Watching TV shows and movies is one of the best ways to improve your language skills. Being able to understand movies and TV shows can not only improve your communication skills, it can also improve your sense of achievement, so that you can actually “enjoy” the language, not just “learn” the language. If you want your target language to sound native, you need to watch a lot of TV shows and movies, picking up native words and phrases, absorbing the cultures, learning jokes etc.

In this series, we publish the notes on watching the Office (the American version), including important words and phrases, cultural annotations and sentence mining. The Office is a very popular show in the western world and it is also very fun to watch and rewatch.

This note also includes some sentence mining, which is a way to learn new languages by understanding sentences instead of isolated words. It fosters a focus on general meaning with real-time contexts. It is easier to remember and more useful because you can directly use those sentences in your conversations. It will make you sound more native.

Readers can go over these notes while watching the show. Keep reviewing these notes to master these words and phrases and sentences, and then go back and rewatch the TV show until you fully understand everything.