Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with occasion below are plain text.
How to pronounce occasion in American English
“occasion” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to occasion the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “occasion” in: all accents · British English (1,000+ clips)
“occasion” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
really important occasion.
The Obama White House
-
this auspicious occasion.
NIH
-
on this important occasion.
State Department
Other forms of “occasion”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of occasion. 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.