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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee

Good point. It's useless to explain the little っ with that "one t vs two t's " logic because the little っ sound exists only in several languages and English isn't one of them. Those are Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Italian, etc. This is called "gemination".

Believe me, those English-speakers who tell you that the little っ is easy to pronounce usually cannot do so themselves. They so often end up elongating the preceding syllable instead of correctly "geminateing" the following consonant.

Nagoyankeeさん、何カ国語を話せますか？