La Collana Longobarda

by Maria Grazia Di Bernardo

Come può un tranquillo soggiorno in Italia transformarsi in una vera e propria avventura? È quello che succede ad Anna, una studentessa tedesca arrivata a Bergamo per perfezionare il sui italiano. Un giorno trova nella sua camera il diario di Luisa, l'inquilina precendente: lo sfoglia e scopre una pagina davvero inquietante... Curiosa, Anna inizia ad indagare per risolvere il mistero con l'aiuto di un amico.

Genres: Italian Literature

64 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2003

Reviews

[Erfan.Dianat · Rating 3 out of 5]

اولین تجربه‌ی خوندن به ایتالیایی. خوب بود.
قصه‌اش ولی چیزِ بی‌مزه‌ای بود.

[Burke Berry · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for class and definitely had to translate a good bit but a cute story nonetheless

[Val’]

Eh bah voilà

[Giulia · Rating 2 out of 5]

ist mein italienisch wirklich so schlecht aber warum macht er ihr einen Heiratsantrag obwohl die sich erst gefühlt seit 2 Wochen kennen?? 😰😰

[Katriina ❆ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for school. I thought it was quite tedious, with - take this as an example - an entire chapter dedicated to Anna going shopping in Bergamo, especially since it had nothing to do with the plot. My God, I just couldn't care less for a fictional character's shoe size..

But I guess it was for the sake of the comprehensibility of this book. You know, it's an A2 "imparare leggendo" book, so a book considered for pre-intermediate readers, and a lot of people from my class had enormous problems with it (Mind you, we're an italian course in our 2nd year). I thought the book was written... well for the fact that it had to stay in the A2 borders of comprehensibility. I marked some nice expressions and fancy words and generelly understood everything. I'm glad to know that I'll easily be able to move on to B1 or B2 and maybe one day I'll be able to read Dante's Inferno in Italian. Which I've already started, but it's admittedly not the easiest piece of literature.

[Andy Balicki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Taking it for what it is, it’s a useful educational stepping stone. True to it’s intended reading level, nothing is too complex or difficult. Story is pretty banal, but there are plenty of useful exercises and cultural information between the chapters.

[Kārlis · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really cool little book for learning Italian in a fun way. The exercises are really useful, only thing is that it would be nice if there were solutions as well. The story is cute, a bit all over the place, but it's all to teach Italian in different scenarios.

[valdi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Il libro è lungo 64 pagine e ha più esercizi che storia per se, quindi quello che mi aspettavo è quello che ho ottenuto.

[Meri Monfort · Rating 3 out of 5]

be per a un a2. se mha fet massa fàcil

[Ottertje · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice little beginner level italian book, the story is quite short but there are plenty of learning exercises. It would have been nice to have a small list of unusual words and their meaning though.

[jana · Rating 3 out of 5]

per italià, nihil novum sub sole…entretingut

[Mist Day · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ho letto questa storia per fare un esame e ho pensato che è moolto divertente perché l'italiano è piú facile di capire.

La storia racconta la vita di Anna, una ragazza tesdesca que è in Italia per studiare lingua e letteratura italiana. In un giorno lei va con i suoi amici a una discoteca e là conosce Guido, un ragazzo che fa il militare. Loro si diventano amici e, dopo, quando Anna trova un diario di una ragazza misteriosa, loro entrano in un indangine per scoprire la verità sulla scomparsa subito di quella ragazza (Luisa).

Lo consiglio a chi sta iniziando a imparare l'italiano, vi piacerá troppo!!!

Buona Lettura💘

[Gregory Earls · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great book for beginning Italian readers. It's a cute little mystery about a German girl named Anna, who is studying Italian in Bergamo. The story gets going when she discovers a diary while cleaning her dorm room, which hints towards a major art theft at a local museum. Depending how fluent you are in Italian, this book could be read in an hour or over a couple of days. It took me a few hours. I'm a long way from Dante's Inferno, but finishing an entire book in an entire language, no matter how short, is a confidence builder. Baby steps. Baby steps.