My Favorite TV Shows To Learn And Improve English With./@HannahKhoma

Hey there guys! Welcome back to our channel and if you’re new here than welcome, we’re

very glad to have you here. Today we’re going to be talking about the

best TV shows to learn English from… well, according to me. Because this is such a cool

and pleasurable way to learn English and work on your listening skills.

But first, I want to say a couple of important things to keep in mind when you’re choosing

a TV show to watch. The most important thing for me is that a show has to be interesting

to me. It has to be about something that I really enjoy and am curious about. We all

have different tastes and my suggestions might not work for you, so keep this in mind as

well. Now another thing is that there are no super-easy-to-understand

TV shows where they speak slowly and use easy vocabulary, like specifically for non-native

speakers who are learning English. Well not that I know of. And if there are I know that

those are not the ones I could enjoy watching. So, for beginners, in my opinion, it’d be

better if they watched a TV series in English that they have already seen in their first

language. This way, it’ll be easier to understand and follow along even if you don’t get every

word. And it might help you build associations and guess those words.

Adding to that depending on your current level you can watch TV shows with subtitles or without

them or you can turn them on when you didn’t understand or didn’t hear something clearly.

But use English subtitles, not subtitles in your native language. I personally do not

recommend using subtitles in your native language. I think it messes up with your comprehension

and it doesn’t let you immerse yourself in the language because you’re not really

concentrating on English. It’s that same translation and what we want is to get used

to hearing the language, get the feel for it and try to learn not to translate in our

heads but think in English. Don’t understand what is being said? - read

it. Don’t know the meaning of a word? - look it up. Yes, pause the show and look it up.

Listen, you don’t have to do this and if you know a better way to learn and understand

new words from TV shows - use them and tell us about them in the comments as well) but

I don’t. If you want to watch them just for pleasure, go for it. It’s still going

to be useful. However if your goal is to learn and improve - look those words up. At the

beginning there’s lots of them and it might be annoying and tiring and might take away

all the fun. But only at the beginning because it gets so much easier over time.

You know these things depend on your motivation, attitude, goals etc.

But for beginner or intermediate levels I wouldn’t recommend choosing a show with

a specific focus when you’re just starting out, like about medicine, crime, space, physics

or science such as “Big Bang theory” (this is one of my favorites but you probably should

watch it a bit later when you develop your listening skills better. Because it can be

quite overwhelming at first since they mostly use lots of terms and very specific vocabulary

in those shows - and what you want is this generic vocabulary. Well, unless you want

to watch something like that and are ready to work.

And I also like watching a TV series for improving listening skills better than watching movies.

A lot of people say that it’s very hard to watch and understand a movie in English

but it’s a little easier with TV shows. And I’ll tell you why.

Depending on the movie, they may use a lot of special effects and background music, actors

speak differently, their articulation is different from any other person’s - not to mention

different dialects and accents and all of this affects our ability to make out what

they are saying. I noticed that by watching a TV show like

constantly, you’re getting used to the way people speak and you start to understand them

better, because there are lots of episodes. But you don’t have that much time to get

used to people’s manners of speech by watching a movie.

And now let’s get into my list. “Modern Family” is a hilarious mockumentary

sitcom that depicts the lives of three modern-day families who are actually parts of one big

family. The characters often find themselves in ridiculous

and ludicrous situations and it’s very amusing to watch how they get out of those situation

and deal with their kids, spouses and jobs. Overall, it’s just an interesting, light,

family friendly and funny show. Perfect to watch after a hard day.

“The Good Place” is an NBC TV series that premiered in 2016. It’s about the afterlife.

It shows where you go when you die, either the good place or the bad place, depending

on the type of person you were during your lifetime.

While the show is very funny and filled with Eleanor’s, the main character, sarcastic

jokes and amoral behavior it’s also philosophical and brings up lots of questions about the

way we act towards others and it’s consequences and the way we live our lives. There’s so

many teachable moments. It’s an entertaining show with a very interesting

plot and it’s undoubtedly one of the best shows I’ve ever watched.

“Stranger things”. If you’re a sci-fi, horror and mystery lover this series is definitely

a perfect match for you. The events take place in the 80s in the fictional

town of Hawkins where in a laboratory headed by Dr. Martin Breaner, federal government

conducts scientific experiments. The victim of the experiments is a little girl - Jane,

whom the doctor abducts and names Eleven. During those tests, Eleven comes into contact

with a monster. And that is where the door to the other dimension opens. Eleven possesses

psychokinetic and telepathic abilities, which she got as a result of being experimented

on or because when her mother was pregnant with her, she underwent chemical experimentation.

I’m not quite sure. If you know, let me know please.

When a boy named Will Byers is abducted by the monster, his friends go in search for

him and find Eleven. That’s how they meet her.

Then they investigate the lab, strange things and disappearances while trying to get rid

of the monster. It’s definitely thrilling and keeps you

on your toes. And – and, this is very exciting, there’s

going to be a season 4, and hopefully, we’ll see it on our screens in 2021.

“Killing Eve”. According to Wikipedia, it’s a British black comedy-drama spy thriller

television series and this description fits it very well.

