How to pronounce curtain in British English
“curtain” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to curtain the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “curtain” in: all accents · American English (364 clips)
“curtain” in real sentences — British speakers
55 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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create a sort of uh quai iron curtain or tartan curtain that would stop democratically elected
The Scottish Parliament
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behind the Iron Curtain today in different corners of the world there are millions of people
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “curtain”
Words one sound away from curtain — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “curtain”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of curtain. 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.