How to pronounce basketball
Listen to basketball 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.
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“basketball” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 216 American · 44 British · 18 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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I spent 1,000 hours dribbling the basketball, passing the basketball, shooting the basketball.
TED · hear it here
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So I wanted to play basketball, because I loved basketball.
The Moth · hear it here
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basketball players alleged
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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Everybody plays basketball.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of basketball. 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.