Pratica di Shadowing: TikTok teacher Mr. Lindsay breaks down Gen Z slang terms - Impara a parlare inglese con i 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.

Perché praticare il parlato con questo video?

Questo video offre un'opportunità unica per immergersi nel linguaggio attuale dei giovani, specialmente della Generazione Z. La pratica di conversazione in inglese è fondamentale per migliorare le proprie capacità comunicative, e questo video è perfetto per capire le tendenze linguistiche recenti. Incontrare termini colloquiali come "riz" o "pick me girl" non solo rende il contenuto rilevante, ma aiuta anche a familiarizzare con l'inglese parlato nella vita quotidiana. Inoltre, ascoltando un insegnante che decodifica questo gergo, potrai sviluppare una migliore sensibilità verso il tono e il contesto dell'uso del linguaggio, elementi essenziali per una comunicazione efficace.

Grammatica e espressioni nel contesto

  • Uso di "rizz": Questo termine, che deriva da "charisma", è un ottimo esempio di come i nuovi vocaboli possano derivare da parole esistenti. Utilizzarlo in frasi come "That dude's got w riz" permette di comprendere come gli slang possono modificare la struttura grammaticale tradizionale.
  • Frasi colloquiali: Espressioni come "You don't want to be a pick me" mostrano come l'inglese colloquiale possa essere informale, ma molto efficace nel trasmettere significati profondi. E' importante praticare queste espressioni per rendere la propria conversazione più autentica.
  • Terminologia contestuale: L'uso di “pick me energy” per descrivere una persona che cerca costantemente attenzione suggerisce l'importanza del linguaggio per esprimere giudizi sociali. Insegnare queste espressioni aiuta i learner ad articolare le loro osservazioni in modo più incisivo.

Trappole comuni di pronuncia

Nella conversazione del video, ci sono alcune parole e frasi che possono risultare difficili da pronunciare per chi sta migliorando la pronuncia inglese. Ad esempio, il termine "riz" tende a creare confusione per la sua sonorità e la sua mistificazione con vocaboli simili. Inoltre, il modo in cui il relatore enfatizza alcune espressioni come "w riz" può risultare difficile da replicare. È utile fare shadowing in inglese ascoltando attentamente la pronuncia e cercando di imitarne il ritmo e l'intonazione. Utilizzando risorse come shadowspeaks, potrai migliorare questa abilità e acquisire familiarità con questi termini moderni.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.