How to pronounce tokyo
Listen to tokyo 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.
“tokyo” in real sentences
908 clips in the index · 196 American · 42 British · 9 Australian · 5 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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I lived in Japan Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo 10 years and in fact I was just being
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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China, Tokyo, and Beijing.
State Department · hear it here
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you're also preparing for Tokyo correct you've got Tokyo coming up
Avalon Institute · hear it here
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in Tokyo and the oldest woman in Tokyo were they paying them like Social
The Atlantic · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tokyo. 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.