secret language my parents used at the dinner table when they didn't want us kids to know what they were saying. Looking back I wish they had taught me more. In those days my grandparents and parents were very proud to be American and American culture drove assimilation to English. I guess teaching us American kids Sicilian didn't seem practical at the time to them. So I compromised and learned some Italian since it was offered in high school.
I hear you SG that is a common story with us Sicilians here in America, you explained it well...I started a facebook group for Sicilians in America...hope you like it
facebook.com/groups/776269249235219/
As a portuguese speaker I could understand about 70% of this video. Interesting!
Ti salutu cumpari Victor!
Good job! He speaks Sicilian as in written form, rather refined and without contractions. Some popular dialects are a bit different, for example the dialect of Palermo, maybe the most spoken, and phonetically the most complicated.
He should drop the "i" before n + consonant, and some "d" should be pronounced "r" but I liked him very much.
I agree with all the comments here that he's quite easy to understand. I think that's for a few reasons. One is that he's speaking quite slowly and with very clear diction, which is not usually the way people speak in any "dialetto" (yes I know they're really languages) anywhere in Italy. Normally they're used in very informal contexts, so people speak fast and expressively, rarely in such a careful and clear way as this. Also, it sounds like he's reading a prepared text, so there are no spontaneous random surprises.
It's true his accent sounds pretty accurate, especially for a 3rd generation Italian-American. But actually, being born outside Italy can sometimes be (paradoxically) an advantage for this. If you never grew up with standard Italian as your native language, but you heard your parents and grandparents speaking in their native regional language, then you pick up the sounds of that language with no interference from the pronunciation of modern standard Italian. Compare that to young Italians today in regions where the local "dialetto" has really gone out of use, for example in Turin. My cousins there only know a few words, expressions and sayings in piemontese. But they pronounce them with a very strong Italian accent, very different to how their grandparents spoke. In that region, older generations avoided speaking "dialetto" around the children because they considered it low class and didn't want to "corrupt" their Italian. As a result, they never really learned the sound of the language properly at all...
Cumpari, you are 100% dead on with everything you said. I was asked to do this speech for a news program in Sicily So I thought about it, then wrote and memorized it. And it's true, as I grew up I never heard Italian, only the Sicilian my grandparents spoke.
@@fanuzzucampo3102 thanks, I thought I was close to the mark. :) And all credit to you for how well you've learned and maintained your family's ancestral language. By the way, that wasn't a criticism at all that it seemed like you were reading (or had memorised) the speech. Just an observation, due to the lack of filler words or random digressions that would normally come up otherwise. I'm very impressed, I know in my case even though I grew up with standard Italian I can't really speak the different dialects of my parents even though I can understand them pretty well.
@@fanuzzucampo3102Amazing job Steven, thank you!
I wish my grandma taught me this language she's 100 years old and I'm playing this for her I can tell she's listening thank you so much
Hey, since she's still alive it isn't too late to at least learn a little bit from her if she wants to teach it to you. I'm sure you could find resources to teach yourself a little bit of it too
Ciau Stefanu. U to videu é simpaticu e tu soni bbonu. Cuntinua ista manera! Keep the Sicilian Alive in America.
grazie caru Rosario, un abbrazzu forti!
Excellent. Thanks for posting.
Sicilian here! As a native speaker of both sicilian and italian i can also perfectly understand corsican!
My grandparents and elders in our family spoke Sicilian a lot around us as kids. We would mostly answer them in English, but it is so strange how much of this I can understand, and when someone speaks Italian on a movie or something, I can barely understand anything they say.
Love the sound of Sicilian!
Bravo Bravo Steven ti lu dicu di francia, continua grazzie assa
What amazes me is how you learned this as an American. You would think you’d need family to learn a rarer dialect
He said he did grow up with Sicilian grandparents so that absolutely helps with pronunciation when you grew up constantly around a language even if you didn't speak it.
