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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morano, Michele (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©2007.
Colección:Sightline books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.