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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to English Cozy Chat,
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a slow English podcast which helps you to learn English in a fun and natural way.
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I'm Maria, and today we are going to have a fun chat about how I feel about clothes.
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But first, as always, let's talk about my cozy drink of the moment,
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and that is some mint tea.
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I really wanted to drink a second cup of coffee this morning,
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but I did not because every time I do that,
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it makes it hard for me to sleep and it's never good.
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I try this many times and I think, hey, maybe it won't affect my sleep today and it always does.
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So today I thought, okay,
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I'll just have a cup of tea instead and I'm drinking out of my coffee cup that I made or teacup today.
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So cheers you guys.
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Now for today's episode I really wanted to talk about clothes because there is something that I've been thinking about.
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I want to start off with a story.
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I went to the United States in May, and when I was there,
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my mom had this jacket there that she had had for a long time,
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which I bought 20 years ago
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and she said do you want this jacket you told me to get rid of it a long time ago
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but I didn't and here you go do you want it back
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and it was a little bit cold
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so I thought okay no I'll just wear it now and
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that will be good and then I started wearing it and I was like wow this is so comfortable.
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This jacket I bought 20 years ago
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and I wore it almost every day of the winter for maybe eight years in a row.
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I wore this jacket a lot and I think I wore it
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so much that I got sick of it and I didn't want to wear it anymore.
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And for that reason, I told my mom, just sell it, give it away, get rid of it because I didn't want it.
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But now I'm like, oh, this is so cozy.
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It is really warm.
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And I like it because it's really soft on the inside and the outside.
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So I can put it on in the morning right when I wake up.
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And I can also leave my house in it and it's just a jacket.
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It's not like a jacket or a coat
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that I need to put on and take off every time I leave the house.
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It's comfortable for me to wear both inside and outside.
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And I'm not sure why,
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you guys, but this is just making me really happy to have my old jacket back that I bought 20 years ago.
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One, because I think it brings back old memories of when I used to wear this jacket a lot.
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I wore this jacket so much in a fun time of my life,
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and it just feels good to wear it again.
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And another thing is it's very comfortable,
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so soft and really warm keeps me warm without being too hot
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and that's why I can wear it inside and outside
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and I also feel good to be using something that at one point I said I wanted to get rid of.
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So, this is why I've started to think a little bit more about clothes over the past days.
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Because, for example, this is a nice jacket.
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This is nice.
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It's quality.
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And that's why I can still wear this.
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And I will probably be able to wear this many years to come
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but now I feel like it's always so tempting to buy things
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that I kind of like but there's certain things
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that I don't like about it and maybe the quality is not very good but I end up buying things anyway.
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Just because I feel like, hey, why not?
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Like, it's not that expensive.
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I can buy this and wear it sometimes.
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But the truth is, in my case, and everyone's different.
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If I don't love something when I buy it
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and I don't think wow this feels great
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and for me now what is most important is
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that clothes are comfortable and that the fabric feels good on my skin
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and that I can breathe well and that I put it on
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and I feel good that's the most important thing
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and maybe I have a dress or a shirt or something that looks really nice,
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but it's not comfortable for whatever reason.
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And I just will not wear it.
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I know myself and I won't.
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Even if I want to, I'm like, oh, I want to wear this pretty dress.
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But then I'll try it on and say, oh, no, because it doesn't feel good.
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And I feel like now with so many options of clothes and stores and brands and styles,
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it can be very overwhelming.
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At least me, I'm not a very fashionable person at all.
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Like, I don't know anything about fashion, really.
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I appreciate good fashion, and I appreciate it when people look nice.
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And I also like to feel good in what I'm wearing and to look nice.
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But it's actually, it's hard for me to know what is in style
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or what is the kind of right thing to wear as far as styles go
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so I just feel like there is a lot of options out there
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and for me it can be very overwhelming and even the other day I had seen some things on a website.
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I do online shopping mainly because I hate actually going shopping and I saw some clothes that I thought looked nice.
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I thought hey that looks good and then I was at the store one day
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and I saw those same pieces of clothing that I saw online
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and I thought oh that doesn't look as nice as I thought
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or I tried them on and I thought this just doesn't this doesn't look as nice
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and quality as it did on my computer so that's also something
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that I have to really be careful about the truth is I think
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that we should normalize wearing less clothes wearing less not less clothes
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but less variety I think
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it is perfectly fine to wear the same thing two days in a row as long as you are clean
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and you feel good and you're not dirty,
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I think people feel like, you know, you need to always change.
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Obviously, if your shirt is dirty or whatever, you should change it.
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But still, like some people want lots of variety
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and to not ever wear the same thing twice in a short amount of time.
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But I really think it's completely okay and actually good
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if we have less options and only wear the things that you like.
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And more importantly, the things that you feel good in and that you feel confident in and that make you feel comfortable.
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Now that being said, I have a closet full of clothes
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and i bet i only wear 20 of the clothes
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that are in my closet i have lots of clothes
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that are just sitting there just in case like dresses shirts pants skirts stuff
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that i think I'm gonna keep that because maybe one day I'm gonna wear
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that and you know what happens I never wear it
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but it's still in my closet
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and for some reason it's hard for me to let go of those things why is it
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so hard sometimes to let go of things that we are not using I don't know.
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I do try twice a year to go through my closet.
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It's when I change my closet from summer to winter and winter to summer.
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I go through and I do try to get rid of clothes that I'm not wearing, so clean things out.
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But still, I always keep things that I don't need and
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that I know I probably won't wear and it's actually kind of funny
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when I do clean my closet out
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and I take some clothes out to give away
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and I will put them in a bag I have to get rid of that bag immediately.
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Because well, first off, let me go back.
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When I do clean out my closet, I have to in that moment have a mindset.
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I have to be thinking, okay, Maria, get rid of stuff.
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You need to get rid of things, throw things out, give things away. Because
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if I'm in a mindset that's like oh
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I don't want to I'll say oh this shirt I'll keep this this I will keep this too
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and of course then I get rid of like three things
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and I should be getting rid of many more so I always have like a trash bag full of clothes.
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And I always need to make sure to get rid of
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that trash bag as soon as possible and bring it to a donation center as soon as possible.
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Because if it sits in my house for too long, I will start to go through it and say,
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oh, but that sweater I'll take that and oh there's these shorts
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and it's just it's so annoying that I do that
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but I do that almost every time so those are always things
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that I need to make sure that I do
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so I'm really excited about my comfortable jacket and I think I am in the mindset now to say okay
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Maria just do it clean out the closet only keep things
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that you really like that make you feel good
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that you will wear
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and I think maybe today would be a good day for me to clean out my closet let's see
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and guys I also wanted to mention that in my membership you receive a study sheet with every episode.
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There is the full transcript, a vocabulary list with example sentences,
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vocabulary exercises, some grammar exercises that go along with
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each episode and if you are in my membership you will get one of those with every episode
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so I just wanted to mention that to you that are interested
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so guys let me know do you have the same struggles as me do you buy clothes
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that you don't need do you have a lot of clothes in your closet that you don't wear?
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Are you fashionable?
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Are you not fashionable like me?
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Or is there a piece of clothes that you really just love to wear
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and that makes you happy and that you feel like you could wear every day?
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Let me know in the comments.
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Thank you guys so much and I hope you have a wonderful day.
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Bye!

