How to pronounce yankee in American English
“yankee” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to yankee the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“yankee” in real sentences — American speakers
99 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
National Archives
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a Yankee, but I guess I will."
The Obama White House
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to Texas, you should probably put away the Yankee.
Dept of Justice
Words that sound like “yankee”
Words one sound away from yankee — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “yankee”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of yankee. 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.