How to pronounce pauses in American English
“pauses” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to pauses the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “pauses” in: all accents · British English (57 clips)
“pauses” in real sentences — American speakers
218 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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with regard to pauses having more extensive pauses.
State Department
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[Kevin Pauses to Think] Actually, yeah.
CDC
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And so, the story ends, or pauses,
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “pauses”
Words one sound away from pauses — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “pauses”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pauses. 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.