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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about describing clothing.
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As you go through your day, you'll see people wearing all different kinds of clothing.
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And in this lesson I'll teach you the words we use to describe those clothes.
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Now I should make a point here of saying this lesson is mostly based on what I see during my day.
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So it's a very North American lesson.
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It might be somewhat Northern European as well.
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But I am aware that around the world people wear a variety of clothes and they're all awesome.
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But I usually teach the lessons from my perspective, from what I know.
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So in this lesson I'll talk about things like suits, when people look chic, when they're wearing casual clothes and those types of things.
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So once again, welcome to this English lesson about describing clothing casual.
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This is my favourite way to dress.
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Casual clothing is relaxed clothing style is a, relaxed clothing style that is.
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And not very formal.
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In North America, when I watch American TV or when I watch Canadian tv, when I watch the news from either country, this is a very common outfit.
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We would call that a, hoodie in my part of the world, the shirt that this person is wearing and a pair of jeans.
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And some I would call running shoes.
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Some people call tennis shoes.
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Some people call them, oh, what was, oh, sneakers.
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Had an American boss once that called them sneakers.
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But anyways, casual.
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So T shirt and jeans, something that's not very formal and very comfortable.
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When you go to a shopping mall in my part of Canada, at this time of year, people usually have a winter coat on as well.
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But often they will be wearing a hoodie, which is a sweatshirt with a hood, jeans and running shoes.
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So casual. When you dress casual, you are wearing relaxed clothing in a style that is comfortable and not very formal.
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Which brings us to the word formal.
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So formal is a clothing style that is neat, traditional and worn for important events.
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Generally when men dress formally they are going to wear a suit or at the very least a tie.
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You don't have to.
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But generally if I was to go to somewhere where it is expected that I wear formal clothing, I would be dressing like that gentleman over there.
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Women, when they dress formally might wear a skirt and a jacket like this woman is, they might wear a dress.
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They might also wear a suit similar to a man, but obviously designed and tailored for a woman.
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But a formal style of dress would be a clothing style that is neat, traditional and worn for important events.
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Some people have jobs where they're expected to dress formally.
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I have a job Where I can kind of dress in the middle.
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So you'll see I don't have a tie, but I'm expected to wear a shirt with a collar.
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I'm wearing jeans right now, but if I go to work, I'm expected to wear khaki or some other type of pants.
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So not semi formal or formal, but definitely not casual.
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Anyways. Formal clothing style that is neat, traditional and worn for important events.
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Vintage clothing from an earlier time period and often valued for its age and style.
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A long time ago there was a baseball team in the city of Montreal called the Montreal Expos.
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They no longer are there, but if you can find a sweat sweatshirt like this, we would consider it vintage.
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Something from an earlier time.
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It's something from many, many years ago that you can't necessarily find or buy right now.
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So you would need to go to a vintage clothing store or a secondhand clothing store in order to find a sweatshirt like this.
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So. Vintage clothing from an earlier time period and often valued for its age and style.
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Flashy clothing that is very bright, shiny or designed to attract attention.
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I do not own any flashy clothing.
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I do not have a shirt like this that is multicoloured.
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I do not have any clothing that is bright colors.
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I think that is as it should be for someone my age.
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I am an older, an older gentleman who wants to look, yeah, when I dress I just want to look proper and wise.
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Can you look wise when you dress?
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I don't go out to the club at night.
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I don't have a flashy shirt to wear even if I did.
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But flashy would be clothing that is very bright, shiny or designed to attract attention.
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And it's probably going to be made of a fabric that reflects light really well.
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It might be like a light silk type fabric.
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You can see that this shirt would probably reflect light very well.
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You were out dancing away on the dance floor at the local discotheque.
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We don't use the word discotheque very much in English anymore.
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But, flashy, bright, shiny and designed to attract attention.
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Sporty clothing for sports or active movement, often comfortable and practical.
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So in North America, sporty clothing isn't just for sports anymore.
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It's become part of the casual way of dressing as well.
