How to pronounce manila
Listen to manila 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.
“manila” in real sentences
169 clips in the index · 56 American · 1 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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bureaus from Manila to Jakarta.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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And then we have - anyone who's been to Manila, the main thoroughfare in Manila is
Census Bureau · hear it here
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I ripped the manila envelope open.
The Moth · hear it here
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>> we would put in a manila envelope.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of manila. 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.