跟读练习: TikTok teacher Mr. Lindsay breaks down Gen Z slang terms - 通过视频学习英语口语
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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.
背景与上下文
在当前的社交媒体环境中，年轻一代（特别是Z世代）常常使用独特的俚语和表达方式。这些新词汇与传统英语相比，有时可能会让家长和老师感到困惑。Mr. Lindsay是一位来自亚利桑那州Payson的特殊教育数学老师，他在TikTok上意外走红，因其向追随者解释当今年轻人使用的语言而受到关注。在这一系列中，他帮助家长和成年人更好地理解年轻人的用语，从而促进代际间的沟通。
日常交流的五个流行短语
- Riz：这个词源于“魅力”，通常用于形容某人非常有吸引力或幽默感。年轻人会说某人有“w riz”，表示这个人很酷。
- Pick me girl：指那些渴望别人注意、希望得到别人赞赏的女孩。这种说法有时带有贬义。
- W Riz：当某人表现得特别有魅力时，年轻人会用“w riz”来称赞他们。例如，在走廊里经过时，路过的人会被称为“有w riz”的人。
- Rizler：这个词是“Riz”的衍生词，指那些非常有魅力的人。
- Rizanomics：一种幽默的说法，形容一个人在“魅力”方面非常精通，仿佛他们拥有相关的博士学位。
逐步跟读指南
想要更好地掌握这些流行词汇，你可以尝试以下跟读（shadowing）方法，以提升你的英语发音和理解能力：
- 选择视频：选择一段包含有趣短语和日常对话的YouTube视频，例如Mr. Lindsay的解读视频。
- 初步聆听：第一次观看视频时，不要立即跟读，先了解大意和主要内容。
- 分段跟读：将视频分成小段进行反复观看，尝试模仿说话者的语调和发音，这对提高英语发音非常有效。
- 使用暂停功能：在听到困难的表达时，暂停视频并进行练习，直到你能够顺畅地说出这些短语。
- 反复练习：定期重复这些短语，可以记录并回放自己的发音，逐步改进。
通过这一方法，你不仅能掌握新颖的俚语，还能有效提高英语交流能力。请继续利用看YouTube学英语的资源，广泛接触不同的说法，发展你的语言天赋，成为更自信的语言使用者。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。