Hello again. I can see that you have made some improvement by now, but I also noticed that you used a lot of Scientific American listening as the everyday listening material. Just curious to know whether you are doing this dictation to practise your listening for a specific exam right now or just as a means of improving?
From my own past experience, it is harder to write scientific passages down even if you can understand the meanings as some of the words are rarely seen in everyday life.(I took a Chemistry class and there's no textbook so we have to take notes in class, but the prof sometimes will write the words down for us, so I guess, even for native speakers, to be 100% actuate in a dictation on science topic would be difficult.) And as you can probably see in the dictations you have posted here, a fair amount of mistakes you made are on scientific words, especially these two days.
If you are not training for a science-oriented purpose, maybe you can think about use other materials as dictation materials. Or at least not use Scientific American as the primary source of listening materials, it is certainly challenging enough, but maybe not the most helpful ones.
From your recent dictation record, you might want to first improve on distinguishing voicing( difference between s,z; t,d; p,b, etc. and liaison(sorry, don't know whether there is a English term for this, basically just when people speak fast, the final consonant and the following vowel are "put together" and sounds like one word. )
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A million thanks for your helpful suggestions!!!!
Sorry for replying so late as I've been out without studying these days.
Use SA as the primary material ... Mainly because it is short. - -b. It just tak