Much of TV won't help you much with learning a language, but there are four types of TV shows that will help significantly.
Including the fact that English has more sounds than most languages. No wounder I had some many years of speach therapy, and I cannot pronounce things right.
How many German words are similar to English words, but with some changes.
How the printing presa was revolutionary, but also messed up English spelling.
Fascinating history of punctuation, starting with not uwriting spaces between words.
Learn things by asking questions. Was this guy a genius or a five year-old or is it that a grown man had the odacity to ask questions? Total fit for my mentality.
A list of expensive mistakes.
Debunking one of the few well documented, but misunderstood, conspiracy theories. This topic isw close to my heart, since I grew up sleeping by an incandescent light bulb as a night light, and my greatest fear is having the bulb go out in the middle of the night. Now I have numerous led lights with backup batteries.
How awnings can help cool buildings and striking a balance between winter warming and summer cooling needs without energy.
How N95 masks filter so will.
Building out of stone is beautiful and enviromrntaly advantagious.
Forget about Dr Seuss's "On Beyond Zebra!". Here is a bunch of real alphabets that will blow your mind.
Letters that the English language use to use.
Leonard Kleinrock helped create the Internet back in the 1960's. Ironicly, though AT&T turn his idea down, he used their telephone network which is circuit switched to test his idea of packet switching. Now, the Internet has taken the place of the old telephone network.
Japan does electrical safty the way opposit to North America.
Showing how a cool intro to a 1980's kid's show was created with available technology. Two interesting details: they printed some computer frawn graphics on paper,then filmed it, and they wrote out a detailed timeline that is similar to what they would do today in video editing software. I believe video workstations did not exist in the early 1980's, and that is why all that manual work.
Discusses how biogeographic realms came into existance over time with continental drift and evolution of life forms.
Shows how the Mediterranean Sea formed from continents moving. Shows the time that the Mediterranean Sea dried up, and the insanely extream conditions that occured there.
All kinds of weird facts about darkness, including the metaphorical darkness of ignorance.
Videos describing all the types of plants and how they are related to each other.
How history of two empires formed the layout of streets in Los Angeles.
Details scientists have discovered that shows our evolution is going back how we were in the past.
Talks about the geology of Mount Diablo and other parts of California. Video has nice scenic views.
Video that gives you clear, step-by-tep views of two recycling plants that specilize and one that generlized (but is enhancing the recycling of waste from households).