쉐도잉 연습: TikTok teacher Mr. Lindsay breaks down Gen Z slang terms - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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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.

맥락 및 배경

이번 영상에서는 TikTok에서 인기 있는 선생님, Mr. Lindsey가 등장합니다. 그는 현재의 Gen Z 슬랭을 설명하며 세대 간의 언어 격차를 메우는 데 도움을 주고 있습니다. Mr. Lindsey는 애리조나 주 페이슨에서 특별 교육 수학 교사로 활동하며, 그의 유머와 통찰력이 담긴 콘텐츠로 많은 사람들의 사랑을 받고 있습니다. 영어를 배우는 학생들에게 그가 전달하는 슬랭의 의미는 단순한 언어 학습을 넘어 문화적 소통의 중요한 부분을 차지합니다.

일상적인 의사소통을 위한 5가지 주요 구문

  • Riz 또는 Rizler: 매력을 의미합니다. 사람들이 'w riz'라고 이야기할 때, 그는 매력적인 사람을 가리킵니다.
  • Pick me girl: 지나치게 주목받고 싶어하는 사람을 의미하며, 진정성보다 관심을 추구하는 사람들을 비하하는 표현입니다.
  • W riz: 잘생기거나 매력적인 행동을 하는 사람을 칭찬하는 표현으로, 자신감 있는 태도를 형용합니다.
  • The Wizard of Oz: 조롱의 의미로 사용되며, 어떤 사람들이 우스꽝스럽게 보일 때 사용하는 표현입니다.
  • Rizanomics: 'Riz'와 경제학을 결합한 장난스러운 표현으로, 매력을 분석하려는 유머러스한 접근입니다.

단계별 쉐도잉 가이드

Mr. Lindsey의 슬랭 표현을 통해 영어를 배우고 싶다면, 유튜브 영어 공부와 shadowspeak 기법을 활용해보세요. 이를 통해 슬랭을 자연스럽게 연습할 수 있습니다.

  1. 비디오 반복 시청하기: 처음에는 내용을 이해하기 위해 전체 영상을 시청하세요. 무슨 말인지 감을 잡고 각 슬랭의 맥락을 파악하는 것이 중요합니다.
  2. 쉐도잉 연습하기: 영어 발음 교정을 원한다면, Mr. Lindsey의 발음을 따라 하며 연습하세요. 쉐도잉 사이트에서 제공하는 자료를 통해 영어의 억양과 리듬을 익힐 수 있습니다.
  3. 각 구문 활용하기: 배운 슬랭을 일상에서 사용할 기회를 찾으세요. 가족이나 친구와의 대화에서 자연스럽게 사용하면서 문장을 완성해보세요.
  4. 피드백 받기: 영어 실력을 향상시키기 위해 다른 사람에게 피드백을 요청하고, 수정할 부분에 집중하세요. 이는 IELTS 스피킹 준비에도 유용합니다.
  5. 꾸준함 유지하기: 언어 학습은 꾸준함이 중요합니다. 매일 시간을 정해 놓고 연습을 지속하세요.

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