Professor Shocks High School by Speaking Gen Z Slang

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Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring this video! Let BetterHelp help you rule your anxiety so it doesn’t rule you. Click https://betterhelp.com/xiaoma for a discount on your first month of therapy. I was invited by Westtown School to give a speech—as a language expert—about the importance of learning languages, in front of a full auditorium of high school and middle school students. But instead of just telling the students why language matters…I decided to show them. So I spent weeks secretly mastering Gen Alpha slang and then delivered the entire speech in their own linguistic native tongue, as a lighthearted prank but also to genuinely emphasize the importance of learning languages. And to truly test my Gen Alpha fluency, I brought the dialect to a college graduation at Ohio State University—delivering a formal commencement speech in full professor robes to a room full of future teachers. Now they know exactly what they’re up against! Thanks so much to Westtown School: https://www.westtown.edu/ And Ohio State University's Multilingual Language Education Program: https://ehe.osu.edu/graduate/multilingual-language-education-phd for letting me do this crazy challenge! 0:00 Introduction 1:54 Nerdy professor pranks high school by speaking Gen Alpha slang 6:51 Getting a doctorate 7:35 Giving commencement speech in Gen Alpha slang LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc