How to pronounce shale
Listen to shale 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.
“shale” in real sentences
354 clips in the index · 25 American · 71 British · 130 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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so you go along like this where it's like black shale black shale black shale black
Jason Loxton · hear it here
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our shale gas assessment.
GeoscienceAustralia · hear it here
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cheaply, from rock called shale.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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of the Burgess Shale seabed.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shale. 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.