I like米吃油。My problem is

while listening to CBC, most of the time I can catch the main idea of what the reporters and announcers have carried out. For some big words I can take a guess, but I might get lost in  some small words which are spoken quickly together that the consonant is taken over as the initial sound of the following word, which so called lianson. I think your class is very helpful to me. Thank you again for your help!