How to pronounce babel
Listen to babel in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“babel” in real sentences
101 clips in the index · 1 American · 4 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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or Babel blah blah blah just to distinguish it from Babel Tower of in the Old
British Library · hear it here
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It was like the Tower of Babel.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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Library of Babel,” by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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Babel Mandabra, Saudi Arabia has got a big problem.
Channel 4 News · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of babel. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.