Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with motown below are plain text.
How to pronounce motown
“motown” pronunciation in American English
Listen to motown 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.
Hear “motown” in: American English (57 clips)
“motown” in real sentences
144 clips in the index · 57 American. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
That's not Motown, not Motown, that ain't Motown.
Smithsonian Air & Space
-
for Motown, you all know Motown out of Detroit, great soul singers.
The Obama White House
-
The very first Earth Day was in 1970, before Motown really was called Motown.
Talks at Google
-
- It was a Motown house too.
Vanity Fair
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of motown. 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.