Getting addicted to a foreign soap is a great addition to more formal study. It is more relaxing than hitting the books and you'd be surprised what you can understand of melodrama simply from the "acting" alone.
Some soaps can be difficult to get hold of online. There is an excellent French soap - Plus belle la vie - but it is not available to stream free online. German learners, however, are spoilt for choice. There are several available to stream online for free on RTL-now. As well as a number of other programmes along the lines of "The Farmer wants a wife" (Bauer sucht Frau).
My personal favourite is Alles Was Zählt. And it can be watched here:
It is basically Dallas - a soap centred around a rich, manipulative family - except the cast has come straight off the set of Hollyoaks...and there's dancing. Lots of dancing.
You'll be surprised at the wonderfully dramatic vocabulary you can pick up watching soaps such as this:
Lovesick - Liebeskoma
Heart attack - Herzinfarkt
Blackmail - Erpressung
...so much more interesting than colours, pets and days of the week!
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