Learn Sicilian II (English and Italian Edition)

This is an advanced textbook to learn Sicilian. It's equivalent to a second year university course. It assumes that users have a basic knowledge of Sicilian. The volume focuses on building vocabulary, reading and writing abilities, and understanding the various Sicilian parrati that are heard around the island. The book includes profiles of famous Sicilians, interesting cultural notes, local linguistic peculiarities, proverbs, and stories and anecdotes that underscore the Sicilian sense of humor the Cicero recognized more than two thousand years ago. The CD that accompanies the book contains a bilingual anthology of Sicilian texts, English translations of the readings, answers to the exercises, audio of the readings recorded by the authors and The Sounds of Sicilian: a pronunciation guide. In all the book is 514 pages