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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
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Today I want to give you nine TV show recommendations
for improving your English.
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Let's get started.
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First I'd like to tell you about a word that
is a little different than TV show.
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It's a little more specific and it perfectly
describes these first seven TV shows.
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The word is sitcom, sitcom.
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A sitcom is a comedy type TV show.
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It's not dramatic, it's not about crime, it's
not about death or thrills, it's just about
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family, or friends, or daily life.
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It's a sitcom, and usually it's a little bit
comedic or funny.
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The first ones I want to talk to you about
are two TV shows that are about friends.
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The first one is, as you know, Friends.
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This is a very common TV show for English
learners to use.
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I think it's the most used TV show for learning
English, so I definitely recommend trying
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to find Friends, either on a DVD, or on Amazon.com,
or looking on the internet.
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Maybe some local shop in your town has some
English DVDs you could watch Friends.
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This is just about a group of friends living
their daily life.
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The second TV show about friends is called
Seinfeld.
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Seinfeld.
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Now, this TV show is probably one of the most
common and most well known TV shows in the
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US because this TV show is known for being
a show about nothing.
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Really, there's not much plot, there's not
much thrill, but it's just about some friends
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lives, living in the city.
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I think it's quite funny.
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Some episodes are funnier than others, but
I recommend Friends and Seinfeld as two TV
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shows about a group of friends living together.
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The second category are TV shows about family.
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Now, these TV shows are maybe a little bit
older.
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They're from the 1990s, like the previous
two, Friends and Seinfeld, but I think this
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type of language is very commonly used in
daily speech today, so that's why I chose
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these for my recommended list.
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These two TV shows about family are Full House
and Everybody Loves Raymond.
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Full House is a TV show about a family living
together in a big house.
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They have some children, there's aunts and
uncles, there are a lot of different things
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that go on.
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It's funny, it's cute, it's a classic American
TV show.
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The second one, Everybody Loves Raymond, is
about a man named Raymond who is a sports
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writer, and about his family, and his grandmother,
his mother and his brother, and all the people
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in their lives.
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They are an Italian-American family, which
means they are very expressive.
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They don't have any problem telling their
family members that they are angry, or that
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they are happy.
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It's a very entertaining TV show and it's
another classic American TV show about family.
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The next two are TV shows about high school
and young people.
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Even if you are not a young person, if you're
not in high school, I think these shows are
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still great for you because you can learn
about American culture and some slang that
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you might not have known before.
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These two TV shows are The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air and Boy Meets World.
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These two TV shows are about young people,
teenagers going to school, living with their
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families, and the main characters are the
high schoolers.
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The other TV shows that I mentioned have young
people in them but the main characters aren't
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always the young people.
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In these two shows the main characters are
the high schoolers, and you can see their
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daily struggles, their love, their hates,
their experience with school, with friends.
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It's great for learning more about American
culture and also learning some expressions
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that are used in very common casual conversations.
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The final three TV shows are modern TV shows,
because the other ones are from the 1990s,
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2000 era, but these next three are modern
TV shows.
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I'm going to tell you about them on my website,
so please click on this link and it will take
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you to my website where you can hear and find
out about three more TV shows that are modern,
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and are great for learning English.
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Thanks so much for watching this video, and
let me know below, do you have any other TV
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show recommendations for learning English?
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Have you seen any of these TV shows?
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Have they helped you learn English?
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Thanks so much and I'll talk to you later.
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Goodbye.
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