How to pronounce folks
Listen to folks in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“folks” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 422 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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folks I believe it's something for folks elsewhere t folks elsewhere there's folks elsewhere there's something.
Dept of Justice · watch from 27:43 · hear it here
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folks are the volunteers.
FAA · watch from 51:47 · hear it here
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folks outside the country.
Federal Reserve · watch from 2:45 · hear it here
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Perdue: Hello there, folks.
USDA · watch from 0:17 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of folks. 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.