One of the things I've started doing with my new tablet is jumping into a language app (Pimsleur) to learn Japanese and a problem I'm running into, trying to say words out loud, is I keep wanting to drag out my consonants, both due to southern drawl and due to if I talk slower it gives me more time to think, except in Japanese phonetics how long you draw out your vowels has semantic content so my southern drawl is actually probably destroying the comprehensibility of the words I'm saying