I talked about American TV series with wind

Tara 2021-12-22 08:01:23

wind is the author of this answer
http://www.zhihu.com/question/19806142

This book review is actually quite inconsistent, but I don’t want to put it in the diary, just write it here.

Wind is the PM who speaks English fluently in the previous app. , Both he and I are fans of American TV series, and we have watched a lot of American TV series. There are hundreds of them together. I agree with him that American drama is used as a learning material, which is very helpful to the learners of the top 20% of English proficiency, but the question is, what is the best American drama to learn. The

low-level American drama actually does not exist, and he himself is also troubled. , Because American TV shows are not suitable for any low level at all. Of course, the standard that can be used in American TV shows is pretty good. It’s okay to take a look at friends, but the problem is that after watching friends, many people still don’t understand. How can you learn some more elegant words and expressions bit by bit through American dramas, and gradually expand your vocabulary?

I discussed with him for an afternoon, and finally selected some American dramas with relatively advanced vocabulary level, large language content, and difficult language.

American dramas are generally divided into these categories:
sitcom, scifi, crime, medicine, YA, political, In drama, history, mini series

, in medicine, crime and scifi, each episode includes about 10-20 medical and scientific vocabulary. It really seems that the other dialogue parts are not difficult, it is easy to understand, and there is no Large quarrel speeches and discussion paragraphs are actually not particularly difficult.

Crime contains a lot of slang and is not suitable as a learning material.

Mini series is similar to movies, but the continuity is stronger than that of movies. The biggest problem with movies and American dramas is that they have a wide variety of words, which makes their words have a high degree of non-repetition, which means that every movie will suddenly appear a new word. But this word may no longer appear in other movies, but we still need to learn this kind of words, because after the vocabulary reaches 10,000, the words encountered afterwards will be accumulated by repeated encounters on different occasions. It’s difficult—most of the words appear frequently below 2%, so we have to look at one and eliminate one. The mini series is the best choice for finding this kind of rare vocabulary environment that does not repeat vocabulary. Any Mini Series can be used.

YA is the simplest and most fashionable usage. Youth idol dramas generally have relatively superficial themes, and there will be many occasions of love, but they basically go back and forth with those few usages, and the overall vocabulary. the following will be lower than 1W
YA branch belonging to the drama

and see drama, the difficulty of crossing points than the relatively large, to be discussed

on the political will and history of significant aspects of the very large, similar to the White House, House of cards, Rome and the like

according to My discussion with Wind is roughly listed as follows: The

political
west wing should be the most advanced, the speed of speech, the depth and breadth of the vocabulary, the English accent of everyone in it is extremely, extremely pure, and everyone is well received. Education, a drama containing a lot of debates, speeches, speeches and controversies, all kinds of languages ​​are so cool and so cool that they are well-deserved as the best model for the corpus of

American senior intellectuals. Newsroom is similar to its screenwriter, with similar styles, but the quality of the TV series itself Not as good as

boston legal, which also has a lot of tall words, especially its daily office language is very witty and playful, using a lot of insinuations and puns, very worthy of fun, and in court crossings and debates are very tall, various sentence patterns The rhetoric is very atmospheric and very provocative

BL is a derivative drama of Practice. Practice is a leader in legal and political dramas. The level of language usage is also very high. The crossing part is very exciting and more realistic. The protagonist team often loses. Unlike the protagonist in BL who shoots airbrushes and abuses people casually, but P drama Mainly about criminal cases rather than civil cases, so the category may be unpleasant in

life dramas. Gilmore Girls has the best dialogue and the widest use of vocabulary. There are often difficult big words, from the speed of speech and the use of words. Using allusions, you can clearly understand that the author

can see that the difficulty of the lines is different by comparing the playing language Gilmore Girls and Parenthood casually. Both dramas are starring the actor Lorelai, but she speaks very simply in Parenthood, and it is very

different. The one with a vocabulary level close to GG is Everwood, also known as the male version of GG, but overall the TV series is rather boring

. The will and grace vocabulary level in sitcom is quite high, but the vocabulary is also very much, and it is so dense. Different from GG’s allusions, which are mostly quoted from books, movies, and music, sitcom’s stalks are mostly popular culture, and belong to that only people of that era can understand other people, and it doesn’t make any sense to understand it as a foreign language speaker. In fact, including Friends, they are actually very unsuitable for learning English,

like Mom and Dad Romance and 2 B Girls. They contain extremely dense slang. I don’t think raw meat can understand the plot, but it’s a lot. I don’t know where to laugh at the time

and generally sitcom has canned laughter, usually people don’t like it. In recent years, comedies without canned laughter have become more and more popular, such as Modern Family, 30 rock, Scrubs, etc. I personally feel that there is no canned food. Laughter's American dramas have a higher level of achievement. The far-flung ones are Malcolm in the Middle (although they have never won an Emmy for best comedy), and the closer ones are Scrubs and Modern Familly. These three are quite good-looking, of which the difficulty They are MF<30 rock<Malcolm in the Middle<the office<Scrubs

Another point that needs to be paid attention to is that the achievement of sitcom in British dramas is generally far higher than sitcom in American dramas. Almost any one that is taken out directly kills the best Emmy comedy. This is because of the production of British dramas. The model is different, and almost does not rely on advertising, so sitcoms are very short, accept them when you see them, and guarantee super high quality. Moreover, sitcom in British dramas truly achieves the ultimate in TV and film art, almost never relying on fabricating paragraphs and quotes. To create laughs, most of the time it is the laughs brought about by the conflict between the characters and the plot itself, and more often the flashbacks of the camera and special scene visits are used to create a special humorous atmosphere. American dramas are more of It's a spoof, that is, using goose feathers to scratch your squeaky nest to make you laugh hard, while the British drama is a serious joke that makes you laugh from the heart. This is more important than IT madman and life. It’s easy to see

how many American dramas have been watched. If you count them, Frasier is the most suitable

comedy to win the 5-word Emmy Award. The quality does not need to be said. Just looking at the language,

there are almost no citations, most of them. They all rely on plot transitions and character conflicts to create laughs, so the language is not obscure and the

language content is very rich: the protagonist is two doctors, and they use the language style of intellectuals. Words like candour, priggish, irreparable, and infuriating are all spoken. The language blurted out, the nanny is British and speaks British English, and the old man is a retired policeman. He speaks with a lot of life-like phrases and informal expressions, such as no day at the beach, keep the trap shut, haul ass, Suck a lemon, etc., and Frasier’s colleagues spoke of the most common expressions used by young people in the United States. They are often expressed in short sentences and slang. The intersection of these three languages ​​can have an intuitive and systematic understanding of contemporary American language and expand the vocabulary. It is a good choice to improve your language skills and pay attention to the style.

In addition, Frasier himself is a radio host, and his accent is quite pure, suitable for imitation.

But more importantly, the connotation and spirit of this film is very popular. It shows how the real rich people, or the middle class and middle class, enjoy life. There is no party, promiscuity and alcoholism, but more. Many elegant entertainment projects, reading, symphony, etc., while maintaining the innocent ridicule and jokes of this so-called upper class society, occasionally let the protagonist and their dad get in touch with each other, this film is the best The place is like that, it shows how a real gentleman should live his life well







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  • Gerard 2021-12-22 08:01:23

    The name of such a good drama was wrong, thanks to the radio subtitles team! I really miss those middle-aged American jokes who were elegant and pretending in their 40s in the 90s. They were neither vulgar nor selling cute and rotten middle-aged jokes. Great!

  • Gerard 2022-03-22 09:02:04

    180705-180725 Are you happy?

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