Weekly English Words with Alisha Hipster English
Hello and welcome back to weekly words, my
name is Alisha. In this week, we are going
to look at Hipster English, let’s get started.
I am learning this along with you today. I
am learning, I don’t know these are.
Vinyl.
As in the material or in the record. Before
CDs, before tapes, there were vinyl, vinyl
records where they are about this big or there
are smaller sizes maybe about this big, people
would use to play music and hipsters, some
hipsters prefer to use vinyl or to listen
to vinyl rather on a record player.
In a sentence, I prefer vinyl because vinyl
sounds more authentic.
Skinny jeans.
I think you know, these are really more mainstream
at this point but skinny jeans just refers
to jeans which taper at the end. So the top
is bigger and then the bottom kind of, it
goes like this.
In a sentence, I shrunk my skinny jeans in
the wash the other day. Oops! My circulation!
I can’t feel my feet.
Instagram.
Maybe you use Instagram. This is a very popular
application where people can post photos and
they can filter the photos to make them look
interesting or different.
In a sentence, follow me on Instagram and
check out my pics. I have cool pics.
Next is Thrift store.
A Thrift store is a second hand shop, a kind
of shop where you can go to find things that
other people have used or have worn before,
and you can usually get them for a cheap price.
In a sentence, I like to go to the Thrift
store every weekend because there are always
interesting new things to find.
All right, the next word is Polaroid.
Polaroid refers to an old style camera, box
shaped. I think you can still buy updated
versions of these now, and you take a picture
and the picture would immediately spit out
the front of the camera in a little square
and you could kind of shake it a little bit
to make that, I guess, but the picture would
gradually fade in. You would see the picture
start to appear. So Polaroid’s I guess are
popular among hipsters. I don’t know.
In a sentence, I like decorating my room with
Polaroid pictures.
And okay, that’s the end of hipster words.
I really don’t know if I’ve explained
all of those very well but in case you want
to cross some of these words, maybe that’s
a little bit of context for them. Thanks very
much for joining us this week. We will see
you again next time, bye.