diff --git a/jedi/api/__init__.py b/jedi/api/__init__.py
index 39f1c904e..d7b2d5ae6 100644
--- a/jedi/api/__init__.py
+++ b/jedi/api/__init__.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 from jedi.api.keywords import KeywordName
 from jedi.api.environment import InterpreterEnvironment
 from jedi.api.project import get_default_project, Project
+from jedi.api.errors import parso_to_jedi_errors
 from jedi.inference import InferenceState
 from jedi.inference import imports
 from jedi.inference.references import find_references
@@ -504,6 +505,9 @@ def get_names(self, **kwargs):
         """
         return self._names(**kwargs)  # Python 2...
 
+    def get_syntax_errors(self):
+        return parso_to_jedi_errors(self._grammar, self._module_node)
+
     def _names(self, all_scopes=False, definitions=True, references=False):
         def def_ref_filter(_def):
             is_def = _def._name.tree_name.is_definition()
diff --git a/jedi/api/errors.py b/jedi/api/errors.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e86f92127
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jedi/api/errors.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+"""
+This file is about errors in Python files and not about exception handling in
+Jedi.
+"""
+
+
+def parso_to_jedi_errors(grammar, module_node):
+    return [SyntaxError(e) for e in grammar.iter_errors(module_node)]
+
+
+class SyntaxError(object):
+    def __init__(self, parso_error):
+        self._parso_error = parso_error
+
+    @property
+    def line(self):
+        return self._parso_error.start_pos[0]
+
+    @property
+    def column(self):
+        return self._parso_error.start_pos[1]
+
+    @property
+    def until_line(self):
+        return self._parso_error.end_pos[0]
+
+    @property
+    def until_column(self):
+        return self._parso_error.end_pos[1]
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return '<%s from=%s to=%s>' % (
+            self.__class__.__name__,
+            self._parso_error.start_pos,
+            self._parso_error.end_pos,
+        )
diff --git a/test/test_api/test_syntax_errors.py b/test/test_api/test_syntax_errors.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..01e99688b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_api/test_syntax_errors.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+"""
+These tests test Jedi's Parso usage. Basically there's not a lot of tests here,
+because we're just checking if the API works. Bugfixes should be done in parso,
+mostly.
+"""
+
+from textwrap import dedent
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'code, line, column, until_line, until_column', [
+        ('?\n', 1, 0, 1, 1),
+        ('x %% y', 1, 3, 1, 4),
+        ('"""\n\n', 1, 0, 3, 0),
+        ('(1, 2\n', 2, 0, 2, 0),
+        ('foo(1, 2\ndef x(): pass', 2, 0, 2, 3),
+    ]
+)
+def test_simple_syntax_errors(Script, code, line, column, until_line, until_column):
+    e, = Script(code).get_syntax_errors()
+    assert e.line == line
+    assert e.column == column
+    assert e.until_line == until_line
+    assert e.until_column == until_column
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'code', [
+        'x % y',
+        'def x(x): pass',
+        'def x(x):\n pass',
+    ]
+)
+def test_no_syntax_errors(Script, code):
+    assert not Script(code).get_syntax_errors()
+
+
+def test_multi_syntax_error(Script):
+    code = dedent('''\
+        def x():
+        1
+        def y()
+        1 + 1
+        1 *** 3
+        ''')
+    x, y, power = Script(code).get_syntax_errors()
+    assert x.line == 2
+    assert x.column == 0
+    assert y.line == 3
+    assert y.column == 7
+    assert power.line == 5
+    assert power.column == 4