Advantages and prospects for Italian speakers as well as experience in learning the language were discussed at a seminar in Hanoi on Oct. 14.

The seminar, the highlight of the Italian Language Week in Vietnam , drew the participations of the ambassadors of Argentina , Pakistan , Switzerland and Venezuela , the director of the Goethe Institute and a number of Vietnamese students.

Writer Mario Fortunato, former director of the Italian Institute of Culture in London , said that the first heritage of the nation is its language and Italian is the language of a nation rich of cultural heritages.

Italian is also the language of cuisine, arts, fashion, architecture and design and renovation, said Italian Ambassador to Vietnam Andrea Perugini.

The Vietnamese translation of a masterpiece of Italian literature “If this is a man” was launched on this occasion.

The autobiographical book was written by Italian writer and chemist Primo Levi, who based the book on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II./.