@@jhlfscThat’s what I’m thinking! It doesn’t work like that for everyone I’ve ever met as a language teacher, but most US English speakers struggle so much to achieve this kind of pronunciation in Romance languages I also concluded that this guy’s brain must’ve retained some of those childhood sounds. And was able to connect them in useful ways to specific words once he started to study Sicilian as an adult.
I would like to say "hi" to Metatron.
Grazzie, Stefanu, m'a fattu truoppu piaciri taliari 'u ta videu, continua accussì!
E puru e' un piaciri di leggiri chistu ca mi scrivisti!!! Ti salutu cumpari miu!
I come here as a 5th gen Sicilian-American, to hear my great-great grandparents' language. I wish to learn it one day. Being in America trying to learn a not so well known language looked hard to do, but if he can do it, so can I!
It is extremely hard to do but start with the textbook by Learn Sicilian by Geatano Cipolla.
@@fanuzzucampo3102 Thank you!
@@servantofaeie1569 Your welcome
what the heck i'm from TX and never knew Louisiana had a large Sicilian population? how cool! i would love to hear the history of how Sicilians immigrated to Louisiana
After slavery was abolished, plantation owners from Mississippi Delta states lobbied the Italian government to convince Southern Italian migrants to move to the US to work the plantations on the cheap - sort of like indentured servitude, but it depended on the plantation. Many Sicilians went back, but a lot stayed. There were so many in New Orleans that the French Quarter became known as "Little Palermo" and in fact most properties in the Quarter are still owned by Sicilian American families. First mention of "the mafia" came from a New Orleans newspaper, and some of the largest mass lynchings in US history happened to Sicilians in Louisiana. The muffuletta sandwich is a Sicilian invention in New Orleans, based on traditional Sicilian muffuletta bread.
Nick is 100%, in fact my great grandfather and some other relatives were called to work the sugarcane fields of South Louisiana a around 1895. After a short while they heard about strawberry farming and moved into the Tangipahoa Parish Area. By 1909, 75% of the population of Independence was Sicilian and they owned about 80% of the land. This all happened in a matter of about 20 years. The Sicilians completely replaced the farming practices of the locals and just about ran the out of the area. 1915 was a high point and during that year in that little town of 1000 people the Sicilians shipped 405 rail cars of strawberries all over the U.S. and including Canada. A book was written about this area and the first Sicilians to arrive. It's quite an amazing story!
Read this in 2024, if you read it, I recommend a book put out by Pelican publishers. Bread and Respect the Italians of Louisiana. Author A V Margavio and Jerome J Salomone.
I am here in Baton Rouge
I live near villafranca sicula, in fact when I heard that you were originally from my area I was shocked. you are very good at speaking it
Mr. Campo! great science teacher, definitely one of the top 4 teachers in the 400 hall!
Thanks bonefish!
❤️ So beautiful to hear it again ❤️
That’s pretty interesting; my father is from Catania, your accent is similar, but different enough, and there are a couple of different words as well.
It is very strange seeing in this man's face the reflection of my ancestors's and a little bit of my own ^^ (my grandparents emigrated and now I'm French without ties left in Italy or Sicily).
Également , moi c'est mon père qui a immigré en France à 3 ans en 54 avec ses parents et frères et sœurs ..
Now I’m in the mood for pasta cu’ sugu
I’m part Sicilian (Ramacca e Messina), and I understand a bit of it, it’s easier than Italian, in my opinion. Love my people 🤍
Speaks it very well, but missing the emotions . Learning from my grandparents the words, but I learned the unspoken Sicilian expressed through the eyes, facial expressions, and hands. Feel blessed to have been given this rare gift.
Bravo Stefano ❤
Bravissimo! siamo di termini imerese!
sounds like brazilian portuguese to someone's who's hearing it for the first time
Bravissimu 'mbare.
Bravu, Stephen. Parri bonu u sicilianu. Benedica.
Salutamu Steven, quannu ti vo' fari na chiacchirijata a disposizioni. Complimenti pi chiddu chi chi fai, tanti beddi cosi, passitilla sempri bona!
grazie assai frati miu, sempri ci haiu lu tempu pi parrari lu beddu sicilianu...salutami tutti parenti e l'amici
Mis bisabuelos fueron sicilianos, mas ahora no hay nadie en mi familia que puede hablar ni siciliano ni italiano!
