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.
右はエレベーター、左はエスカレーター、後ろは階段です。
みぎはえれべーたー、ひだりはえすかれーたー、うしろはかいだんです。On the right is the elevator, on the left the escalator, and behind you the stairs.
エレベーターとエスカレーター、どっちが先に発明されたか知ってる？
えれべーたーとえすかれーたー、どっちがさきにはつめいされたかしってる？Do you know which was invented first, the elevator or the escalator?