How to learn English while having fun

by Thomas Toth

Movies (Original language with English subtitles, then without subtitles. If difficult, Hungarian
subtitles first.)

Harry Potter (series) - Good, easy to understand movies.

Notting Hill 1999 - Romantic comedy, contains both British, and American English. Good for
learning the difference.

The Hunger Games - Entertaining movie with easy to understand language.

Jurassic Park - Entertaining action movie with easy to understand language, with child actors.

Forrest Gump - Entertaining Comedy, Drama. Main character has speaking problem, so uses
simple English

The King’s Speech - About a King, who has speaking disabilities and learns proper English.

The Break-up - Funny Comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn

The Hangover (trilogy) - Easy to understand funny comedy

Love Actually - Great comedy to get you into the Christmas spirit while also learning British
English.

The Shawshank Redemption - Drama about a prison break, number 1 movie on IMDb, so should
be good. (Written by Stephen King, but not a horror movie.)

Castaway - Drama starring Tom Hanks, he's on an island alone, so not a lot of talking.

Titanic - British English and Irish English.

Marvel Superhero movies - They're made from comic books intended for children, so the
language isn't hard at all.

Back to the Future (trilogy) - Just because.

Anything else after these.

Animated movies

Toy Story (Series) - Fun movies intended for children, with an easy to understand language.

Finding Nemo - Fun, easy to understand movie meant for children.

Up - Fun, easy to understand movie meant for children.

Wall-e - Fun, easy to understand movie meant for children.

Monsters Inc. - Fun, easy to understand movie meant for children.

Shrek - Fun, easy to understand movie meant for children.

Frozen - Fun, sometimes a bit sad, easy to understand movie meant for children.

Any other animated movie really.

TV Shows

Sitcoms

Friends - Not just a great and funny show, it also has an easy to understand language.

How I Met Your Mother - Funny, easy to understand, with a good story.

The Big Bang Theory - Funny, easy to understand except Sheldon's science speach.

The Office - Funny, easy to understand.

Modern Family - Funny, easy to understand .

Two and a Half Men - Funny, easy to understand

The Middle - Funny, easy to understand.

Anything else after these.

Non Sitcom

Lost - Very interesting, mysterious

Prison Break - You've seen it already, easy to understand

Books (Read, look up words you don't understand, write them down into a notebook)

Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) - easy to understand book, first mandatory book for native English
children.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Dr. Seuss) - Fun, Christmas themed book especially written for
Children.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Ronald Dahl) - Easy to understand, interesting book about
children for children.

The Chronicles of Narnia (series)(C.S. Lewis) - Fantasy series about children, written for children.

Matilda (Ronald Dahl) - Fun book about a child, made into a movie.

The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien) - Fantasy book about a Hobbit, who goes on an adventure.

The Chronicles of Spiderwick (Tony DiTerlizzi) - Fantasy book about children.

Harry Potter (Series) (J.K. Rowling) - You know.

Anything else after these.

That's it. Now you know everything you'll ever need.