Liar יוסף liar
Figghiu mparatillu ca ti sierve
Usted necessita andar en las scuella para imparar Italiano. Si abla Espanol es facil ! Mira como jo escivo ! Es male pero usted me intiente no ? Yo vivo in Australia e mi pappa I mamma son immigrante de la Sicilia. Yo ablo Siciliano e Inglese e un pocco di Espanol. Nessesitto praticar mucho I lecion formal para avla I para avancar mi grammatica !
Bravissimo! If you want Sicilian music try out Shakalab, they're great. 100% Sicilian! :)
Oh God
I'm a Portuguese-speaker and it sounds sometimes too similar
There is something wrong
(I know both are Romance languages, I just wasn't expecting that familiarity)
I’m Sicilian American…I’ve always felt the same. There’s something about the rhythm and emphasis of certain sounds that make both languages sound so similar.
Sicilian Sardinian and Corsican are similar since they come out from the same Tuscan root..
Excellente. Auguri.
Listen to Sicilian, then listen to a language like Igbo, and they have distinct similarities in flow and inflection. Given that I'm Italian and Igbo, I've always found this fascinating.
Bedda parlata. Salutamu de tu Nona! Lu parisu Siciliano perfecto.
I'm a portuguese speaker and I understood about 80% of it
Sei davvero un siciliano fino alla morte! I can understand you :)
Anyone have an english transcript? I picked up Agrigento - my great grandparents were from caltabellotta. Would love to know the story. Thanks!
Come si scrive il detto in Italiano/Inglese/Siciliano? Non ho trovato su l'internet. Me piace molto imparare le lingue. Sono un giovane brasiliano ed adesso imparo l'italiano come sesta lingua
Absolutely amazing would you mind sharing some information I am trying to do the same thing as you it was refreshing to hear you speak
Just tell in specific terms what you would like to know and I'll do my best to help cumpari Jon Minnella@
@@fanuzzucampo3102 I'm sorry. I just saw your reply now. I want to learn to speak Sicilian. My family is from Sicily as a child I grew up. In the household with this language, I can speak a little bit but not very much. And another problem is they mix the Sicilian with the Italian. I really want to be authentic with it. Would you be willing to share some links where I can do exactly what you did? I understood pretty much what you said in the video, but there's some things I don't understand Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.
@@jonminnella4157 This is my Sicilian facebook group. There are 1000's of native Sicilians who love helping other learn Sicilian. There are also Professors from the Universities in Sicilia in the group. So you can ask anything and surely some will be willing to help. And there is daily posts and dialogue in Sicilian. Ciao!
facebook.com/groups/776269249235219/
it sounds like the OG latin
I miss having this man's class
Compà u sicilianu u palli megghiu ri mia! Bravissimo!
grazie frati miu
@@fanuzzucampo3102 😊
Ciao tutti di più specialmente Stefano. Io penso che tu parlate la lingua Siciliano nei un molto in modo poetica in cui le parole fluide tramontà gli frase della conversazione e narrazione per durante tutto intervista. Da America ma tu insegna come a detto cose a persone usando verbi descrizione e è bene scriviti. Così in Sicilia loro gioco suonare la tarantela canzoni folclori con una friscaletta e lo modo suonare l'instrumenta è tante suonando piacevoli. Complimenti su padroneggiare la lingua di tua madre. Cin cin. Ti abbia di cura te stesso. Hai un goderemmo volta nei Sicilia. Mi sono provo a insegno io stesso ma scopra esso difficile purtroppo. Antonio Futura Tiani 3574 Ancoats Jacqui Lili Lucrezia Natalie Miles platting Nord quartiere Mcr.
As a Spanish speaker I understood like 80% of what you said.
hablo espanol tambien and I agree with you...Sicilian is very similar to Spanish.