The storyline is very interesting and unlike any other TV series that I’ve watched.

The series revolves around two women - a psychopathic assassin Villanelle and Eve Polastri – an

agent working for British intelligence and their weird connection. Working as a spy isn’t

what Eve expected. She’s bored but her life takes a sharp and unexpected turn when she’s

assigned to capture Villanelle. What else I liked very much about this show

is that it takes us all around the world and the characters speak with different accents;

this allows you to really work on your listening skills and shows you diversity.

“Veronica Mars”. This is a story about once being a popular teenage girl that became

an outcast and started helping her father – a private investigator after her friend

was murdered. She’s clever, sassy, sly, witty, with a snarky sense of humor and she’s

a bad-ass. She reminds me of Nancy Drew. Veronica helps her father investigate and

solve cases as well as her friends’ and schoolmates mysteries.

I really love and vibe with the main character as well as the actress that plays it. This

is perfect for those who enjoy detective shows. But I have got to be honest with you, the

fourth season was really anti-climactic for me.

“How I met your mother” This sitcom starts with Ted Mosby – the main character - sitting

with his children and telling them the story of how he met their mother. It revolves around

5 characters and each of them is quirky in their own way. Every episode is a flashback

of events and hilarious situations from Ted’s life each of which leads to him meeting their

mother. It’s a very cool show and it’s impossible

to not enjoy it. It’s also impossible not to catch Barney Stinson’s catch words and

phrases. Smalwille. It’s an interpretation of the

Superman story. If you like it and similar genres, you’ll love this TV series. It is

so good. They don’t just show some supernatural stuff,

but also a real life, like Clark (the main character) and his friends’ school years

and some real life-things in combination with supernatural occurrences.

Clark - AKA Superman - lives on a farm and was raised by a very honest and decent family

and he grew up to become an honorable, fair, faithful young man with a strong sense of

right and wrong and, of course, with a big secret. So, he and a couple of his friends,

who know his secret, live a double life of being normal teenagers and fighting with all

sorts of strange, uncanny and mysterious things. Of course it’s a teenage love story: the

story of Clark Kent and Lana Lang. And then, it’s also the love story of Clark Kent and

Lois Lane that - I’m sure - you’ve heard of. And rumor has it that we might see Clark

Kent and Lois Lane on screens again. Personally, I’m anticipating this.

The office. When you learn a language it’s important to learn about its culture as wellб

and a lot Americans say that in a way it depicts their culture. It’s not a documentary but

a mockumentary. It portrays the lives of office workers and it’s filled with American humor.

The characters are unique, funny, quirky and relatable. I watched it with a great pleasure.

“The 10th Kingdom” is an American fairytale fantasy mini-series. It’s only 1 season

that consists of five episodes. If you like fairytales and like to watch shows

about magic, this one is for you. I’ve probably watched it 5 times. I love it.

It takes you from a modern day New York City straight into a parallel world of fairy that

consists of 9 Kingdoms that our heroes got into. They now have to go through lots of

adventures to get back home and come to terms with the fact that the fairytales they thought

were just a product of someone’s imagination are real and that magic exists.

It’s such a fascinating and adorable mini-series. I highly recommend it for the ones who enjoy

this genre. “Friends“ Yes Friends. This iconic show

doesn’t need an overview I think. Everybody knows it. I just could not not include it

in this video because I just love it so much. But if you’re one of those people who are

like “ blah - Friends, I hate it. This is so cliché. Couldn’t you come up with something

more unique” – No, I couldn’t. So this is a show that I watched in my native

language and like a thousand times in English and every time I’ve enjoy it, it never gets

old. And when you watch and listen to something that much, those words and phrases and even

sentences, from it, stick with you and, eventually, you start using them in your everyday life.

Sometimes when you watch something more than ones you realize that you catch some words

or phrases that you couldn’t understand before or you didn’t pay attention to them,

because you couldn’t make them out. Well, this shows that your listening skills have

improved. And in general this is a very positive show

about regular people‘s lives. They use vocabulary we can use just in our everyday lives.

So, guys. That was the list. Try them out and let me know what you think about them.

I also really really love “Criminal Minds”, ‘Gray’s Anatomy”, “Dexter” and a

lot more, but as I said they use very niche vocabulary. Nonetheless if your listening

skills are on a good level and you’re ready to improve your vocabulary, go ahead and watch

something like this. As your vocabulary grows, as you learn more

phrases, as your listening skills improve it’ll become easier and easier and a little

more enjoyable to watch TV shows in English. The secret is just consistency.

If you’re worrying about the fact that you still need to search for the meanings of some

words and idioms or still need to translate them in your head from time to time - worry

no more! It’s absolutely normal. It’s a process that takes time. So give it time

and be consistent. This is the only way unless your brain is a computer and you can just

download a language on it. But I promise you that if you don’t give

up and keep working you will be very surprised that, one day, you can just sit down and watch

whatever you want in English, understand it and enjoy it. You may occasionally still be

using a dictionary or Google, because it’s just impossible

to know everything.