How to pronounce half
Listen to half in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“half” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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I am half Honduran, half Mexican.
NASA · watch from 15:44 · hear it here
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half full and not half empty.
NIH · watch from 105:10 · hear it here
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We had them half and half.
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 31:27 · hear it here
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with yesterday's half-hearted, half-baked, and already half-botched proposals.
UK Parliament · watch from 16:39 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of half. 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.