audio example by a male speaker
audio example by a female speaker
the above transcription of region is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.
press buttons with phonetic symbols to learn how to precisely pronounce each sound of region
press the "test" button to check how closely you can replicate the pitch of a native speaker in your pronunciation of region
An example use of region in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… to people in the region that this is not …”
A region is a part of a country that is not a state.
the word region occurs in english on average 36.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.