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Korean Husband Guesses American Gen Z Slang 🇰🇷🇺🇸 #english #genz #studyenglish #영어 #영어동부 #영어강사

8 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this short, informal YouTube clip, a Korean husband (Speaker A) and a conversational partner (Speaker B) play a guessing game to identify the meanings of popular American Gen Z acronyms. They start with ISTG, mistakenly linking it to Instagram (IG) before correcting it to "I swear to God." They then move on to NGL, clarifying it as "not gonna lie," followed by FRFR, which they recognize as an emphatic affirmation. The discussion continues with IMO, explained as "in my opinion," and a brief nod to EMO as "emotional." The exchange is playful and serves both as entertainment and a quick lesson for English learners about contemporary slang, highlighting a cross‑cultural perspective on language.

Best friend France? It means be fucking real. Ah, ISTG. Instagram. Oh, that's actually a really good guess. Instagram is just IG. ISTG means I swear to God.
What the?
NGL. Never go left. What does that mean?
I don't know.
NGL means not gonna lie.
Ah, FRFR.
Oh, how did you learn that?
I just guessed. I just see brain still working.
IMO.
Emotional.
Emotional. Emo, like emotional, is EMO, but IMO is in my opinion.
You change this, that weird.