How to pronounce selves in American English
“selves” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to selves the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “selves” in: all accents · British English (45 clips)
“selves” in real sentences — American speakers
135 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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full selves, so that everyone can bring their full selves.
The Obama White House
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by their future selves foreign
Federal Reserve
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feels like completely different selves.
National Park Service
Words that sound like “selves”
Words one sound away from selves — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of selves. 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.