I still can't understand movies and TV shows.

Understanding native media presents more challenges than understanding materials for learners. Materials for learners usually contain language used in a presentational style. First, the topic is introduced. Then, the speaker proceeds to talk about the topic step by step in a logical order that’s easy to follow. The things that the speaker talks about are limited to that particular topic, so they are quite easy to guess based on your previous knowledge about the topic. Native media can often be the complete opposite of that. Things can be said quite spontaneously without much context provided, and topics can change fast. Characters can use slang, slur when they speak, and in general use very short sentences that are hard to understand even if you just missed one single word. Sometimes there is also music or other noise making the speech harder to understand. The main thing you need to do is to simply keep acquiring vocabulary, so that there are fewer chances of not understanding some of the words. Getting more exposure to common expressions will also help you understand unclear speech, because you don't need to hear every single letter in an expression to be able to identify it. A bit like the way English speakers can understand "I don't know" even by just hearing the intonation of the sentence. Besides that, some things that will help understand media are:\n\nGetting more input about related topics that use some of the same vocabulary.\nWatching educational videos that contain a lot of slang.\nWatching videos that are not in a presentational style. For example, try watching our role-play videos.\n\nWe also answer this question in our video FAQ (with English subtitles):