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U Sicilianu O Cinema - Learn Sicilian with movies

U Sicilianu O Cinema - Learn Sicilian with movies

U Sicilianu O Cinema

In this podcast we break down and translate movie scenes where the Sicilian language is spoken but Sicilian subtitles are not provided. Do you like this podcast? Show your support by buying me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/USOC Are you studying Sicilian? Try the Udemy Course "Basic Sicilian Language": http://bitly.ws/y5D5 Ni sintemu prestu! :)

57 - Vitti na Crozza: The Most Mysterious Sicilian Folk Song
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  • 57 - Vitti na Crozza: The Most Mysterious Sicilian Folk Song

    There aren’t many Sicilian songs as famous as the one we’ll discuss in this episode. The song, titled “Vitti na Crozza” (I Saw a Skull), has a history that is both enigmatic and deeply connected to a classic film: “Il Cammino della Speranza” (Path of Hope) by Pietro Germi.

    Here are the lyrics we’ll be translating in this episode:


    Vitti na crozza supra nu cannuni

    fui curiusu e ci vosi spiari

    Idda m’arrispunnì cu gran duluri

    murivi senza toccu di campani


    Si ni eru si ni eru li me anni

    si ni eru si ni eru un sacciu unni

    ora ca su rivatu ad ottant’anni

    lu vivu chiama e a morti ci arrispunni


    Cunzatimi cunzatimi stu lettu

    ca di li vermi su manciatu tuttu

    si nun lu scuntu cca lu me difettu

    lu scuntu a chidda vita a sangu ruttu

    Tue, 19 Nov 2024 - 09min
  • 56 - A fuitina (the escape) - Episode for advanced speakers

    This time we talk about the "fuitina"! Maybe you heard the romantic version of it. When a couple runs away because his or her family is against the marriage. 

    But unfortunately, it wasn’t always like that. In Sicily until the end of the 70s, it could happen that a woman could be kidnapped by someone who wanted to marry her against her will.

    In this episode, we hear the story of a kidnapping that ended badly. It happened in Sicily in the 1960s and it’s told by someone who knew the guy who wanted to get married and -that time he didn’t succeed.

    The movie I recommend to know more is "La ragazza del futuro" (2022).

    Sat, 03 Aug 2024 - 06min
  • 55 - Mpizzari (to lose/to nail) - The way we laughed, 1998

    In this episode, we go to Turin in 1960, where many Sicilians, Calabrians, Apulians went to find a job. "The Way We Laughed," (Così ridevano) by Gianni Amelio, released in 1998, tells a story of this time.

    Sat, 13 Apr 2024 - 11min
  • 54 - Scantarisi (To get scared) - Nuovomondo, 2006

    This scene comes from the movie “Nuovomondo” (The golden door), directed in 2006 by Emanuele Crialese. It follows a sicilian family on its journey to America. In this scene Lucy, a mysterious woman traveling on the same boat with them, asks Salvatore to marry her.

    Sat, 02 Dec 2023 - 12min
  • 49 - Prof. Gaetano Cipolla and U Sicilianu - (Episode for advanced speakers)

    If you guys study Sicilian, it's almost certain that at some point you'll hear about the man who we meet in this episode. His name is Gaetano Cipolla. He wrote - among other things - the books "Mparamu lu Sicilianu" and "Mparamu lu Sicilianu II". This episode is for advanced Sicilianu speakers!

    Sun, 31 Mar 2024 - 13min
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