In this video I'm going to talk about TV shows

that helped me learn new English vocabulary

There are lots of words that I still do not know

that are from particular topics of our lives

I don't feel this urge to actually sit down and learn them

but there're certain things that I can do every day

to imrpove my english

and you can totally do that

this thing is super easy

is just watching a TV show in English

I'm going to talk about my most favourite TV shows

that hook me up, that make me watch them everyday

and because I'm watching them everyday in English, I'm learning new words everytime

If you're interested, please continue watching this video

The first show I'm going to talk about is the Silicon Valley

because I live in San Fransisco and the Silicon Valley is really close

some people consider San Fransisco part of the Silicon Valley

There're loads of offices here and I also run my own start up

The Silicon Valley show is a high-light of my weekend

Becuase every sunday I wait for the new show to come out

They always talk about a lot of things that I connect with the start up life

like fund raising and legal stuff

and actually the Silicon Valley life

and there're so many particular things that you can learn from the show

What?! If I told you there's an app on the market that very...

No-no! You wait till you're inside, ok?

You haven't even got a bottle of water yet

Head in, I'll meet you in there. I just need to finish this call.

Sure. Cool with "K"

ok

For example, pitching your company

you will hear a lot of pitches during the show

you will learn how to make the elevator pitch

you will see bad examples of pitching your company just like this one

you would be able, if you are running your company

you would be able to imagine yourself in the same situation

Jin Yang, what are you doing? This is Palo Alto

People are lunatics about smoking here!

You don't enjoy all the freedoms that you have in China

Also the Silicon Valley show talks a lot about the Silicon Valley culture

like drinking kombucha

I actually have

an empty bottle just here with me

About quitting smoking because nobody smokes here

Everyone is about healthy lifestyle

Houses that they show are really typical for the Silicon Valley

They talk about pricing

They actually use the actual meeting spots

For example, the Forth Season's hotel in Palo Alto

It was in some series of the show

It really gives this insight in the Silicon Valley lifestyle

Well done

So, what kind of terms do you think she's gone lay on us?

There's a lot of work to do

But you certainly knew how to play your audience. So...

I'd say it looks good

And as I said Silicon Valley show has a lot of

vocabulary that is connected to fund raising like

which is an offer from you to investor

with your company's valuation, with how much money they gona invest

Guys, if you're dreaming of running your company in the Silicon Valley

Or if you're interested in IT stuff

Silicon Valley is a must-see show

I love it. It's my number one right now.

The second show that I really like

and where I take all of my legal vocabulary from is the Suits

I have started watching them back, I think, in 2013

If you're interested in becoming a layer in the States

I think this the first thing you should start with

Watch the Suits

You will get aquainted with the Legal culture

With the East Coast culture

It's completely different from the Silicon Valley

Everybody wears suits - the Suits

And those layers, they drive cool cars, they go to cool parties

This will give you an impression of how the best law firms function in the United States

They want a trial? I'll give'em a goddamn trial

You're on it

The example of words that you can learn from this movie is

When you go to trial you actually go to the court room

And negotiate with the judge and present yourself

Yup, you know what I'm talking about, right?

How they talk to the judge. They call the judge "Your Honor"

So all of those legal things, legal lifestyle

I would say Silicon Valley is for intermediate/upper-intermediate

This - I would say upper-intermediate level of English

because there're loads of specific words that you would not know

sometimes they would prevent you from understanding the plot

if you're an intermediate and want watch The Suits

I would recommend switching on English subtitles

Your Honor, this the fraudulent attorney I spoke with you about before trial

We asked that he'd rather refrain from speaking

or be removed from the court with an immediate rulling

to dismiss this case with prejudice

Other words that I've learned from this show

are

FRAUDULENT ATTORNEY which is like FAKE ATTORNEY

"Stop the case". All of those lexics

Which means that you have some particular attitude to the case

before you actually start the case

so you have some of your own interets

This is, by the way, how I advise you guys to translate the words

do not translate them into your own language but try to guess

their meaning from the context...

and maybe use english-to-english vocabulary so you would be able

to learn the word with its meaning and not with its translation into your own language

Rachel, what's going on?

I am not getting into the bar

We have a problem. This is about Mike

I have a way to get you into the bar. Who wants to catch?

What do you mean - no? What's wrong with you?