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Slow English Chat ☕ How I feel about CLOTHES”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: wear, clothes, jacket, closet, rid. Questo video contiene 148 frasi e 1805 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 15:45. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 115 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
cloth sostantivo/klɒθ/stoffa, tessuto
jacket sostantivo/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/giacca
mindset sostantivo/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/mentalità, modo di pensare
membership sostantivoiscrizione, appartenenza
trash sostantivo/tɹæʃ/spazzatura, immondizia
vocabulary sostantivo/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabolario
pants sostantivo/pænts/calzoni, pantaloni
clothing sostantivo/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/abbigliamento, vestiti
sheet sostantivo/ʃit/foglio
coat sostantivo/ˈkoʊ̯t/mantello, cappotto
breathe verbo/bɹiːð/respirare
grammar sostantivo/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/grammatica
podcast sostantivo/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast, audioprogramma
cheers/t͡ʃɪəz/cin cin, alla salute
donation sostantivo/doʊˈneɪʃən/donazione

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
go through verboattraversare
end up verboandare a finire, finire
give away verboregalare, dare via
go along with verboaccettare, adeguarsi
go back verbotornare
take off verbotogliere
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/svegliarsi

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Just because I feel like, hey, why not?
  • I know myself and I won't.
  • Are you not fashionable like me?

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Consigli con “should” should + verbo — dire che cosa è meglio fareshould normalize · should change · should be
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsionewon't affect · I'll just have · I'll just wear
Obbligo: must / have to / need to dire che qualcosa è necessarioneed to put · have to really be · need to always change
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — qualcosa che succede adesso o in questo periodoI'm drinking · is just making · I'm wearing

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 42 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, I'll. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: cloth /klɒθ/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, breathe /bɹiːð/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: fashionable /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/, trash /tɹæʃ/, sheet /ʃit/, donation /doʊˈneɪʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: cloth /klɒθ/, jacket /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/, closet /ˈklɑzɪt/, mindset /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/, trash /tɹæʃ/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: jacket /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/, fashionable /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/, trash /tɹæʃ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, pants /pænts/

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