How to pronounce opera in American English
“opera” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to opera the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “opera” in: all accents · British English (258 clips)
“opera” in real sentences — American speakers
203 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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got a degree in Opera and I was an opera singer for a while and then
NASA
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The Press: As a soap opera producer.
The Obama White House
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And that was like the funky opera.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “opera”
Words one sound away from opera — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “opera”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of opera. 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.