What's wrong with me is I don't feel like going back to prison

Another very importnat topic in this show is taking

The exam that you need to get into Master's in Legal Education in the United States

The exam that you need to take to become a layer in the States

And they actually shot a real bar exam

so they show how the experience look like

And they show Rachael who is the main character

Their preparing for LSAT

And I know many people are, who are watching this vlog, will be taking some of those exams

So I think it's really useful

And even if you don't have anything to do with the Legal sphere

Like me, for example, it was still really good time

for me watching The Suits

The next show is actually the first show I started watching in English

This is the first show that I've seen from the very beginning up to the very end

So I started with House MD and the I went onto Sex in the City

But House MD was very helpful in terms of medical English

and in terms of understanding how American medical system works.

Becuase when you watch House MD, you get an idea how

Doctor's cabinet looks like, how a doctor talks to you

You're using your inhaler?

All the time. Count through one a week.

You're sure you're using it right?

Do I look like an idiot?

No

Why don't you show me how your inhaler works.

Jerk

And there're loads of words that you can learn from House MD

For example, the easiest one is INHALER - the thing that you use to fight your asthma

Others like names of diseases

I feel this is really helpful, it also helped me

When I came here

I knew how the medical system in America worked

Becuase I watched like 6 seasons of House MD

You are learning new medical stuff

You're learning how to describe different deseases

Definitely watch House MD

They also talk about medical exam so if you're looking to become a doctors in the States

This is the number one thing that you should do

How long has your daughter had trouble breathing?

About a week now

The best dads wait two or more

Yeah, no, it's not like it's serious

I checked online and it's asthma or something

Or something is the number one killer of teens with no medical degree

Needless to say his humour is amazing

You're gona laugh for hunderds of times during just one episode

You're gona love it

So House MD - please watch if you're interested in medical English.

The forth show is the House of Cards.

House of Cards is the show where you get aquainted with an American political system

You see a guy who wants to become a president

How he actually becomes president

though sabotage

gossip, bribes, whatever

All of the hidious political schemes

They are shown is this show

There are loads of things that you can learn from it as well

My personal favourite

is how the main actor says - yes

This is this East Coast accent, I guess

an upper class accent

So his tone - you have to listen to it

You, J.Underwood,

you solemnly swear

I, Franscis J. Underwood do solemnly swear

That I will faithfully execute

That I will faithfully execute

The Office of President

of the United States

The Office of Pre...yes, here we go again

Secretary of States, that's what I wanted

That's all I wanted

That's what I was promised

And now, here I am - President of these United States

As you know guys, I come from Russia

And they say, our president - Vladimir Putin - has actually watched this show

I guess if you're a politician or you want to become a politician, interested in Politics

House of Cards - must-see

the only thing that you should know is that

English there is really complicated

There are times when I do not get what they mean

And I guess, your level should be advanced to watch it

without vocabulary

or you should watch it subtitles

maybe sometimes even in your own language

Because there're some many things, if you're not good in Politics

understanding them in a foreign language like English

would make it even more diffcult

please feel free to try and let me know

if you have already seen House of Cards

Let me know if you're getting the idea of what they're trying to say

And the last but not the least in the Madman

the Madman is the show about marketing and advertizing in the united States in the 60s

Everything takes place in New York

New York in the 60s is amazing, like the fashion that they have there

And the music is adorable

But the most important thing there is that they teach you

How to tell a story

Storytelling is a really important skill for any enterpreneur

Becuase you need to tell a story to your customers

You need to tell a story to your investors

You need a story to your partners

In the Madman you see the main character - Don Draper

presenting, everyday he's presenting to

his company is an advertizing company

He's presenting advertizing ideas to their clients

it's clean, simple

and it's tindalizingy incomplete

what's missing? - one thing

pass the Heinz

You mean the Heinz ketchup?

It's Heinz, it only means one thing

it feels like half an ad

the greatest thing you have working for you is not the

photo you take or the picture you paint

it's the imagination of the consumer

they have no budget, they have no time limit

and if you can get into that space, your ad can run all day

And you know what? Heinz actually bought that ad from the movie creators

they paid them a lot of money

They actually placed it on air

So I think great job was done behind that show

So if you're interested in Marketing. If you're interested in how people create Ads

and how creative marketing works

The Madman is definitely something you need to see

So these are my top 5 favourite shows to learn English

I've given you some examples how to learn English through watching TV shows

Let me know which TV shows you are watching

Or if you have watched any of those that I have mentioned

I hope you guys enjoyed watching this viedo