How to pronounce smiling in British English
“smiling” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to smiling the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “smiling” in: all accents · American English (399 clips)
“smiling” in real sentences — British speakers
190 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Pauline Gordon is smiling.
The Scottish Parliament
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The Suffragette sisters are smiling on us today.
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “smiling”
Words one sound away from smiling — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “smiling”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of smiling. 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.