How to improve your English if you like K-dramas
English is a ticket flight around the world, a key to open new opportunities. Knowing all these facts, English is still a goal to reach for most people. Learning English doesn’t have to be a boring chore, because we can start to study in the most enjoyable ways through watching TV series, especially Korean Dramas. Below, you will know more how to make your learning path be effective, but still fun!
Why TV Series Are Great for Learning English
TV Series such as Korean Drama can be a resource to learn in a relaxing way. You can feel entertained, chill, happy, but get to know new vocabulary, various sentences, or even the common slang that people usually use daily. Watching K-dramas that have Korean as the main language, will help to encourage you to think and understand more about english. But still, you will feel comfort because you also enjoy the story line, scenery, movie shoot, and the back song as well. These combinations make you feel less effort in the learning journey, compared to the theoretical book on the desk that you should read every single day. And in fact, somehow TV series help you faster because you tend to be happy to imitate “the script line” from the dialog on the TV and it connects stronger to your memory.
Starting with K-Dramas
K-dramas (Korean dramas) are hugely popular worldwide, and many are available with English subtitles.
Example:
“Crash Landing on You” is a K-drama that tells the story of a South Korean woman who accidentally ends up in North Korea. The show is filled with heartwarming moments, humour, and some English dialogue. Watching this series with English subtitles can help you pick up new words and phrases while enjoying a great story.
Tips for Learning English with TV Series
- Start with Language Reactor: Begin by adding a “plugin” of language reactor to get English subtitles. Language Reactor can help you to show subtitles in several languages. You can even use 2 different languages (Ex : Korean and English). When you feel stuck and have no idea what’s going on for the dialogue, you can simply click the word that you feel is hard, and Language Reactor will explain to you the meaning and the explanation about that word.
- Imitate: Rewatch and pause the movie scene. Try to imitate some of the speech that you like. This will help you to practise your pronunciation, also help you to absorb new vocab, sentence, and slang.
- Write notes: Write some words that you feel stuck, hard, challenging to remember at your notes or phone. This will help you to build a strong memorise about your vocabulary
- Chill and be patient: After one series, maybe you are not automatically being a pro. But over time, you feel that you understand more, connect more, comfort more with English subtitles. And at the end of the day, you would have already got used to the English language daily.
K-dramas is one of the option that you can use as study resource. Moreover, you need to practice more and get feedback for your learning journey. Check The Live and Speak English Challenge course with Nesh to improve your English faster. So, grab your popcorn, pick a series you love, and start learning today!
