A Mysterious English Term for ESL Learners
“Dʒɛn zi” was how the term sounded to me. When I was listening to the WSJ podcast, the term suddenly appeared in the presenters’ conversation, and as often happens when I came across an unfamiliar word, I lost the thread of the context. It sounded a bit like Chinese, but eventually I realized it was Gen Z. They were talking about the generation gap. Short English expressions sometimes sound like Chinese to me, even though I’ve never studied Chinese. I don’t know why.
When I was listening to the WSJ podcast, the term suddenly appeared in the presenters’ conversation, and as it often happens when I camecome across an unfamiliar word, I lost the threadtrack of the contextconversation.
The original was awkward, but it could be understood.
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I get what you mean. I'm the same.
Thanks! It’s funny how we all run into these moments when learning a language. Makes me feel a bit less alone in it.
When I was listening to the WSJ podcast, the term suddenly appeared in the presenters’ conversation, and as often happens when I camecome across an unfamiliar word, I lost the threadtrack of the contextconversation.
"the thread of the context" is understandable, but sounds a little off. "to lose track of the conversation" is another way to phrase it, but there are probably other just as good alternatives, I just can't remember any right now.
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I have this happen a lot too with languages I'm learning lol
Thanks! Good to know others experience the same thing. These little misunderstandings seem to be part of the journey for all of us.
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