How to pronounce whales
Listen to whales 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.
“whales” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 217 American · 42 British · 80 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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We see baleen whales out there like fin whales.
US Fish & Wildlife Service · hear it here
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and the blue whales and Bing whales so the tooth whales their nostrils take different paths
British Library · hear it here
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three examples humpback whales minky whales and killer whales they all have different noises that they
DCCEEW · hear it here
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stay there longer so we're hearing killer whales and Finn whales and humpback whales move into
NSF · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of whales. 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.