Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with yuri below are plain text.

How to pronounce yuri in American English

“yuri” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to yuri the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“yuri” in real sentences — American speakers

482 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. Russian cosmina Yuri malenchenko

    NASA

  2. Was Yuri Gagarin from Russia.

    Smithsonian Air & Space

  3. for European and Eurasian Affairs Yuri Kim.

    State Department

Words that sound like “yuri”

Words one sound away from yuri — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of yuri. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with Y →