天澤園, Good reading, and keep up with it.
It needs time to build up one's muscles, you might not realize your progress, however, once you've noticed the porgress, you've advanced a lot already.
One point I want to share is on back-mouth sounding. I feel that the starting point of the sound and the vibration of vocal fold are the key. For example, when we pronounce the voiceless consonant /p/ and voiced consonant /b/, we might purposefully feel/let the sound initiating from the vocal cord area, and feel the vocal fold vibrating (at least slightly), esp. for the voiced /b/. Such practice would speedy our back mouth sounding, and make our pronunciation more native.
Specific comments on your reading:
Some are one time error and you might recover in the next reading, some might be negligence of the skill and needs to be point out, anyhow, I just list them all (my first catch in the reading):
infinite -> the first syllable needs accent; you emphasized the middle syllable;
crosses -> the suffix 'es' needs to be read out /-siz/;
wing -> emphasize the sound of -ing; distinguish 'wing' from 'win'
albatross -> the 'l' sound should be sounded out; you pronounced the starting 'l' good, but not the 'l' sound behind a vowel;
yield -> same as above, and pronounce it as two syllables would help;
nearer -> the /-rer/ sound needs to be out;
tire -> treat the word as two syllable pronunciation
pick -> this word has a lax vowel /i/ (short vowel), not a long vowel /i:/
measure -> note the sound of the second syllable
Happy studies
billnet
more comments and some supplement to lovchina's
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• 也受益匪淺,謝謝!哪天也上傳一段audio,請指正。 -好學又好問- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/11/2009 postreply 19:14:59
• Welcome, Looking forward to reading your post & audio! -天澤園- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/11/2009 postreply 19:30:21
• Thanks a lot, I appreciate it ! -天澤園- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/11/2009 postreply 19:24:10