So here is a vocabulary video about shoes.

We have so many different kinds of shoes, don’t we?

In this video, you’ll sit down with me and my sister-in-law, Lisa,

while we go over many kinds of shoes and other vocabulary words relating to shoes.

You’ll get more comfortable pronouncing words like leather and ankle.

You’ll learn new terms in American English like shearling and ‘fancy pants’.

I brought my sister-in-law Lisa here to crowdsource, help me go through some shoes.

She's brought a bunch.

Let's see.

Probably too many.

No, no such thing as too many shoes.

Now Lisa just told me--

That is argument in our house.

These are basketball shoes.

Right these are my daughter's basketball shoes, there's more support in ankle there.

Okay, I was saying I'm used to only ever seeing high-top basketball shoes.

I've never seen low top basketball shoes.

There we talked about two different styles of shoes: high tops, which go above the ankle, and low tops,

which go below the ankle.

Pretty self-explanatory.

The top of the shoe is either high or low.

High tops, low tops.

Say those with me.

High tops, low tops.

I was saying I'm used to only ever seeing high-top basketball shoes.

I've never seen low top basketball shoes.

I was afraid to let her wear the low tops.

I was afraid to turn her ankle.

But I guess it's a thing now.

Okay.

So...

Savannah's very athletic because she also has soccer shoes.

Cleats.

Cleats, you would call these.

And for some reason, people like to have a very different designs.

Yeah.

They want their cleats to stand out and be different from anyone else's.

Cleats.

So we talked about basketball shoes, and now we’re talking about cleats.

Cleats are shoes that have cleats for extra grip on the bottom.

You can have soccer cleats, baseball cleats.

A lot of sports shoes are called by the name of the sport:

basketball shoes, tennis shoes, running shoes, soccer cleats.

For sprinters on a track, their shoes are called spikes, and the spikes are much smaller than a cleat.

Cleat, cleats, KL consonant cluster, EE vowel, T.

Say that with me: cleat, cleats.

The word 'spike', SP consonant cluster.

some people think they should make this a B.

not true.

it's a very light P. sp, sp, sp.

Spike.

Spikes.

Say those with me: spike, spikes.

There’s one thing I want to say about ‘tennis shoe’.

One word ends in an S, tennis, the next word begins with an SH, shoe.

We actually link these words together and the SH takes over the S.

You may have noticed, we don’t say tennis-shoe.

Tennis shoe.

We don’t make an S and then an SH.

We drop the S and connect with the SH.

Tenni-shoe.

Tenni-shoe.

Say that with me.

Tennis shoe.

The same is true of the word 'dress shoe'.

We drop the S at the end of 'dress' and connect with an SH.

Dress shoe.

Dress shoe.

A 'dress shoe' can be a term for either men's shoes or women's shoes that are more formal.

So what other sports do you wear cleats in? Baseball, right?

>> Baseball, soccer... >> And track.

>> Runners have different-- >> Right.

Those are called spikes.

>> Right? >> Yeah.

But similar.

All right we got some boots here.

Lots of boots.

So this is the kind of boot I tend to wear to work in the winter.

It helps keep the leg warmer.

>> Okay. >> When it comes up high.

Yeah.

Is this a riding boot?

Or is the riding boot the one that's black and brown?

This kind of boot can be called a 'riding boot'.

It’s basically a high boot with that defined heel to fit into stirrups.

Of course, most people buy them for fashion and not for horseback riding,

which is what they were originally made for.

Riding boot.

Did you know that ‘riding’ sounds just like this word ‘writing’ because of the Flap T?

Riding, riding boot.

Say that with me.

Riding.

Riding boot.

The word 'Boot'.

Here the letters OO make the oo sound, so your lips come into a tighter circle and then relax.

I’ll do it slowly.

Watch my lips.

Boot.

The movement into and out of the lip position is important.

You don’t want them to just be a tight circle the whole time, boot, boot, boot.

that sounds too closed: boot, boot.

Relax, round in, and relax.

Say that with me.

Boot, boot.

Notice I'm making a Stop T.

you can make this into a Flap T if you're connecting into a next word that begins with a vowel or diphthong.

This is a knee-high boot basically.

Right.

It's not an above-the-knee. That's a different boot.

There we heard two different terms to describe kinds of boots. Knee-high means it comes just below the knee.

An above-the-knee boot would look like this.

Say those with me.

Knee-high, above-the-knee.

This is a knee-high boot basically.

Right.

It's not an above-the-knee.

That's a different boot.

These are kind of ankle boots.

Right.

Or is it if this an ankle boot or is a boot that goes like that an ankle boot?

Or those come-- I think they both get called ankle boots.