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But can see that this person here is ready to maybe play some basketball if they wanted to.
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They, it looks like they're wearing a T shirt.
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They're wearing pants that look comfortable and allow for active movement.
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But I will say again, people often just Dress this way even if they're not going to play a sport.
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So you will see men, and women dressed in a sporty way, in Canada and the United States, even when they're just buying groceries or at the mall.
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But true to the definition, sporty clothing would be clothing for sports or active movement, often comfortable and practical.
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Matching clothes that go well together, having the same colour pattern or style.
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So you can see I have a light blue shirt and then a dark blue shirt.
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So in some ways this is a little bit of matching.
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Okay. It's not a perfect match like the person in this picture who is wearing, we would call a charcoal colored shirt and charcoal colored pants.
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Charcoal is like a deep gray, it's not quite black.
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But it is matching perfectly.
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If I open my eyes up a bit, you can see usually my eyes are blue when I wear blue.
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So sometimes I wear clothes that match my eye color.
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But matching would be clothes that go well together, having the same color pattern or style.
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Stylish clothing that looks fashionable, attractive and well put together.
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So I am of course not an expert when it comes to stylish clothing.
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I am an expert at finding clothes that fit, that are comfortable, that look okay and that I can wear for many, many years.
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But some people are very stylish.
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You can see here she has a very, very nice looking coat draped over her shoulders.
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She's even accessorized with a nice handbag that kind of matches her look and she looks very, very stylish.
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Okay. She definitely isn't wearing jeans and a hoodie and just hanging out at the grocery store buying something.
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She is definitely dressed to look impressive and to look stylish.
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So a nice fashionable coat, a nice handbag that goes with her look.
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Stylish clothing that looks fashionable, attractive and well put together.
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When we say something is well put together, it means someone thought about, what they were wearing so that it looked good.
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Waterproof material that does not allow water to pass through it.
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When you live somewhere where it rains a lot, it's nice to have a waterproof jacket at the very least.
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Waterproof jacket is made of material so that when rain hits it, instead of going in, it kind of rolls off.
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So if I wore this outside, this isn't waterproof.
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I would become soaking wet, I would become drenched.
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Those are the words we would use.
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But if I had a nice waterproof jacket, I could go outside in the rain and I could put up the hood, which is also waterproof and rain would just flow off of me.
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Would be, it would make the whole experience of being out in the rain much more pleasant.
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Breathable fabric that allows air to pass through so the body stays cooler and drier.
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So this is an interesting thing because waterproof and breathable are two things you want in a jacket.
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You want the jacket to be waterproof so you don't get wet, but you also want it to be breathable so that air can still kind of flow through it.
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You don't want to wear.
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If you wore a plastic garbage bag as a jacket, it would be very, very warm and you would sweat and it would be damp because there's.
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It's not breathable.
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So I have a nice jacket.
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The jacket keeps me dry because it's waterproof, but it also is very comfortable because it's breathable.
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It allows some air to flow, between myself and the rest of the world.
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So breathable fabric that allows air to pass through so the body stays cooler and drier.
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Fashionable clothing that follows the current styles that many people like.
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I do not dress in a fashionable way.
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I dress in, an appropriate way.
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But this person definitely has a fashionable look.
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So they have a very fashionable jacket.
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Their glasses are very fashionable.
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They have a fashionable handbag and fashionable pants.
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So clothing that follows current styles that many people like.
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I also think in order to be fashionable, you do need to spend quite a bit of money on the clothing that you are wearing.
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I don't know this person, but I would guess that this person has enough money buy what I would call fancy clothes.
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That's another word to describe clothing.
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Fashionable fancy clothing that follows the current styles that many people like.
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Trendy. Very fashionable right now, following the newest styles.
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So you might wonder, what's the difference between fashionable and trendy?
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To me, fashionable has a certain style to it that looks very, very nice.
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You could wear fashionable clothing almost anywhere and it would be appropriate.
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Whereas trendy might be a little more out there.
