Hello 大家周末好！相信大家跟着我们的播客学了不少的英语表达，这一期我们来讲一下学英语口语不得不提的大大大祖宗 -- Friends！这部美国电视剧可以说是很多人学英语过程中的 must watch 了，如果你还没看过的话，赶紧找来看看吧！

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Weekend English Club. Listening to podcasts like this one can be a good way to improve your English skills, and watching TV shows can also help a lot. One of the most famous English-language TV shows which I really like is called Friends, and you might already know it.

Friends is an American TV show that was on TV from 1994 until 2004, and it follows the lives of a group of friends living in New York in the 90's. The show is mostly about their daily lives, their romantic adventures and the funny things that happen to them. In English this kind of show is known as a Sitcom, which is short for situation comedy. If you want to improve your English, Friends is a very good show for that because the characters use a lot of expressions that are used in daily conversation by native speakers. The topics they talk about are almost always related to everyday life and understanding the jokes they make can help you a lot when you talk to other English speakers. Since there are 236 episodes of the show there is a lot of material for you to practice with and it is a great show to watch multiple times. There are six main characters in the show and they all have different personalities and careers, and they often meet up at a coffee place called Central Perk to chat, which has become quite famous. You can visit copies of it in cities around the world and it has become a very recognizable example of American television.

The show has had a big influence in American culture and almost everyone in the US knows Friends, so it's easy to start a conversation with someone if you mention you have watched it. One of the main actors called Matt LeBlanc only had 11 dollars in his bank account when he started working on the show, but they all became very successful. Another main actor, Matthew Perry, was once told by his teacher in school that being funny would never get him anywhere in life, but on Friends he became famous for being one of the funniest guys on the show. So if someone tells you to stop being funny, maybe you should not always listen to them. The last episode of Friends was watched by 52 million people the day it was on TV, and it is still very popular with people today. If you have not watched it yet, maybe give it a try sometime.

• On TV：在电视上
• Romantic：浪漫的
• Be short for：是...的缩写/简称
• Improve：改善，变得更好
• Expressions：表达；生词短语（复数）
• Conversation：谈话，交谈
• Native speakers：母语者（复数）
• Multiple：多个的，多种的
• Personalities：人格；个性（复数）
• Meet up：相约见面
• Recognizable：可辨认的
• Give it a try：尝试一下

主播：Daniel

校对：nan_nan