agreed. to conclude "more slowly" there needs to be more than just syllable counting. For example, would not "strengths" be considered one syllable? I don't k

agreed. to conclude "more slowly" there needs to be more than just syllable counting. For example, would not "strengths" be considered one syllable? I don't know about Japanese, but Mandarin has a linguistic syllabic structure that would not allow for such long syllables.