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When we say something's out there in English, it means very different or not what people are normally wearing.
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If I was, for instance, to, I'm trying to think trendy clothing.
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If you were to see people in, like, a music video, they're probably going to be wearing trendy clothing.
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Clothing that is very fashionable right now, following the newest styles.
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I don't wear trendy clothing.
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I should stop talking about myself.
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Classic. So a style that stays popular for a long time and does not really go out of fashion.
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So this is a classic look in North America and probably in a lot of places around the world.
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This is the look of a white T shirt, pair of jeans.
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So that is a style that stays popular for a long time and does not easily go out of, fashion.
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Wearing a nice white T shirt and a pair of jeans in North America, in Canada and the United States, has been a classic look for decades.
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Okay, you could have, in the 50s, worn a T shirt, a white T shirt, and jeans and been in style, and you could wear that today and you would still look good.
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Not if it's from the 50s, though.
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It might be worn out.
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But classic.
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A style that stays popular for as, for a long time and does not easily go out of fashion.
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Elegant clothing that looks graceful, refined, and very tasteful.
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So when I think about elegant clothing, I almost always think of the royal family in the United Kingdom.
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So Princess Kate usually looks very elegant when she goes out in public.
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She has a very nice hat.
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She has a very nice, probably a, dress.
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It might just be a jacket, but she looks very elegant.
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She's definitely not wearing jeans and a T shirt.
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She's definitely dressing to look appropriate for her role in the world.
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So as a princess, she wants to look good, she wants to look stylish.
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And so generally, she will buy clothing.
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I don't think she buys it herself.
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I think she has people buy it for her, so that she looks graceful, refined, and very tasteful.
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If you're a princess or a prince or a king or queen, you will probably always dress in a very elegant way so that you look graceful and refined.
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Plaid, like plaid.
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This shirt is actually plaid.
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If you look at it, multicolored, horizontal and vertical lines forming squares or rectangles.
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So plaid is, in my opinion, one of the coolest types of fabric.
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One of the coolest looks.
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So generally, I wear plaid shirts.
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If you went back a few years, when I first started my YouTube channel, I almost always wore plaid shirts.
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Now I have a few shirts that aren't plaid, but most of my shirts for work, most of my collared shirts are plaid, multicolored, horizontal and vertical lines forming rectangles, squares, or rectangles.
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So if you look closely, you could see there's, like, light blue and white and gray lines, and they kind of form little squares and patterns.
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So plaid. Very cool type of fabric.
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I highly recommend plaid for people in the world.
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Chic. A simple but very stylish and fashionable look.
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So this is an interesting one, because when you look at the word, you might not think that's how you pronounce it, but the word Is chic.
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So chic I think goes beyond just what you're wearing.
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So when I see a person like this I think he looks very chic because looks like he has a very nice watch, he has a very nice suit and a simple white dress shirt.
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He has a very nice pair of sunglasses as well.
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He just looks very chic.
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So a simple and very stylish and fashionable look.
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Colourful clothing that has many bright or different colours.
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So we sometimes call this a Hawaiian shirt.
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This isn't totally a Hawaiian shirt but a shirt like this is very colourful.
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You can see that there are lots of different colours on this shirt.
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And this person is ready to, I don't know, go out for the evening, go to the beach, hang out with friends.
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He probably lives somewhere warm because it's a short sleeved shirt.
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But yes, colourful clothing that has many bright or different colours like this shirt.
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Plain clothing with no decorations, patterns or extra design.
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So you might, you could even talk about a white T shirt this way.
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You could say a plain white T shirt.
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I think there's a band called the Plain White Tees.
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Yeah. Hey there Delilah.
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Is that the song?
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Maybe someone should look that up.
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Anyways, plain would be the opposite of colourful.
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You could see this person has kind of a plain T shirt.
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It's a bit of a brown colour.
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Maybe it's almost like the color of the dirt.
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But there are no decorations, patterns or extra design.
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Even his pants are very, very plain.
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And some people just like to wear plain clothes.