@@fanuzzucampo3102 Si tan solo hubiera suficiente contenido producido en el idioma, para que pueda ser aprendido sin necesidad de vivir en su país de origen.
Santissime parole non importa dove si nasce, ma è importante conoscere le nostre origini. Sono nata e cresciuta in Germania anche i miei genitori sono emigrati, ma mai metterò da parte le mie origini. Vado ogni anno in Sicilia ha trovare i miei cari. Ho imparato a mia FIGLIA la nostra cultura è tradizioni, è fra poco divento nonna, è sicuramente parlerò al mio nipotino la nostra lingua cosi quando andremo in vacanza si sentirâ uno di noi. Unnamma scurdari mai di unni vinimmu. Un caloroso saluto dalla Germania, ma con il cuore girgintanu che batte sempre per la nostra terra Sicilia.
Thank goodness for UA-cam otherwise I would never hear the language of my Sicilian family anymore as they have all passed on.
@Renee M thanks for the reply, check my FB Sicilian Learning page. facebook.com/groups/776269249235219/?ref=bookmarks
You language sound like romanian language. Salut din Romania .
It’s impossible to find a Sicilian tutor in the USA
Sicilian language alive FOREVER.
His hands had to be tied down...
LOL
🤣
i love you mr campo
Thanks my friend!
Bonu! Ci vole pazienza!
I am from northern Italy, while am I understanding this while I don't undersand northern dialects?
Minkia chi parli si agrigentino antico bravo paesano mio forza Agrigento sempre!
Ti salutu paesano miu!
Bravo
jo sacciu cca a lingua siciliana je a lingua cchiu bidda ditalia e vogghiu vidirlu parratu assai cchiu!! e puru parri assai beni
grazie cumpari John, e jo sugnu d'accordu cu tia! Chistu je me gruppu in facebook, facebook.com/groups/776269249235219/
so this is where the fast show got their influence for chanel 9 from...
Atlas Sullivan lol, I think from old Greek tv too
Bro this is my science teacher
CrispyPringles hahahahaha for real bro?
Ju paru la lingua da ademia Siciliana?
Salutamu paesano!
Ti salutu cumpari!
Beddu. Grazzii
It's like a mix of Italian with Portuguese lol
LMatt 88 no it isn’t trust me I’m from catania (sicily) lmao 😂
LMatt 88 No. I’d say it’s more like Vulgar Latin left unaffected by the Renaissance. Kind of. Of course, the characterization is a bit on the oversimple side, but that’s how Sicilian strikes me as someone who knows Italian and Classical Latin.
Father of my grandfather of Akragas was.
Ringrazio, Stefano -i genitori sono di Malta- e i dialetto da noi e profondamente siciliano. In fatto, cio' e un movimento in Malta si riferisce " i ridentisti- per ristaurare. La lingua Italiana pura e legitima a Malta. Nostra Polizia, per esempio e "PULIZIJA"
puramente Siciliano! Pu li zi ya! Gratia Fratellino
Grazie cumpari Paul. Ti salutu!
Cool
Nandri simmu guali.
Sono figlio di mamma Di Stefano sugnu figghiu di Matri Di Stefano da Motta Sant' Anastasia. Mi commuove sentire la tu voce.
Quannu voi putepu parrari in sicilianu cu Skype. T' mannu un salutu da un sicilianu missinisi chi vivi a Milanu.
How can I send a video to you guys????????
sounds just like or mostly just like standard italian.
very similar
Sicilian sounds like Portuguese to me
That's where you get your Italian American from.
Soy español y entiendo casi todo 😅
bonu bonu yo hablo espanol tambien. Me mugghieri es cubana.
I'm Hispanic and I understand you so odd, esta ablando de la bliblia
hola Walter, yo hablo espanol tambien, me esposa es de cuba...ti salutu cumpari
Sometimes it seems he is speaking Portuguese.
Yo what up campo
It's all solid for real though
Sí 'nu sicilianu veru. Ai chiù urgogghiu tu ca tanti di cà ntâ Isula. Si lu nummeru unu, frati!!!
grazii frati miu!