How to pronounce hopeless in British English
“hopeless” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to hopeless the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “hopeless” in: all accents · American English (172 clips)
“hopeless” in real sentences — British speakers
136 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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quite hopeless at baking.
The Scottish Parliament
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It is completely hopeless.
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “hopeless”
Words one sound away from hopeless — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “hopeless”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hopeless. 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.