How to pronounce oak
Listen to oak 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.
“oak” in real sentences
806 clips in the index · 192 American · 121 British · 12 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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oak, as opposed to the wood that comes from a red oak.
US Forest Service · hear it here
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>> oak tree or something.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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got a lot of oak trees fantastic those oak trees now are less important
How To Academy · hear it here
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cask notes, some oak notes.
60 Minutes · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of oak. 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.