How to pronounce imitation
Listen to imitation 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.
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“imitation” in real sentences
273 clips in the index · 17 American · 47 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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imitation and you will notice it's not imitation of games or imitation of comics but imitation
Center for 21st Century Studies · hear it here
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some imitation of crochet.
UK Parliament · hear it here
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robotic imitation of a man.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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imitation after all my imitation lacked the scope to include characters like me or or a
Interdisciplinary Studies Institute UMass Amherst · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of imitation. 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.