Nerdy Professor Shocks High School by Speaking Gen Alpha Slang

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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: www.westtown.edu/
And Ohio State University's Multilingual Language Education Program: ehe.osu.edu/graduate/multilingual-language-educati…

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

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