Foreign Language TV Series - What We’re Watching in 2021

Need something new to watch?

Despite those childhood warnings about getting square eyes, we still both watch an almighty amount of TV and we particularly love watching series in other languages (so it’s educational, right?).

In what has become an annual tradition for Language Chats, we’re chatting about what we’ve been watching this year - from light-hearted Scandinavian series to French reality TV, drama to documentaries, we’ve covered some serious multilingual viewing in 2021!

What have you been watching? Let us know here, in our Facebook Group or Instagram.

Episode Links

NB: we’ve noted where you can currently (Nov 2021) watch these series in Australia. If you are located outside Australia, you may need to look a little further to find where these shows are available for you to view!

• Rita - Danish (Netflix)
• Welcome to Sweden - English / Swedish (SBS On Demand)
• Nailed It - English (SBS On Demand English / with Vietnamese subtitles)
• How Tippi Hedren made Vietnamese refugees into nail salon magnates - BBC News
• New Gold Mountain - English / Cantonese (SBS On Demand)
• The Parisian Agency / L’Agence - French (Netflix)
• Destination Flavour Japan - English (SBS On Demand)
• Squid Game - Korean (Netflix)
• Netflix hit show 'Squid Game' spurs interest in learning Korean - Reuters
• The Sleepers - Czech (SBS On Demand)
• The Serpent - English / Dutch / French / Thai (Netflix)
• The Durrells - English / Greek
• (The youngest Durrell (Gerald) wrote My Family and Other Animals in 1956 - If you haven’t read My Family and Other Animals, do so – preferably with a child - The Guardian)
• Never Look Away / Werk ohne Autor - German (SBS On Demand)