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.
今日はすごく寒いね
きょうはすごくさむいねIt's really cold today.
今日一日難儀したけれど、今度はこんないいこともある
きょういちにちなんぎしたけれど、こんどはこんないいこともあるI had a hard time all day today, but now there's something nice like this too.