> The author says it’s easy for Italians to understand Sicilian, but I’m sure anyone who learned Italian as a second language from textbooks won’t feel the same

> The author says it’s easy for Italians to understand Sicilian, but I’m sure anyone who learned Italian as a second language from textbooks won’t feel the same. Sicilian is not intelligible to italian speakers. The only dialect that is fully understandable is Roman vernacular. He said that Italians understand each other when speaking Italian.