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I'm a 4th year linguistics student (applied ling with heavy emphasis on teaching English as a second language). I've got a Japanese friend who has been living in Canada for over 2 years and hasn't improved much as far as her pronunciation goes. I'm looking for basic excersizes and things she can do ...

American English seems like it is a lot easier to understand. The British accent constantly leaves sounds out, says things oddly such as "aluminium", etc.

Australians and Brits have told me that we (Canadians) speak slowly. Maybe there's truth to that.