How to pronounce light
Listen to light in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“light” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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Red light has lower energy than blue light.
CDC · watch from 4:01 · hear it here
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infrared light and longer wavelengths of infrared light.
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 22:36 · hear it here
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compare them against light for light stations elsewhere.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 103:41 · hear it here
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>> Atoms and molecules, they emit light, they absorb light.
NIST · watch from 0:22 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of light. 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.