And then there's booties which is funny just because it sounds like booties.

Right.

But those are the ones that are cut like that.

Yeah.

Ankle boots and booties.

What I was holding up was an ankle boot.

The pronunciation of ‘ankle’

is a little tricky because the real pronunciation doesn’t match what you’ll see in a dictionary.

What you’ll see in the dictionary is this, the AA vowel followed by the NG consonant.

AA-ng, ang, ang, AA-nkle.

That’s not how we pronounce it.

Ankle.

The NG sound changes the AA Vowel so it’s more like the AY diphthong: AY, ankle.

Ankle boot.

Say that with me.

Ankle boot.

Then we have bootie.

This can either be a boot like this, or, it’s also something for newborn babies, like this.

They’re both called booties.

The T here is a Flap T because it comes between two vowels.

Booties.

Also, ‘bootie’ is a slang term for your butt.

Booties.

Booties.

Say that with me.

Booties.

These are kind of ankle boots.

Right.

Or is it, is this an ankle boot or is a boot that goes like that an ankle boot?

Or those come-- I think they both get called ankle boots.

And then there's booties which is funny just because it sounds like booties.

Booty, right.

But those are the ones that are cut like that.

Yeah.

Suede.

And suede definitely.

So this is leather.

Different from suede.

Leather and suede.

Two common types of materials that shoes are made of Leather.

This has that tricky TH.

Here it’s voiced, th, th, leather.

Notice it’s just the very tip of the tongue that comes through the teeth.

Leath, th, leather, leather.

Your tongue tip is already forward for the EH vowel, for that, it’s just behind the teeth.

So to make the TH, just bring it up, put it out a bit, and then bring your teeth together.

Leath- th, th, th, leather.

Say that with me.

Leather.

Suede.

SW consonant cluster, the AY diphthong.

Sue-- suede.

Usually the SW cluster is written with the letters S-W.

But in a few cases, like ‘suede’ or ‘suite’, it’s written with the letters S-U.

Suede.

Say that with me.

Suede.

Suede.

And suede definitely.

So this is leather.

Different from suede.

This one's got shearling inside.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

That's a, that is a cozy looking boot.

Shearling is that wooly stuff inside, lining the boot.

Very warm and comfortable in the winter.

The word ‘shearling’ can refer to a sheep who has had his wool cut off, or the wool itself.

This word would be written with the IH as in SIT vowel,

but when that’s followed by an R consonant in a stressed syllable, it’s more like the EE vowel,

Shea— shearr-- shearling.

Shearling.

Say that with me.

Shearling.

Suede.

And suede definitely.

So this is leather.

Different from suede.

This one's got shearling inside.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

That's a, that is a cozy looking boot.

That's what i wear around the house in the winter because i get such cold feet.

Did you hear my sister-in-law say she wears these boots around the house in the winter

because she gets ‘such cold feet’?

Her feet are cold!

That’s the literal meaning of this phrase.

But we also use ‘cold feet’ as an idiom and that means something totally different.

Do you know this idiom?

You’ll learn it here next week when we make a video that goes over idioms related to shoes like cold feet,

big shoes to fill, and a shoestring budget.

So be sure to come back to find that video here next week, Tuesday morning, Eastern time.

That's what I wear around the house in the winter because I get such cold feet.

Cold feet.

We'll do that next week in the idioms video.

>> That'll be a fun one. >> That'll be a fun one.

>> I shoe do wish I could see that one now! >> You shoe do!

Lisa said ‘shoe do’ instead of ‘sure do’, ‘I sure do wish I could’.

This is a pun, a play on words since we’re talking about shoes.

Okay, here we have clogs.

Yes. those are clogs.

Classic.

Lot of clogs have a wooden sole. These are rubber.

Mm-hmm.

Still called a clog.

Clog.

We also talked about two possible materials for the sole of the shoes,

that is, the part on the bottom that touches the street.

They can be wooden, made of wood, or rubber.

Clog.

The letter O makes the AH as in FATHER sound here.

Clog.

Say that with me.

Clog.

When we went over ‘boot’, you learned the letters OO make the OO sound.

Here, in ‘wood’ or ‘wooden’, they make the UH as in PUSH vowel. Uh, woo-, wood, wooden.

Remember ‘wood’ and ‘would’ are homophones – their pronunciation is the same. Wood, wooden.

Say these with me.

Wood, wooden.

So here are some more suede boots and these have a lower heel than others.

There's different heights of heels go with different outfits.

This is high.

This is a high heel.

That's a high bootie.

Yes. This is a high bootie, ankle boot, I cannot wear shoes this high.

I, sometimes I wear shoes when I need a tall attitude.

Yeah.

Those are tall attitude shoes.