Learn Sicilian online

free interactive course2,000 real sentences works on your phoneEasy for an English speaker, ~836 hrs

Sicilian is spoken by about 5 million people. That figure is contested, and how we count speakers says why.

On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Corsican, Italian and Lombard. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.

one sentence from the course
SicilianVaia lettuprestu
EnglishGoto bedearly
split into its working pieces by the course itself, and paired with the English underneath. Tap a piece to light up what it pairs with. Every one of the 2,000 sentences works like this.
5 millionspeakers
2,000real sentences
1,606patterns discovered
~836hours from English
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Real Sicilian sentences from the course

Unisciti a nui.
Join us.
Svigghiati!
Wake up!
Scusami.
Forgive me.
Sugnu cuntentu.
I am happy.
Sacciu nutari.
I can swim.

How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Sicilian sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,606 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 836 hours of study. Read how it works.

Learn Sicilian from your own language

Most apps only teach Sicilian through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:

EnglishArabicCatalanCorsicanFrenchGermanGreekItalianSardinian (Logudorese)MaltesePersianPortuguese (Brazil)Portuguese (Portugal)Russian

Related languages you can also learn

CorsicanItalianLombardVenetianLigurianFriulianOccitan (Languedocian)Galician

Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.