How to pronounce rio
Listen to rio 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.
“rio” in real sentences
504 clips in the index · 129 American · 40 British · 23 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Yeah, we went to Rio right after we went to Rio in 1992.
TED · hear it here
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situation on the border, on the Rio Grande – Río Bravo, as we call it –
State Department · hear it here
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semester in Rio de Janeiro.
caltech · hear it here
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rio grande on the night of august first the enemy planes crossed the rio grande and
Indian Stock Market Wizard · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rio. 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.