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.
石垣島へ行く
いしがきとうへいくI'm going to Ishigaki Island.
ここへ入ったら、どうにかなると思って竹垣の崩れた穴から、とある邸内にもぐり込んだ
ここへはいったら、どうにかなるとおもってたけがきのくずれたあなから、とあるやしきないにもぐりこんだThinking I might be saved if I went here, I squeezed through a broken bamboo fence and snuck into the estate.
パレードの時間が近づくと人垣ができ始めた
ぱれーどのじかんがちかづくとひとがきができはじめたAs the time for the parade approached, crowds of people began to form.