How to pronounce tongue in American English
“tongue” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to tongue the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “tongue” in: all accents · British English (241 clips)
“tongue” in real sentences — American speakers
254 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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It can look like a tongue, maybe, like he's sticking his tongue out.
The Obama White House
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Just rolls off the tongue.
NIST
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That one was a tongue twister, huh?
NIH
Words that sound like “tongue”
Words one sound away from tongue — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “tongue”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tongue. 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.