oh yeah this is Ethan your real-life
English fluency coach and in this lesson
we are going to talk about one of the
best TV series for English learners and
what makes it the best I just want to
quickly reintroduce Chad another fluency
coach if you have been find real-life
English for a while then I'm sure you'll
recognize him
but it has been a long time since he
taught a lesson he's going to explain to
you why friends is one of the absolute
best series for English learners like
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alright without further ado here's Chad
what a hilarious timeless TV show I mean
I'm from Australia and I grew up
watching and re watching every episode
all 10 seasons and I learned so much
about American culture and what's so
amazing but not really so surprising if
you know friends is that even ten years
after ending it's still one of the most
popular and culturally impactful TV
shows ever people all around the world
are still watching friends like crazy in
fact on a global scale is getting even
more popular Netflix for example lost
she paid 118 million dollars for the
rights to stream all 10 seasons this
article from a British newspaper
explains it all
and here are just a few quotes France
has a quality of its own kind
while the fashions might have had an
expiration date the jokes did not the
scripts were sharp and funny full of
smart wit proving comedy with mass
appeal doesn't have to be dumbed down
there's one 90s trend that never went
away the story of six New Yorkers who
hang out in impossibly large apartments
and drink copious amounts of coffee at
ridiculous times of the day friends was
and still is a cultural phenomenon but
apart from all the fun and being a
global cultural phenomenon this final
quote best explains why friends is the
perfect sauce material for our power
learning method friends has become a
trusted text for linguists looking to
understand changes in the speech
patterns of American English in fact
back in 2012 when Justin Ethan and I
started real-life English with a
combined 20 years of experience
traveling language learning and teaching
English learners from all around the
world we started to discover an
extremely fascinating patent happening
with some of the most fluent speakers
that we met a surprisingly high
percentage of them were huge fans of
friends and even more interesting most
taught themselves English they
demonstrated a deep and natural
understanding of native speaking culture
humor and even nonverbal aspects like
body language and some cultural norms
but what totally blew us away is that
most had never left their country the
deeper we looked the more we realized
that there really was something amazing
happening the academic research reported
that friends was indeed the perfect TV
series to teach and learn not only
native speech patterns and real-life
conversation but also discourse markers
slang as well as jokes and a ton of
American culture so it made 2015 after
three years of rigorous research and
development of the real-life power
learning method both in the classroom
and with the fluency circle we were
finally ready to launch publicly the
world's first English fluency course not
only two basis lessons 100% on fun and
engaging TV series but also the
to focus on and teach real life native
speech paths I really could not agree
more with Chad I really hope that you
enjoyed this quick lesson and are you
frustrated when you can't understand
fast speaking natives do you want to
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