--- title: "How to pronounce \"looking out\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"looking out\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/A5ocxarfbkE/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/looking-out" --- # How to pronounce "looking out" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/lʌːkɪngæʊt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **loo·kin·gout** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "looking out" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "And I was here-- here, I was in London, sorry-- this morning I was in London. Looking out on the trading floor of the equity sales team could have used some diversity shall we say. The corporate finance equity research departments could have used some diversity." - **Watch at 12:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ocxarfbkE&t=775s) ### Example 2 > "--looking out on a winter day in Boston, that seemed like a very cool thing to write down." - **Watch at 41:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RLy4cwyh4&t=2504s) ### Example 3 > "looking out 3,000 light-years but at one patch of sky, without blinking." - **Watch at 38:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzgm-uFYhSA&t=2306s) ### Example 4 > "looking out for me." - **Watch at 10:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYJizul-76M&t=653s) ### Example 5 > "Looking out slightly longer term, the crazy, radical ideas that we have in the book are things like-- how many of us have heard of the Earned Income" - **Watch at 21:32**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kum_7D9EORs&t=1292s) ### Example 6 > "Um and when I mean customer driven, it's not always a customer coming to us and saying they need something. It's us looking out into the world and saying, "What is missing? Why Why are there issues?" And then engaging in it. Um so, it it comes with a a certain amount of confidence is that if it's not defined by the laws of" - **Watch at 25:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc1e7J6Stmg&t=1505s) ### Example 7 > "systems. We don’t want to have women not be hired because we are suspicious of them, and in which women and men are constantly afraid of each other, suspicious of each other and looking out for the way that each of them is going to take advantage of the other or is going to lash out at the other. We do want a culture in which there is a greater sense of understanding, a greater sense of empathy, in which men understand the experiences of women and in which women understand the" - **Watch at 6:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74PFn6jqj3M&t=389s) ### Example 8 > "This is again just to show you, some of the changes over time, and at McKinsey, what we did was forecast a demand and supply for jobs. Looking out to 2020, and what you see is there's gonna be a big, excess demand versus supply for skilled jobs. And there's gonna be an excess supply of unskilled workers." - **Watch at 23:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4-MyLj-LdE&t=1391s) ### Example 9 > "particular spot that we were surfing and of course as is the case nobody ever listens and the swells start building and all of a sudden I'm looking I'm looking out at Sea I'm paddling out and I see the sky just go dark and this Rogue set starts rolling in and there's a whole series of 30 40 people caught in this Impact Zone and three or four people paddling up behind it needless to say what happens is that this Rogue Wave hits shatters the boards and the leashes" - **Watch at 3:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqoA-vAbRs&t=216s) ### Example 10 > "- Just imagine being the person standing on the shore, looking out into the ocean, standing on the shore of a harsh environment, looking out to the ocean of even a harsh environment, and deciding that, you know, what I'm going to go towards near certain death, and explore. - You don't know what's on the other side of that water." - **Watch at 96:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMHiLvirCb0&t=5813s) ## How to Pronounce "looking out" - **Syllables**: loo · kin · gout - **IPA**: `/lʌːkɪngæʊt/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [figure out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/figure-out), [work out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/work-out), [make sense of](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/make-sense-of), [find out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/find-out), [sort out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sort-out), [clear up](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clear-up), [point out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/point-out), [bring up](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bring-up) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “looking out”? “looking out” is pronounced /lʌːkɪngæʊt/ (loo · kin · gout). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “looking out”? “looking out” has 3 syllables: loo · kin · gout. ### How can I hear “looking out” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “looking out” with synchronized subtitles. 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