--- title: "How to pronounce \"getting about\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"getting about\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/X1Pdx1BYRAU/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/getting-about" --- # How to pronounce "getting about" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/dʒɛttɪngæbæʊt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **get·tin·ga·bout** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "getting about" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "So the question is, if you're looking to the future with survival in mind-- if you are taking the warnings that we're getting about climate change and animal extinctions seriously, what are the steps that we can take as a civilization to prepare ourselves to survive? One of the first things that I think we have to consider is the fact that human beings right now" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Pdx1BYRAU&t=1182s) ### Example 2 > "finishing my time in Investment Banking but I was telling Lucy about this amazing new job I had lined up where unlike in Investment Banking where I was getting about 4 hours of sleep at night con constantly canceling on family and friends and stress to the point of panic on a daily basis no this new job would be so much better the hours would only be 8 to 8 on average and I wouldn't have to work every weekend just every other weekend or so and the paid was" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XWJp-dz5Y&t=115s) ### Example 3 > "drive financing to the places that were being neglected by microfinance because the risks were too high so when we started africa was only getting about eight percent of the total microfinance lending um and you know it's still early days for us but um we our business is about 30 in africa right now and we're dealing with new funds that are devoted to africa that have come up that are using hedging so i think we are definitely part of a shift" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOU-TQwO1as&t=227s) ### Example 4 > "ruthlessly we can enforce upon ourselves our families the advice that we're getting about avoiding unnecessary gatherings about staying at home when we have symptoms all that advice which is good advice then the better we will be able to protect our NHS the fewer deaths we will have and the less suffering" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 28:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f6hLeBGtqw&t=1739s) ### Example 5 > "course as you talking about ag exive different things that we have been getting about his different holdings coming out as we speak" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iKm5uReSW0&t=127s) ### Example 6 > "I think uh last year according to e-arketer four hours on average was spent online or in front of digital media whereas TV was uh on average getting about 3 hours per day. So the audience is shifting. When the audience shifts marketers have to find that audience. So they have to shift along and follow them. And online that means search, display advertising, email, and" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75QIzMzq6w&t=82s) ### Example 7 > "getting about a gigabyte of data per second." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 58:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7HqC_hyTfI&t=3493s) ### Example 8 > "getting about 70% of its oxygen just from drawing in water through its cloa filtering out the oxygen and pumping it back out up to 60 times a minute and the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFVvgSY8SOg&t=74s) ### Example 9 > "getting about 30% of what the SPF is because you're not going to put on a teaspoon try putting a teaspoon on your face and then say wow I'm probably" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 70:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfrtlBcgI00&t=4209s) ### Example 10 > "getting about five times well I'll say at least four times that in frame rate um with all those objects flying around the screen you know for" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 24:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwG8Xb0_S8&t=1447s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [getting](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/getting), [about](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/about) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "getting about" correctly? 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