Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with heartening below are plain text.

How to pronounce heartening in American English

“heartening” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to heartening the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“heartening” in real sentences — American speakers

116 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. It’s really heartening to see.

    State Department

  2. And that part of it was heartening.

    The Obama White House

  3. And they're really pretty close, which is heartening.

    Census Bureau

Words that sound like “heartening”

Words one sound away from heartening — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of heartening. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with H →