it did take me half an hour to compose that

as I was moved by your effort.

Additional comments:
1. you might be practising the basic sounds now, ie, the 48 (more or less) phonetic transcript sounds. If yes, keep up with that, if no, suggesting you to engage on them by following a pronounciation book or having a tutor simultaneously, those sounds are the basis, the building blocks of words pronounciation, without which you will find harder to progress further;
2. after mastering thesounds roughly, take up a simple basic book to follow, 英語900句 is a good choice (http://web.wenxuecity.com/BBSView.php?SubID=mysj&MsgID=51001), follow/imitate/repeat it until you're satisfied.
3. take up an accent training book to further train yourself, like, "American Accent Training" from which you will learn further language skills which will benefit you in both listening and speaking;
4. to that stage, it's beyond my ability to offer further suggestion.

p.s. This is my friendly suggestions as I am just touched by your learning spirit and want to offer my part, no matter it helps or not, just my two cents. And feel offended if some words are strong.

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• 回複：it did take me half an hour to compose that -billnet- ♂ (55 bytes) () 08/18/2009 postreply 07:17:57

• 可以感覺到你熱心幫助的誠意.再次感謝. -ntotl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/18/2009 postreply 19:13:17