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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to English Cozy Chat,

a slow English podcast which helps you to learn English in a fun and natural way.

I'm Maria, and today we are going to have a fun chat about how I feel about clothes.

But first, as always, let's talk about my cozy drink of the moment,

and that is some mint tea.

I really wanted to drink a second cup of coffee this morning,

but I did not because every time I do that,

it makes it hard for me to sleep and it's never good.

I try this many times and I think, hey, maybe it won't affect my sleep today and it always does.

So today I thought, okay,

I'll just have a cup of tea instead and I'm drinking out of my coffee cup that I made or teacup today.

So cheers you guys.

Now for today's episode I really wanted to talk about clothes because there is something that I've been thinking about.

I want to start off with a story.

I went to the United States in May, and when I was there,

my mom had this jacket there that she had had for a long time,

which I bought 20 years ago

and she said do you want this jacket you told me to get rid of it a long time ago

but I didn't and here you go do you want it back

and it was a little bit cold

so I thought okay no I'll just wear it now and

that will be good and then I started wearing it and I was like wow this is so comfortable.

This jacket I bought 20 years ago

and I wore it almost every day of the winter for maybe eight years in a row.

I wore this jacket a lot and I think I wore it

so much that I got sick of it and I didn't want to wear it anymore.

And for that reason, I told my mom, just sell it, give it away, get rid of it because I didn't want it.

But now I'm like, oh, this is so cozy.

It is really warm.

And I like it because it's really soft on the inside and the outside.

So I can put it on in the morning right when I wake up.

And I can also leave my house in it and it's just a jacket.

It's not like a jacket or a coat

that I need to put on and take off every time I leave the house.

It's comfortable for me to wear both inside and outside.

And I'm not sure why,

you guys, but this is just making me really happy to have my old jacket back that I bought 20 years ago.

One, because I think it brings back old memories of when I used to wear this jacket a lot.

I wore this jacket so much in a fun time of my life,

and it just feels good to wear it again.

And another thing is it's very comfortable,

so soft and really warm keeps me warm without being too hot

and that's why I can wear it inside and outside

and I also feel good to be using something that at one point I said I wanted to get rid of.

So, this is why I've started to think a little bit more about clothes over the past days.

Because, for example, this is a nice jacket.

This is nice.

It's quality.

And that's why I can still wear this.

And I will probably be able to wear this many years to come

but now I feel like it's always so tempting to buy things

that I kind of like but there's certain things

that I don't like about it and maybe the quality is not very good but I end up buying things anyway.

Just because I feel like, hey, why not?

Like, it's not that expensive.

I can buy this and wear it sometimes.

But the truth is, in my case, and everyone's different.

If I don't love something when I buy it

and I don't think wow this feels great

and for me now what is most important is

that clothes are comfortable and that the fabric feels good on my skin

and that I can breathe well and that I put it on

and I feel good that's the most important thing

and maybe I have a dress or a shirt or something that looks really nice,

but it's not comfortable for whatever reason.

And I just will not wear it.

I know myself and I won't.

Even if I want to, I'm like, oh, I want to wear this pretty dress.

But then I'll try it on and say, oh, no, because it doesn't feel good.

And I feel like now with so many options of clothes and stores and brands and styles,

it can be very overwhelming.

At least me, I'm not a very fashionable person at all.

Like, I don't know anything about fashion, really.

I appreciate good fashion, and I appreciate it when people look nice.

And I also like to feel good in what I'm wearing and to look nice.

But it's actually, it's hard for me to know what is in style

or what is the kind of right thing to wear as far as styles go

so I just feel like there is a lot of options out there

and for me it can be very overwhelming and even the other day I had seen some things on a website.

I do online shopping mainly because I hate actually going shopping and I saw some clothes that I thought looked nice.

I thought hey that looks good and then I was at the store one day

and I saw those same pieces of clothing that I saw online

and I thought oh that doesn't look as nice as I thought

or I tried them on and I thought this just doesn't this doesn't look as nice

and quality as it did on my computer so that's also something

that I have to really be careful about the truth is I think

that we should normalize wearing less clothes wearing less not less clothes

but less variety I think

it is perfectly fine to wear the same thing two days in a row as long as you are clean

and you feel good and you're not dirty,

I think people feel like, you know, you need to always change.

Obviously, if your shirt is dirty or whatever, you should change it.

But still, like some people want lots of variety

and to not ever wear the same thing twice in a short amount of time.

But I really think it's completely okay and actually good

if we have less options and only wear the things that you like.

And more importantly, the things that you feel good in and that you feel confident in and that make you feel comfortable.

Now that being said, I have a closet full of clothes

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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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Slow English Chat ☕ How I feel about CLOTHES”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: wear, clothes, jacket, closet, rid. This video has 148 sentences and 1805 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:45. The speaker talks at a steady 115 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% 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
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.
closet noun	/ˈklɑzɪt/	A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
mindset noun	/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/	A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.
fashionable adjective	/ˈfæʃənəbl̩/	Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.
membership noun		The state of being a member of a group or organization.
trash noun	/tɹæʃ/	Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
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.
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…
sheet noun	/ʃit/	A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
coat noun	/ˈkoʊ̯t/	An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
breathe verb	/bɹiːð/	To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
grammar noun	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
podcast noun	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
clean out verb		To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
bring back verb	/ˈbɹɪŋ bæk/	To fetch something.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
give away verb		To make a gift of (something).
go along with verb		To acquiesce to or comply with a proposal, despite lacking a desire or value for it.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
take off verb		To remove.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

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

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should normalize · should change · should be
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction	won't affect · I'll just have · I'll just wear
Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary	need to put · have to really be · need to always change
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now	I'm drinking · is just making · I'm wearing

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 42 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: cloth /klɒθ/, clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, breathe /bɹiːð/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: fashionable /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/, trash /tɹæʃ/, sheet /ʃit/, donation /doʊˈneɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like cloth, jacket, closet.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?