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TV SHOWS: FIND A SHOW YOU LIKE. WATCH IT EVERY DAY.
AFTER A WHILE, YOU WILL START THINKING IN ENGLISH.
BEGINNERS: Watch with subtitles in your language.
INTERMEDIATE: Watch with subtitles in your language, then try English.
ADVANCED: Watch with English subtitles. Then try without.
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Or rent DVDs in your local library.
YOYO's TOP 3
FRIENDS
INSECURE
Issa Dee navigates work, friendships, and family in sunny Los Angeles.
watch it on: HBO MAX
seasons: 4
FRIENDS
Six friends experience marriage, divorce, new jobs, and much more.
watch it on: HBO MAX
seasons: 10
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
FAMILY
MODERN FAMILY
Issa Dee navigates work, friends, and family in L.A.
friends, and family in L.A.
watch it on: PEACOCKTV
seasons: 11
THE SIMPSONS
A parody on American culture with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
watch it on: DISNEY
seasons: 32
BLACKISH
The Johnsons deal with cultural issues in an upper-class white neighborhood.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 7
DRAMA
FAMILY
BREAKING BAD
A desperate high-school chemistry teacher becomes involved in cooking meth.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 5
FAMILY
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
An upper-class New York woman is sentenced to 1.5 years in a women's prison.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 7
FAMILY
DEXTER
Meet Dexter Morgan: Miami Police employee at day and serial killer at night.
watch it on: AMAZON
seasons: 8
WORK
THE OFFICE
A parody of office life with a difficult boss, unhappy workers and a lot of fun.
watch it on: PEACOCKTV
seasons: 9
MAD MEN
Office life in one of the best New York Advertising agencies in the 1960s.
watch it on: AMAZON
seasons: 7
ALLY McBEAL
Ally McBeal works in a law firm with new colleagues and an old boyfriend.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 5
MEDICAL
FAMILY
GREY'S ANATOMY
The professional and personal lives of medical interns and their mentors.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 17
FAMILY
DR.QUINN,
MEDICINE WOMAN
In 1967 a doctor moves from Boston to the Wild West with her husband.
watch it on: AMAZON
seasons: 6
FAMILY
NIP/TUCK
Two plastic surgeons - a family man and a playboy - have a practice in Miami.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 6
POLITICS
SCANDAL
Olivia Pope is the best at crisis management in and around the White House.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 7
THE AMERICANS
Two Soviet KGB officers pose as an American couple in the 1980s.
watch it on: AMAZON
seasons: 6
M.A.S.H.
Three army doctors work in a mobile army hospital during the Korean war.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 11
GLEE
A teacher with a passion for music prepares her students for musical glory.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 6
NASHVILLE
Love, family, music, and lots of drama in Nashville, the US country music capital.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 6
EMPIRE
Family members struggle to control the hip-hop music company they founded.
watch it on: AMAZON
seasons: 6
MUSIC
SOAP OPERAS
FAMILY
MEDICAL
JANE THE VIRGIN
After a mix-up at the hospital, Jane the virgin is pregnant. What now?
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 5
FAMILY
MEDICAL
THE YOUNG
AND THE RESTLESS
Issa Dee navigates work, friends, and family in L.A.
friends, and family in L.A.
watch it on: ABC
seasons: 47
FAMILY
MEDICAL
MELROSE PLACE
A group of 20-somethings lives in an apartment complex in Los Angeles.
watch it on: AMAZON
seasons: 7
SCI-FI
FAMILY
MEDICAL
FIREFLY
Wild West in Space. The adventures of Captain Mal Reynolds and his crew.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 1
FAMILY
MEDICAL
FUTURAMA
Philip Fry was frozen for 1000 years. He wakes up in a new world in 2999.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 10
FAMILY
MEDICAL
THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Strange stories from other dimensions: You have entered the Twilight Zone.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 5
TIME TRAVEL
BRIDGERTON
When British royal families try to marry off their daughters, drama is not far.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 1
THE CROWN
The fictional story of the British Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 4
OUTLANDER
A married British nurse time travels to 17th century Scotland and falls in love.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 5
FANTASY
MUSIC
FAMILY
GAME OF THRONES
Nine noble families fight for control of Westeros with swords, magic and dragons.
watch it on: HBO
seasons: 8
FAMILY
SUPERNATURAL
Two brothers hunt demons, monsters, and other supernatural creatures.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 15
FAMILY
STRANGER THINGS
A young boy disappears, and the town discovers supernatural forces.
watch it on: NETFLIX
seasons: 4
VAMPIRES
FAMILY
TRUE BLOOD
A waitress and a vampire fall in love in a small town in Louisiana. Trouble awaits.
watch it on: HULU
seasons: 7
FAMILY
BEING HUMAN
Three roommates are living together: a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire.
watch it on: AMAZON
seasons: 4
FAMILY
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Buffy wants to be a normal student, but she has to save the world from vampires.
watch it on: AMAZON
seasons: 7