How to pronounce hula
Listen to hula in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“hula” in real sentences
51 clips in the index · 20 American · 1 British · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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He literally saved the hula from extinction.
Census Bureau · hear it here
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Teen Shan: Don’t forget the horizontal hula!
CrashCourse · hear it here
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We hula-hooped, and we danced our asses off.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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just like our community's oral histories, hula and chants.
TED · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hula. 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.