Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with hesitance below are plain text.
How to pronounce hesitance in American English
“hesitance” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to hesitance the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “hesitance” in: all accents
“hesitance” in real sentences — American speakers
28 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
And so, historically, I think there's been great hesitance.
The Obama White House
-
by the suggestion that full approval of one quasi vaccine would motivate 31% of vaccine hesitance
CDC
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hesitance. 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.