Refining Vowel Length and Double Consonants

Looking back at my journey, I've realized how easily beginners overlook the rhythmic precision needed for words like 厚生 or the crisp pause in 解散. It is quite common to truncate the long vowels or miss the geminate consonant's weight. Once I started treating every mora as an equal beat, my pronunciation felt much more natural. What were the hardest sounds for you to distinguish when starting out?