How to pronounce rain
Listen to rain in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“rain” in real sentences
779 clips in the index · 535 American · 244 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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>> will Supplementary rain.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 5:04 · hear it here
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periods of very little rain.
FEMA · watch from 0:36 · hear it here
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fly through rain and thunderstorms.
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 14:49 · hear it here
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Aggregate, graupel, sleet, ice, rain.
NSF · watch from 5:30 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rain. 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.