How to pronounce curtain in American English
“curtain” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to curtain the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “curtain” in: all accents · British English (55 clips)
“curtain” in real sentences — American speakers
364 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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drop a curtain, what was the impact of the curtain?
NIST
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look from behind the curtain.
US National Archives
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infrared curtain, if you will.
CDC
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.