How to pronounce les in American English
“les” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to les the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “les” in: all accents · British English (94 clips)
“les” in real sentences — American speakers
111 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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and "Vive les États-Unis!"
The Obama White House
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next to Leslie is Les Johnson Les is the solar cell principal investigator for the Nia
NASA
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Les Preston: Yeah, you can look at it.
Census Bureau
Words that sound like “les”
Words one sound away from les — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of les. 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.