Hi Rainbow, you could watch the BBC/CNN news for formal English. Why not click onto italki Resources at the top for English & you will be given a lot of podcasts & websites to look up.

I'm with Jura on this one: BBC used to be the gold standard for formal English (nowadays it's not that good, but it's still worth watching), and you can also watch CNN to get a taste of American English. Also, I find the Discovery channel and National Geographic quite good for learning English (and a little bit about science and nature =) ). And of course, "The Simpsons" and "Family guy" are a great and funny way to improve your informal English. Also, check out the British series "The Worst Week Of My Life", and "Coupling" (it's the British equivalent of "Friends"). When it comes to movies, there are a lot, but here are some that I really liked, and that might be interesting for you: - Stranger than Fiction - Napoleon Dynamite (it's a bit strange, but a lot of people, including me, find it hilarious) - 40 Year Old Virgin - Shallow Hal - Superbad - Barber of Siberia (my whole family liked it, I didn't watch it myself) - American History X (this movie is not a comedy, it handles the subject of racism in the USA) - The Last King Of Scotland - Catch me if you can These are just suggestions - I'm sure that there are a lot of great TV series and movies that I couldn't think of right now =)

I was gonna suggest FRIENDS but you are already in to it now.^^ Try checking out ENGLISH Radio Broadcasts over the net, and learn from the DJ's talking...

if you want to learn how to speak english informally .... then for usa ... there are programmes like gossip girl, family guy, simpsons you can find a lot at sidereel.com or youtube.com for british then generally you will have to look at soaps like eastenders - again on youtube and australian ditto - home and away on youtube hope this helped x