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.
安いボールペンの使いにくさは価格相応と割りきるしかない
やすいぼーるぺんのつかいにくさはかかくそうおうとわりきるしかないYou just have to accept that cheap ballpoint pens being hard to use is what you'd expect for the price.
ボールペンがほしいです
ぼーるぺんがほしいですI want a ballpoint pen.
ボールペンをカチカチ鳴らす癖、自分では気づかないうちにしてることない?
ぼーるぺんをかちかちならすくせ、じぶんではきづかないうちにしてることない?The habit of clicking a ballpoint pen—don't you do it without noticing?