Let's continue our learning of English and discover a country that is rarely represented in series: South Africa.
Netflix offers 3 series: Blood&Water, Queen Sono and the latest, Jiva.
Very different from each other, they each allow you to discover a city in stockholder data South Africa, local languages such as Zulu and Swahili and the South African English accent.
It is also an opportunity to learn a little more about current South African society, the history of the country and its urban cultures.
A little tip for understanding this accent, which we rarely encounter in pop culture, is to keep the English subtitles. To learn the vocabulary, go to the Learn and Watch platform which offers quizzes for each episode.
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Blood and Water
This series released in 2020, tells the story of Puleng, a young South African high school student who lost her sister, 17 years earlier, kidnapped at birth. When she meets a new young girl, Fisks, she begins to
ask if the kidnapping of his sister and this young girl might not be linked. The story takes place in a wealthy school in Cape Town, the capital of South Africa.
This series deals with questions related to adolescence. Beyond the main plot, Puleng tries to have a normal high school life with love stories, questions about studies and quarrels with her family. This series has only 6 episodes, it can be quickly watched before your departure to South Africa.
Blood and Water is level B1 in English, which is an intermediate level.