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 present worlds—to study the surprising moments of communication—as a way to make sense of language and meaning, longing and memory.     Morano focuses first on her year of living in Oviedo, in the early 1990s, a time spent immersing herself in a new culture and language while working through the relationship she had left behind with an emotionally dependent and suicidal man. Next, after subsequent trips to Spain, she explores the ways that travel sparks us to reconsider our personal histories in the context of larger historical legacies. Finally, she turns to the aftereffects of travel, to the constant negotiations involved in retelling and understanding the stories of our lives. Throughout she details one woman’s journey through vocabulary and verb tense toward a greater sense of her place in the world.     Grammar Lessons illustrates the difficulty and delight, humor and humility of living in a new language and of carrying that pivotal experience forward. Michele Morano’s beautifully constructed essays reveal the many grammars and many voices that we collect, and learn from, as we travel.

在《语法课》的13篇个人文章中，米歇尔-莫拉诺将语法规则与我们讲述的故事联系起来，以帮助我们理解我们的世界。在向大学生教授英语的一年中，她在西班牙生活和旅行，学会了翻译和解释她过去和现在的世界--研究交流的令人惊讶的时刻，以此来理解语言和意义、渴望和记忆。    莫拉诺首先关注她在20世纪90年代初生活在奥维耶多的一年，这段时间她沉浸在一种新的文化和语言中，同时努力解决她与一个有情感依赖和自杀倾向的男人之间留下的关系。接下来，在随后的西班牙之行中，她探讨了旅行激发我们在更大的历史遗产背景下重新考虑个人历史的方式。最后，她转向了旅行的后遗症，以及在重述和理解我们生活的故事时涉及的不断协商。在整个过程中，她详细介绍了一个女人通过词汇和动词时态，对自己在这个世界上的位置有了更多的了解。    语法课》展示了在一种新的语言中生活的困难和喜悦、幽默和谦逊，以及将这种关键的经验向前推进的过程。米歇尔-莫拉诺的文章结构优美，揭示了我们在旅行中收集的许多语法和许多声音，并从中学习。