First F1 race of this season I would like to share my thoughts. In my modest opinion this competition is a farce. First of all, I have to say that the sound of the engines is terrible. It was a pleasure for me hearing the sound of F1 engines....hearing engines up to 18000-19000 rpm was like music to my ears. This season, with the turbocharged engines they shift at lower rpm, so we would expect that the sound would be less than in other seasons, but the real problem is when you watch an onboard camera and the sound is like a tin. This is the highest motorsport competition, so I think most of the fans don't care if it is too loud because they like it. Well, at least me. Second point: fuel consumption. I don't care if these cars are efficient or not. I want to see drivers going always (or most of the time) flat out. Last year we had to see how drivers had to look after the tires. This year the tires seem to be harder so they may have a better race pace, but they can't because they have to look at the fuel consumption, which for me makes no sense. They have to let the car go for a while before they push the brake pedal only because doing that, the fuel consumption is reduced. I remember when the teams had to think about the fuel strategy in every single race, and combined with the tire strategy we watched very good races. Why can't be now like that? For me, the only good thing for this first race was that you never knew what was going to happen, but the rest was boring. Let's see what happened. -Mercedes: they have a missile (like Red Bull had last season) so for me, they are the best team. Rosberg is a very good driver but Hamilton is a crack ( for me the best are Alonso and Lewis) -McLaren: Magnussen did a impressive performance, looks like he is going to deserve that seat, and he is still very young. Button was very good also and he took advantage of a excellent pit strategy. The car has a Mercedes engine which is, at this moment, the best.

Televisión Española ofrece más de 5000 documentales en español para ver online y gratis

Me parece que esto puede suponer un material de aprendizaje muy bueno para la gente que está aprendiendo español y por eso merece que sea visto. Para los nativos, seguro que encontramos alguno que sea de nuestro agrado para ver en algún momento.

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/documentales/

 

Y aquí la noticia: http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20140205/rtvees-lanza-mayor-web-documentales-castellano-del-mundo/872021.shtml

RTVE.es lanza hoy la mayor web de documentales en castellano del mundo, con más de 5.000 títulos digitalizados para ver online. Somos Documentales, creada por el departamento de Interactivos de RTVE, ha buceado en el archivo histórico de TVE y ha rescatado con mimo las grandes cintas emitidas en su día por La 1 y La 2 para que puedan poder disfrutarse esta vez en Internet, tabletas, móviles y televisiones conectadas.

Además, ofrecerá en directo los títulos de La 2 y las series especiales de este género.

La web está llamada a convertirse en el lugar de referencia en Internet para los amantes del documental con cuatro pilares: más de 20 estrenos semanales de otros tantos títulos; la apertura de los archivos de RTVE (con más de 5.000 documentales disponibles a los que van sumándose nuevos reportajes a diario), un área de información con blogs especializados que contarán el día a día de los rodajes de cine documental y lo más relevante del circuito mundial de festivales y una apuesta por la creación de documentales específicos para web, conocidos como 'webdocs'.

Cuidada selección y organización por temáticas

Somos Documentales ofrece a los usuarios una cuidada selección de títulos que cuenta con el asesoramiento de expertos y que se traduce, por ejemplo, en semanas temáticas, como la que la web dedicará a los Goya a través de documentales sobre el mundo del cine.

Precisamente hoy con motivo del estreno, RTVE.es ofrecerá durante más de 12 horas en streaming un recorrido por los mejores documentales del cine español de los últimos años.

La navegación está organizada a través de canales como grandes Biografías, Actualidad, Artes, Historia, Viajes, Naturaleza o Gastronomía, que permitirán al usuario descubrir películas en función de las temáticas que más les interesen.

The grandpa wins "Tour of Spain" After 21 stages the american cyclist Chris Horner wins the Tour of Spain (La Vuelta Ciclista a España) with 37 seconds of advantage over Italian Vincenzo Niballi, winner of Giro d'Italia. This is the first time that an american wins the Tour of Spain, and the first big victory for this cyclist, who is 41 years old. In the penultimate day, these two cyclists battled for the win in the brutal 12km climb to Alto de L'Angliru, with a maximum grade of 23,5%, and average 10% grade. In this stage, Horner started the day with 3 seconds advantage over Niballi, and despite the attacks of the Italian, he managed to cross the finish line ahead of him and therefore, the final day in Madrid was a celebration for Horner. At an age when most profesional sportsmen are retired, this man is the oldest winner of one of cycling's three majors (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and La Vuelta a España). This heroic win has earned him a place in the sporting record books that will be difficult to match. So, from a Spanish fan, Congratulations Mr Horner!!!!

A joke about flying In a plane: (Captain) -Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain. We are currently approaching.....OH MY GOD!!! The passengers hear a loud scream, followed by a infernal noise. (Captain) - Nooooooooooooo!!!!!! (Captain) -Fuck, shit, crackkkkkkkkkkkkkk, booooom......... And then a silence that seems to be eternal. A few seconds after, the captain takes again the microphone and laughing, he apologizes: -I beg your pardon, ladies and gentlemen. I have thrown away by mistake the tray and I spilt my cup of coffee on my trousers and ............it's better for you not to know how my front trousers are now..... One of the passengers cries: -Stupid!!! You should have to see how my back trousers are!!!!!!!!

Do you want to laugh? You have to watch this video I was reading a topic called "how to improve your english" in a spanish forum and an user suggested this video. It's called (titled?) "A tale of two brains" and you can see how a man describes the differences between men's brains and women's brains and how we think differently from each other. The man who talks is a minister from the United States but he is very funny. Maybe someone of you know him, I don't know..... I started to watch the video and I could understand almost everything without subtitles, so I started to laugh. He is talking in a seminar and the people there are laughing all the time. I use this kind (type) of videos to improve my listening very often. I think I can understand an american speaker better than a british, but maybe it's due to I hear it more times. In my opinion, he is right in some of his explanations, but not in all. After watching this video, I googled it on internet and i found that it's a part of a DVD called "Laugh your way to a better marriage" and the man's name is Marc Gungor. Ok, you are thinking: stop talking, shut up and link the video. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjUFYxSxDk I hope you find it funny!

Improving my english It's summer and i'm trying to improve my english level. I like to listen to Vaughan Radio, specially a program called Cloverdale's Corner, hosted by Richard Vaughan, the owner of Vaughan Systems, which is a well-known company here in Spain for learning english. I don't know if Richard Vaughan is only known in Spain, but he is american. In this program, he teaches english and he usually has spanish students with him to make the show more entertaining (funny). He talks about storys and he asks questions to the spanish students. It's a good way to learn things. There are other programs in this radio station, but this is my favourite/favorite (UK/USA english). I was told that other way to learn english is watching tv series in this language, so i did. I watched Game of Thrones, two times each episode: the first one without subtitles and the second with them. The first time i am able to understand 50% more or less, and the second, with subtitles, about 90%. But i think it's a good way to improve my listening. And i like the serie very much, so i'm waiting (looking forward) for the fourth season. I also listen to podcasts like ESL Podcast when i walk or when i go out with my mountain bike. This podcast is done in Los Angeles, California by Jeff McQuillan. I think i can understand the american english better than the british english....all depends on the person who speaks. I have to recomend other podcasts, from BBC Learning English: "6 minutes english" and "The english we speak". They are very short in time (6 minutes in the first case and about 3 minutes in the second, but they are very usefull). I hope that these ideas could help other people to learn english. I would like to practice my speaking with a native speaker, but i am still looking for someone to do it. I have installed skype, but i don't know exactly how it works.....but i will do it. And this is all for now. I will write some more when i had new ideas. See you!