How to pronounce lake
Listen to lake in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“lake” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 90 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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south of Yellowstone Lake, near Heart Lake.
USGS · watch from 4:34 · hear it here
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from Salt Lake actually the Great Salt Lake.
NSF · watch from 11:09 · hear it here
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the lake, and it was a fairly sizable lake.
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 1:24 · hear it here
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Topaz Lake CDP, Topaz Lake, KD Douglas County, Nevada, and then Topaz Ranch Estates, Topaz Lake
Census Bureau · watch from 35:39 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lake. 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.