Hadar Shemesh talks to 8-year-old Asaf about Gen Alpha slang. Riz means charisma, gyat means butt, Ohio is an insult, and sigma means cool or alpha. The conversation also covers mewing, aura, and what it means to be mid.
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Squibly toil has so much wrist. Like it's like a wrestler, like he's such a sigma.
Hi everyone, it's Hadar. Thank you so much for joining me today. I have a guest with me, his name is Asaf. And Asaf and I will talk about Gen Alpha slang.
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Are you ready? Let's do it. So, as a mother to two tween girls, I often come across the slang. So I decided to bring a friend of mine. His name is Asaf. Say hi Asaf.
Hi.
And he will help us understand a little bit more about Gen Alpha slang. Now, would you recommend people like me who are obviously not Gen Alpha, to use the slang regularly? No. No. Why not?
Because you won't use it properly.
We won't use it properly even after watching this video. Maybe you mean that if we use the slang, we're going to be very Ohio?
Yeah.
If you don't know what Ohio means, stay tuned because we are going to talk about it. If you're new to my channel, my name is Hadar. I'm a non native speaker of English and I'm here with Asaf to help you speak English confidently and clearly, even if it's in 10 auf.
Exactly.
Asaf, how many languages do you speak?
Four.
Four?
Five.
Oh my God. Tell me.
Wait, no.
10?
10? No. English, Spanish, Hebrew?
Yes.
Catalan.
Catalan.
And maybe French.
And maybe French. Oh, and you know what? You forgot Gen Alpha.
Yeah.
What language do you feel most comfortable in?
Hebrew or English or English?
In what language do you think in English?
English.
So cool. Inside the brain of a multilingual child. All right, so let's get started.
Yeah.
Okay, good. So the first word that we are going to talk about is Riz. What is Riz?
Riz is like you have charisma.
Charisma. So it means like someone who is a charmer.
Yeah.
Yeah. How do you call someone who has riz A rizzler. A rizzler. Are you a rizzler, Sef?
I don't know.
You're a rizzler. You have rizz. What is gyat?
A but.
A but. I would ask you to put it in a sentence, but maybe we can skip to the next one. Okay, so Gyat is a but. Okay, good. This is really interesting because my daughters do that all the time. What is mewing?
It's like improving your jawline.
You're improving your jawline? Yeah. And why in the world an 8 year old person needs to improve their jawline?
For photos.
For photos. Okay. Good. To look good.
Yeah.
Okay. And how do you do that?
Put your tongue on top of your gum and then with here.
The teeth.
The teeth. You.
You clench your teeth.
Yeah.
Oh, I see this.
Got it.
Does it hurt?
A little.
Okay. Don't mew at home. What is Ohio?
It's like an insult.
It's an insult. So if I say, oh, you're such. You're. How do you say it? You're so Ohio. You're such an Ohio. So that means that you're what, like, like. No, like cringe?
Yeah, like.
Like the opposite of Riz.
Yeah.
So like you are Riz and I'm Ohio. What else is an insult? How about mid?
Mid. Yeah.
Yeah, mid. Because if someone says, oh, you're so mid. That's not good. So mid is like average. Like middle. Like somewhere in. In the middle. But it's an insult.
Kids like, use it more as like really bad.
Really bad. Because nowadays average is bad probably.
Right?
So we don't want to be mid. We want to be Riz. Skibidi toilet. But when I say skibidi toilet, I'm just Ohio. Okay, what else?
Aura.
Aura. What's aura?
It's like cool. Cool. Like if you're cool, you just cool. And then you get like 10,000 aura points along. Okay. It just gets aura points.
Aura points. I like aura points. Can I get some aura points? Okay. Oh, I know one more. Speaking of aura and cool and Riz. Sigma. What's Sigma?
It's like you have aura.
Oh, you have aura. Okay, got it. So Sigma is like. Like a cool person.
Yeah.
Yeah. So I'm Sigma.
Yeah.
He had no choice. He had no choice. Is there anything else you think people should know about you? About Gen Alpha? About your slang?
I don't think so.
Okay, good. Does that mean that we are done with the video?
Yeah.
Okay.
What was your first video?
If you see it now, you're gonna laugh at me. It was when I taught how to say world. I said how to pronounce world.
World.
World.
This is how I spoke. I'll show you later. What do you think about making mistakes in a second language? In a language that is not your native language. How do you feel about it?
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing. But do you think it's like, it's a bad thing, it's Ohio, or is it. How do you deal with it?
You just say that it's not your native language or something.
So when you make a mistake in, let's say, what, Catalan, then do you feel bad? Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
But you know that because you speak so many languages, it's okay to make mistakes. You know that. You know that making mistakes is a big part of speaking a second language. The fact that you make mistakes means that you know another language. You know that good. And knowing many languages is a powerful thing. It's really Riz. You know that? Yeah, it's sigma. Am I using it wrong?
Yeah, you can't say Riz.
I can't say Riz. Okay. It's great. It's just awesome. It's fantastic. Assaf, thank you so, so much. It was great having you here, guys. If you want me to bring Assaf as a guest again, let us know in the comments.
Right?
Do this. Do this. And what do we need to say now at the end of the video?
Peace out.
Peace out. No.
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