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.
俳句と短歌の違いはご存じですか。知っていましたか。
はいくとたんかのちがいはごぞんじですか。しっていましたか。Do you know the difference between haiku and tanka? Did you know?
最近公開された映画の主役が誰か、ご存じですか。
さいきんこうかいされたえいがのしゅやくがだれか、ごぞんじですか。Do you know who the star of the recently released movie is?