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Which reminds me, when a police officer is not in uniform and is just wearing normal clothes, we call them a plain plains clothes.
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They're in plain clothes.
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Plain clothes.
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I can't, I can't think.
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You're gonna have to look that one up.
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But you might hear that on a detective show.
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But anyways, plain clothing with no decorations, patterns or extra design.
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Patterned fabric that has repeated designs or shapes on it.
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So I don't really use this word that much but you would describe this as a patterned shirt.
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If you look at it closely, some of the yellow things on the shirt are the same as the other yellow things.
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The little blue dots are kind of in different spots.
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So we would say it's a patterned shirt fabric that has repeated designs or shapes on it.
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Striped. So when my kids were little there was a book called Where's Waldo?
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And Waldo is the guy over there.
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He is wearing a striped shirt fabric that has long narrow lines of color across it.
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And the point of Where's Waldo?
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Was to find Waldo.
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On every page.
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You can see he's right there, the yellow circle on the COVID And it was a really fun book to look at with my children.
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As well as I Spy.
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I think that was the other book we read.
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But Waldo always wore a striped red and white shirt, and that should have made him easy to find.
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But you probably be surprised how hard it was to find Waldo.
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Striped fabric that has long narrow lines of color across it.
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Tight clothing that fits very closely to the body.
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You would probably, in English use the informal term jacked to describe this guy.
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This guy is jacked.
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When you say that, it means the guy has a lot of muscle.
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This guy definitely goes to the gym and he's very proud of how he looks.
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He's very confident in how he looks.
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And so he is wearing a tight shirt.
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I would not wear a tight shirt, would not look great.
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I do not look like this.
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But when you are in good shape, you might wear a tight shirt.
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Clothing that fits very closely to the body.
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Loose clothing that hangs away from the body and is not tight.
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If you live somewhere where it's very warm, you probably wear loose clothing or we might say loose fitting clothing.
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Clothing that allows air to kind of move between your body and the clothing to help keep you cool.
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So, I would say if you look at this, his shirt is a little bit loose.
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His pants are definitely loose.
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And this is probably a very comfortable thing to wear in a very hot climate.
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I would also probably say his clothing is breathable.
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It allows him to sweat and there's airflow and it can cool him off.
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But loose clothing that hangs away from the body and is not tight.
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Baggy, very large clothing worn intentionally in a loose way.
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So having taught for almost 30 years, I have seen baggy jeans or baggy pants come and go.
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They have been fashionable and then they go out of style.
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They, they have been trendy and then they are not cool anymore.
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Currently, I think slightly baggy pants are in style.
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I'm not a hundred percent sure, but you can see that this is definitely different than tight.
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These are not tight jeans.
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These are very large jeans worn intentionally in a loose way.
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So that is what we would call baggy.
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Baggy. It's kind of a fun word to say baggy.
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Fitted clothing made to follow the shape of the body closely.
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So this is different than tight.
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So this guy, I think probably went and bought a suit and the suit fit pretty good, but he probably had the suit Fitted or tailored to more closely follow the shape of his body.
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He also is probably in pretty good shape.
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By the way, if you want to wear fitted clothing, you probably need to be in somewhat good shape.
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So he has his jacket fitted.
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You can see it kind of follows the shape of his body.
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But fitted clothing made to follow the shape of the body closely.
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Oversized clothing intentionally made larger than the person's normal size.
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You could also describe this as baggy, but I would probably say she's wearing an oversized hoodie or an oversized sweatshirt.
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Most of the time, people wear this because it's comfortable.
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They wouldn't necessarily wear this in public.
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They might wear this on a Friday when they get home from work.
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They might just put on an oversized hoodie, and some baggy jeans and just lay on the couch and watch TV and relax.
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Comfortable, comfy clothing that feels good to wear and allows for easy movement.
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This is probably the classic example of comfy clothes.
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A sweatshirt, maybe jogging pants, I'm not 100% sure.
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But clothing that just feels nice to wear.
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Clothing that you usually don't wear in public.
