Hi sam!

I hope this will help more

you should pronounce,

もっとゆっくりはなしてください read: motto yukkuri hanashite kudasai

（noもっとゆっくりではなしてください）

ちょっとまって　chotto matte

まってください　matte kudasai

for japanese, 

(もっと motto) and (もと moto) is not the same.

Hi, Sam! This confused me at first too. Essentially, っ serves to extend whatever consonent comes after it. 

So then, kekkon (marriage) is spelled けっこん instead of けこん. Without っ, the word doesn't account for the extra "k" in the middle.

Moving, or bikkoshi びっこし instead of びこし.

I hope that helps!

thank you it helps although just after i posted this i figured it out :L ,typical, thank you again.