WEB RESOURCES

The resources on the web for learning English are unlimited, enormous. The best thing to do is finding the most suitable for you by surfing the web taking into account your level and preferences. Here you have some ideas:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/   .- General E/ Business E/E from the News... Excellent resource. Besides, BBC worldservice provides you with innumerable podcasts.
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/      .- The British Council at your service.
http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html     .- Good Listenig material. American English.
http://librivox.org/.-        Audiobooks. You can find the read version and the Gutemberg of almost any known book in the public domain - published before 1945-
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
http://speakingfrog.com/  Videos of famous speeches from films, politicians and famous people on stage... with the transcription provided.

WordReferencing
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=welcome  Essential dictionary online
http://howjsay.com/index.php?word=whirlwind&submit=Submit .-  Pronunciation of words
http://www.phrases.org.uk/  .- Phrases and idioms both British and American.
http://www.linguee.es

English for IT
http://tech.worlded.org/docs/cesol/index.htm
http://www.english4it.com/  .- Provided by Maribel Peiró

Please, if you explore these pages write comments on this blog telling what you particularly liked and why the site has been  useful to your English.

THE AMERICAN DREAM

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.^[23]
Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects.

This is a very lucid piece of speech from his show "Life is worth losing". The translation is very mild not to hurt the most sensitive souls.

If you like this, try "The Ten Commandements" ," On Fat People" or any other item from this showman - already dead- on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz90v0xllDc

Benjamin zander shining eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71w-oasL6iQ&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL202A348649F0AB24

Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra since its formation in 1979. He is also the conductor of Boston's renowned Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. For the past thirty years, he has been a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. He has taught Master Classes all over the world and has been a visiting professor at some of the finest educational institutions

MAN Vs. MACHINE

Interesting contest of Man Vs. Machine.
Viewing compulsory for Computing Studies. Recommended to the rest.
If you are curious about the outcome look  up at YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seNkjYyG3gI

Another video on San Francisco

If you come, to San Francisco,
You should wear... some flowers in your head.

If you come, to San Francisco.

San Francisco is the city where the hippie movement was born and this song represents the period.
The gay movement rights and the development of the IT - Information Technology, are other landmarks of this blessed city.                             This is a bike ride around the city filmed by the same person as the video on "The City", also in this blog.Interesting excursion around the city accompanied by "The Who".

Video of the city of San Francisco made by a friend of mine. Enjoy it.

THE DEATH OF STEVE JOBS

Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and the "guru" of digital technology- has died at the age of 56 at the same time that Apple was presenting to the world its new product: The IPhone 4 S.
Apart from the obvious stature as a visionary entrepreneur is the human factor of a remarkable man what I would like to point out.
His speech at Stanford University in 2005 is a delicious piece of honesty and self -disclosure.
Recomendable to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zlHAiddNUY