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Although more and more often, I see people wearing comfy clothes in public.
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And by the way, comfy is simply an informal, short form of comfortable.
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If someone said, hey, what do you do when you get home from work on a Friday?
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Usually say, oh, I just put on some comfy clothes.
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Jen and I have supper, and then sometimes we'll watch a movie.
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So, comfortable or comfy clothing that feels good to wear and allows for easy movement.
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Lightweight clothing that is light and easy to wear without feeling heavy.
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This I would describe as a lightweight jacket.
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Or you could even say light, like a light jacket.
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It's designed so that keeps you a little bit warm, maybe keeps the rain off of you.
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But it doesn't feel very heavy.
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And what's nice about a lightweight jacket is you can fold it up and carry it with you.
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And then if it starts to rain, you can easily just unfold it and put it on.
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And it's not annoying to carry it, around.
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So lightweight clothing that is light and easy to wear without feeling heavy.
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Heavy clothing that feels thick or weighty, often for warmth.
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So if I said to you, I'm gonna go outside, I'm gonna wear a heavy coat today, you probably then know that it's cold and it might even be snowing.
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So heavy isn't just about the weight.
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Like it. It's not just.
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It will be heavy, like hard to lift, but it also describes something that is thick and warm.
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It's nice to have a heavy coat.
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You need to go outside in the winter because it really, really helps keep you warm.
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Durable clothing that is strong and able to last a long time without damage.
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I would describe these as work pants.
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You can kind of tell because he has work boots on.
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And work pants are always very durable.
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When you say work pants, you often are referring to the pants that people wear who do physical labour.
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Carpenters or plumbers or bricklayers.
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I'm trying to act these out.
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Or electricians.
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No, sorry, that was a bad thing to act out.
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But if you go to a construction site, almost everyone there will be wearing some sort of durable work pants.
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Clothing that is strong and able to last, a long time without damage.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Let's Learn English! Topic: Describing Clothing 👔👖👕”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: clothing, shirt, wear, wearing, style. This video has 300 sentences and 3839 words to shadow. The speech runs for 25:17. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| clothing noun | /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/ | Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to… |
| fashionable adjective | /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/ | Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue. |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| jacket noun | /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ | A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length. |
| pants noun | /pænts/ | An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. |
| jeans noun | /d͡ʒiːnz/ | A pair of trousers made from denim cotton. |
| plain noun | /pleɪn/ | An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse. |
| formal adjective | /ˈfɔɹməl/ | In accordance with established forms. |
| fabric verb | /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/ | To cover with fabric. |
| stylish adjective | /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/ | Having style. |
| waterproof adjective | /ˈwɔt̬ɚˌpruf/ | Resistant to the effects of water. |
| casual adjective | /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/ | Happening by chance. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| chic adjective | /ʃik/ | Elegant, stylish. |
| comfy adjective | /ˈkʌm.fi/ | Comfortable. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pass through verb | To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another. | |
| put together verb | To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. | |
| act out verb | /ˌækt ˈaʊ̯t/ | To perform something specific. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| put up verb | To place in a high location. | |
| roll off verb | /ˈɹol ˈɔf/ | To spontaneously roll suddenly and rapidly to one side or the other upon entering a stall (due to one wing stalling slightly before the other does, combined… |
| wear out verb | To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Can you look wise when you dress?
- I don't go out to the club at night.
- You don't want to wear.
- I don't wear trendy clothing.
- I don't think she buys it herself.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is expected · is multicoloured · be made |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been · has repeated · have seen |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | hoodie, which is · hood, which is |
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | might be · might wear · might also wear |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 53 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, cloth /klɒθ/, thick /θɪk/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, breathable /ˈbɹiːðəbəl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: fashionable /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/, stylish /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/, chic /ʃik/, shoe /ˈʃu/
- Long words — get the stress right: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, horizontal /ˌhoɹəˈzɑn.təl/, multicolored /ˈmʌltɪˌkʌlɚd/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like clothing, fashionable, cloth.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.