My opinion of Spider-Man: Homecoming This weekend I went to the cinema with my girlfriend to see the new Spider-Man movie. In general the movie is hunky dory, in my opinion Tom Holland (Peter Parker) represents very well the character and the Vulture looks amazing, but I disagree in some aspects. For example the aunt May looks very young and sexy, every man in the movie flirt with her. For me the aunt May represents an adorable old woman more than a sexy mature woman. Shocker appears in the movie like a secondary character when is a great enemy of Spidy. What is your opinion about this movie?

To spill the beans I want to know if I am using correctly the next phrase. For example, if a friend is not able to keep a secret and always say all, I can say him “You are always spilling the beans” .

I want to express my fascination with Lovecraft’s tales. Since I was a child anything that had relationship with the mysterious and unknown claimed in me the most impetuous sensation to inquire more and more until reach an denouement. Later I learned that not all in this universe has a clear answer and that despite the efforts of the science there are an infinity of issues that remain under a veil of ignorance and darkness. An ambiguous sensation is claimed in the humans by these issues, on one side there is a desire of truth, the opportunity to know more about us and our universe, on the other side there is a fear towards the unknown, the feeling that our being can be easily destroyed with the simple fact of inquiring more. Lovecraft’s tales explore this ambivalence of the human behavior, his characters are thrown towards situations that show how weak and small are the humans in the immeasurable universe. Some of his protagonists seek with fervent desire one answer to clarify their lives (The Alchemist), to find a reason to live, to get free of their prison, to find something beyond of their current existence (The outsider) or simply they are in the search of something more, their being requires the continuous exploring through the senses to satisfy itself (The Music of Erich Zann). On the other hand some Lovecraft’s tales express the idea that the characters would not like to live again the aberrant experience by way of which their destiny has been thrown (The Crawling Chaos), also there are tales that show the fear to talk about dire event, such as a kind of taboo, such as if the mention of the issue could invoke the catastrophe (The Color out of Space). But no matter the particular motivations of each protagonists, at the end, all experimented the fascination and terror of what the human mind ignores, even getting to know of what has resisted since of begin of the time, called by Lovecraft a primordial horror (The call of Cthulhu, the nameless city). For me the fear is the original feeling, for example, before to know the love we knew the fear, because love is to feel safe, and to feel safe is know our environment, but always is first the lack of knowledge that the wisdom, first is necessary to experiment to have a first impression, if there is not experimentation much less can exists an impression. Lovecraft could transmit this feelings with few words, a simple paragraph could demonstrate easily this sensations, for this reason I am fascinated with Lovecraft’s tales.

The word “by” is correctly used? “I want to express my fascination by Lovecraft’s tales”. I am not sure if the preposition “by” is correctly used, or is it better use “to” or “toward(s)”?

Trying to improve my pronunciation in English through listen music and watch movies. Due to I have decided to learn English, I am in need to found fun ways to achieve my goal, because I consider that if I am happy during the time that I am learning, I can improve more quickly my level in English. I want to put special attention in the pronunciation, because it is my bigger weakness in English, so I concluded that the best way to achieve these two objectives jointly, it is through to ear the lyrics in the songs and try to sing them or listen the dialogs in a movie and TV programs and repeat some parts of the dialogs. I am not a good singer but I enjoy humming the songs, I pass a big part of day listen music and I try to imitate the sounds that singer produce, maybe not in a correct tune but I try to reproduce the pronunciation with the most accuracy. Besides, every night I see thriller or horror movies with my girlfriend, when the movie finishes we repeat some dialogs as a game. It is so funny and always I learn a new word and its pronunciation. Maybe it is not the best way to improve my pronunciation but I am happy with that and I hope to see a few results in my way to talk in the future. Thanks for read my notebook entry.

My first article Hi, my name is José, I am from México, more specifically, I am from Veracruz State, but actually I am living and working in Mexico City. I would like to improve my skills in English because is my new goal in this year. I have studied this language since the university but initially I was not interested, for me It was another one course that I had to pass, but now I have noticed that is funny learn languages, because I can express my ideas in a new way, talk with people from others countries, read books or watch programs that are not available in my mother tongue, in a few words, learn a language offers me a new perspective in my life. I am excited by my first “article” and I hope you can help me, thanks.