How to pronounce softly
Listen to softly 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.
“softly” in real sentences
240 clips in the index · 41 American · 13 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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I think that softly softly approach is appropriate for New Zealand.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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banks speak even more softly.
Federal Reserve · hear it here
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>> softly spoken school bus driver.
Channel 4 News · hear it here
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sell your books in Germany, you have to go softly softly on the Palestinian issue."
How To Academy · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of softly. 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.