These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.
ここからしばらく様子を見る
ここからしばらくようすをみるLet's wait and see for a while.
しばらくして泣いたら書生がまた迎えに来てくれるかと考え付いた
しばらくしてないたらしょせいがまたむかえにきてくれるかとかんがえついたAfter a while it occurred to me that if I cried, the student might come back for me.
しばらく使っていると重くなってくる
しばらくつかっているとおもくなってくるAfter using it for a while, it becomes slow.