How to pronounce downtown
Listen to downtown 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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“downtown” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 331 American · 17 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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right downtown Summerland.
CBC News · hear it here
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traffic into downtown Boston.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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kind of touches downtown.
The Moth · hear it here
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pocket in downtown Budapest.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of downtown. 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.