Shadowing-Übung: TikTok teacher Mr. Lindsay breaks down Gen Z slang terms - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Okay, if you feel like the young people in your life are sometimes speaking a completely different language, we've got some help.
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All right, let's meet Mr. Lindsey, known on TikTok.
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He's a special education math teacher from Payson, Arizona, who went viral as he explained the current lingo to his followers.
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Today, he joins us for the very first edition of What the Kids Are Saying.
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Hi, hi, how are you, Mr. Lindsey?
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I'm doing great.
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Mr. Lindsey, Hoda and I are kind of obsessed with you.
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We've already shown your clips.
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Did you ever think you would blow up on TikTok like this?
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I did not, but I had some helpful things to say, and I put them out there, and here we are.
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I know, and it feels like now is the time we need you the most.
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Yes.
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Right?
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We're doing a public service for all of us parents.
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So should we get to the first word that the kids are saying?
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Absolutely.
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So the first up, we've got Riz or the Rizler.
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Okay, so this one means charisma.
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It means you've got charm an old word
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that you can reference back to you for a little bit help is me You've got game.
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Okay.
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Yes.
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They love this one obsessed with this one.
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Okay?
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They've got lots of little iterations of this word.
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They've got the risley bear The Wizard of Oz Rizasaurus Rex, okay
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Rizasaurus Rex
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I've got people who have kids that have come up to me
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and told me
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that they have a phd in quantum rizzing oh my gosh come on a professor of rizanomics okay
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so they are obsessed with this one they'll yell
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that dude's got w riz
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or walking down the hallway w riz i have a 14 year old
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and a 16 year old and even like we'll be at the stop
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and shop and i'll be just being polite and talking to the cashier
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and my kids look at that with the w riz at stop
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and shop i was like what no i just asked her
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how she was doing my daughter likes to use this word
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if a boy tries to put the riz on my daughter
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should my husband be scared probably a little concerned maybe okay
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tell us about the next one okay the next one is pick me girl
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or pick me energy okay now pick me think of uh
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of a try hard okay somebody who's maybe they're they're they're more about getting attention
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and attention seeking than they are being genuine in themselves
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so you don't want to be a pick me okay you
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don't want to be a pick me don't want to be okay kind of an insult oh
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that girl's a pick me or that guy's a pick me
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but that's not because they're smart
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and they raise their hands in class no no different different okay
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so give us an example of a pick uh
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so just kind of being loud and obnoxious maybe just to try and get get attention or draw things to themselves.
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Yeah, that would be an example of a pick me.
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She's realizing she was a pick me girl.
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I was a pick me too.
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I'm worried I was a pick me person.
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And I just want to apologize to all my middle school teachers.
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Welcome to the club.
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Okay.
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All right.
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All right.
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What's your next one, Mr. The next one that we have is do it for the plot.
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Now, this one, I really, really like this one.
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This one is life's a movie.
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My whole life is a movie.
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There's a story.
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There's struggle.
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There's obstacles cold and I've got to choose my own story.
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I've got to make my own story.
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So if there's something challenging or risky, I just got to send it.
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I'm going to do it for the plot.
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So like, it's like a new version of YOLO.
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So like, you only live once.
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Like, yeah, it's kind of that I'm right on the edge of doing something risky or something challenging.
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And I'm going to hype myself up by saying, you know, for the plot, I'm going to use that for the plot.
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I'm going to use the memories for the story.
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Okay.
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What's the last one?
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We'd like to do more, but what's the last w in the chat okay
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so this one comes from uh live streaming culture so the comments
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that are scrolling on a live stream is called the chat
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somebody does something good in the chat they send a big
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gift to the live streamer okay it's like oh w in
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the chat means hype somebody up okay it leaves live stream culture
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and now it is in the real world somebody does something hypeable
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and they're going to be like w in the chat drake went viral on a on a live video
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and now they say it very specific way i'm going to
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say it the way they say it they say w in the chat.
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I'm gonna go and go, W in the chat.
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They try to make a dub out with their fingers and it just means hype this guy up.
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The other word that we're not gonna get to but is the one that we're done with, well, mid.
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I like mid actually.
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Mid which just means medium.
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Eh.
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It's mid.
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The one that my kids are into is preppy.
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Preppy.
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It doesn't mean the same thing.
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It doesn't.
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No. It means like cool or something.
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Go for it.
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Okay. So preppy.
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Okay.
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Preppy is not.
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So like preppy in my day, polos, ever from B.
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Fitch, boat shoes.
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Totally.
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Those kinds of things.
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Preppy pastels.
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Yeah.
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Today, bright pink, smiley faces, all those things.
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So Stanley cups.
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Still style.
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Stanley cups, Lululemon, still style based.
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They call it an aesthetic, but they also call everything preppy.
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So it's kind of hard to tell what they really mean by preppy.
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So is that good?
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I don't know if it's good or not.
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It depends.
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It depends.
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It depends how they say it.
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Sometimes it's good, it's a compliment, sometimes it's bad.
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Mr. Lindsey, we need you to be our...
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You're amazing.
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You're amazing.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Bye.

Über diese Lektion

In dieser Lektion werden Sie mit der aktuellen Slang-Sprache von Generation Z vertraut gemacht, die durch die Erklärungen von Mr. Lindsey populär geworden ist. Sie lernen, wie man bestimmte Begriffe in Gesprächen verwendet und wie man diese Ausdrücke in alltäglichen Situationen anwendet. Diese Lektion zielt darauf ab, Ihre Kommunikationsfähigkeiten im Englischen zu fördern, insbesondere wenn es darum geht, informelle und umgangssprachliche Ausdrücke zu verwenden.

Wichtige Vokabeln & Phrasen

  • Riz – Charisma oder Anziehungskraft
  • Rizler – jemand, der viel Charme hat
  • Pick me girl – eine Person, die verzweifelt nach Aufmerksamkeit strebt
  • W Riz – „W“ steht für „Winning“, jemand mit viel Charisma
  • Rizanomics – ein humorvoller Begriff für das Studium des „Riz“
  • Try hard – jemand, der übertrieben darum bemüht ist, gemocht zu werden

Übungstipps

Um die in diesem Video verwendete Sprache effektiv zu erlernen, nutzen Sie die shadowspeak Technik. Versuchen Sie, die Ausdrücke neben Mr. Lindsey zu wiederholen. Achten Sie dabei auf seinen Ton und Rhythmus. Seine Sprechweise ist dynamisch und interessiert, was Ihnen hilft, Ihre shadow speech zu verbessern. Nutzen Sie die shadowing sites, um ähnliche Videos zu finden, die Ihnen das Nachsprechen erleichtern.

Beginnen Sie mit kurzen Clips und steigern Sie allmählich die Länge. Eine langsame, bewusste Nachahmung wird Ihnen helfen, die Begriffe nicht nur zu verstehen, sondern auch richtig auszusprechen. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit sollten Sie dem slangartigen Gebrauch der Worte schenken – diese sind oft kreativer und weniger formell. Je mehr Sie üben, desto fließender werden Sie sprechen und desto sicherer fühlen Sie sich in alltäglichen Gesprächen mit jungen Leuten.

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.