Why I started watching Doctor Who
A few days ago I was wondering how to improve my English skills when I suddenly realized that, in a certain way, I had already improved my comprehension of written English without noticing it.
For years I've read English forums about movies, books or videogames, initially struggling a bit, but now I'm able to understand the overall meaning of almost anything I read whitout problems.
So I decided to apply the same strategy to improve the other abilities, i.e. writing, listening and speaking.
In particular, regarding to the listening skill, I've chosen to enjoy a good TV series. Obviously my choice fell on the best-known British series: Doctor Who.
I'm now watching the season two and I love it. The first episodes didn't thrill me enough, but going on, I started to love the characters and to enjoy the plot.
Now I have to quit, it's time to watch another episode!
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Why I started watching Doctor Who
A few days ago I was wondering how to improve my English skills when I suddenly realized that, in a certain way, I had already improved my comprehension of written English without noticing it.For years I've read English forums about movies, books or videogames, initially struggling a bit, but now I'm able to understand the overall meaning of almost anything I read whitout problems.
So I decided to apply the same strategy to improve in other areas i.e. writing, listening and speaking.
In particular, for listening I've chosen to enjoy a good TV series. Obviously my choice fell on the best-known British series: Doctor Who.
I'm now watching season two and I love it. The first episodes didn't thrill me enough, but going on, I started to love the characters and to enjoy the plot.
Now I have to quit, it's time to watch another episode!
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I think I will never be able to learn and pronounce all the alien names, "raxacoricofallapatorius" just to pick one at random.
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Haha, I totally second the prospect of Doctor Who improving your listening skills, (and British accent besides) if only for the ridiculous speed and spontaneity of the script (like any other Mark Gatiss/ Russel T. Davies script). You'd better improve and get used to the terms/alien names because it only gets faster later (in a good way). IMO, David Tennant's seasons have the best one-liners, Matt Smith's season has the most random exchanges and Peter Capaldi's seasons have the best speeches/monologues/voiceovers I've heard in a TV show. Have yourself a "faaantastic" couple months.
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Doctor Who? Never heard of him/her.
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