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Grammar lessons : translating a life in Spain /

In the thirteen personal essays in Grammar Lessons, Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of teaching English to university students, she learned to translate and interpret her past and presen...

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Main Author: Morano, Michele (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Spanish language > Grammar.
Spanish language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > English.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781587297458
1587297450
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • PART ONE. OVIEDO. Ca beleño
  • The queimada
  • In the subjunctive mood
  • Having hunger
  • Everyday lessons
  • On climbing Peña Ubiña
  • Body language
  • PART TWO. MADRID, ALTAMIRA, GUERNICA. On dining alone
  • Motion sickness
  • Authenticity and artifice
  • The impossible overcome
  • PART THREE. AFTER SPAIN. In praise of envy
  • Fluency.

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