How native speakers pronounce “speaks”

I saw a great T-shirt recently, which said, "If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"

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and then send it back out through the door. To somebody who speaks Chinese, standing outside this room,

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so my first language is Austrian German, and my husband is from Australia, so he speaks English. So these kinds of conversations, misunderstandings,

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only to roam and then become the wind. She who speaks in gusts and cyclones blasting us back to high ground, high consciousness,

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It could even be a quiet walk in the fynbos to see if a certain plant speaks up to you. That happens.

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