Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [休止]

Railroad service was suspended because of the fog.

I propose a short rest.

This register is out of commission.

He suggested that we take a short rest.

He proposed that we take a small break.

In spoken language, we do not pause between words, a fact that is somewhat surprising: We seem to hear separate words, we can clearly make them out.

However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discern different words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of sounds without many pauses.