How to pronounce flats
Listen to flats 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.
“flats” in real sentences
744 clips in the index · 19 American · 463 British · 37 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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>> Something actually about his flats because I went to flats.
British Library · hear it here
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flats built in their place.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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You can see these really beautiful tidal flats, sandy tidal flats out into the ocean.
GeoscienceAustralia · hear it here
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that maybe there are better flats out there, cheaper flats, or I think the classic one
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of flats. 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.