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I've been watching some staged psychotherapy sessions as part of various training videos and conferences, as well as listening to the Shrink Rap pod casts, and one thing I've noticed is that as an Australian speaker, until the conversation seems to begin flowing and the rate of speech becomes a lot quicker, it is exceedingly frustrating for me to listen to a lot of US voiced podcasts, lectures, acted out psychotherapy sessions and so on. Has anyone else experienced or dealt with that cross cultural shift where one cultures speech rate of English is faster or slower than the others, causing either confusion or frustration, and how do you view or deal with that? Just to clarify as well I'm not talking about pressure of speech, but just normal speech rates for a particular segment of English speaking culture or background.