How to pronounce wha
Listen to wha 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.
“wha” in real sentences
108 clips in the index · 59 American · 4 British · 4 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Wha- But what what is old?
Channel 4 News · hear it here
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Um Wha- How How big are these events?
The Atlantic · hear it here
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Lastly, let us invite Minister Kang Kyung-wha.
State Department · hear it here
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Chan-Wha Kim: The universities were research [unintelligible].
NIH · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of wha. 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.