Please give some advice on the accent (audio sample)

Goddess   Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:43 am GMT
http://lynda-spokenglish.blogspot.com/2009/10/audio-sample-and-we-gather-here-to.html

I had only listened to that one! That is the one I said sounds like a native speaker. But I just listened to the last one, and it's completely different, that's not the same person! The person in the last clip has a foreign accent, probably Asian.
Lynda   Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:53 am GMT
To CID
Thank you for honestly pointing out my problems, I will try to correct them later on.
Your guess is right, I speak an Asian language. Indeed, there is a "l" and "n" sounds in my mother tongue, and they are distinctive and should be pronounced differently. But for some reason, I always mess them up. No wonder I have this problem in English speaking too.

Another problem , as you mentioned, The "Most-uh women..." , and "...caused-uh by..." . It is an sign of lacking smoothness in my speech. I find some material in BBC which addresses this issue:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/progs/prog2.shtml#ellision

It says:
"Sounds disappear (elision)
When the sounds /t/ or /d/ occur between two consonant sounds, they will often disappear completely from the pronunciation.

I'm going nex(t) week
That was the wors(t) job I ever had!
Jus(t) one person came "
Lynda   Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:02 am GMT
To Goddess,
The link you refer to is not my voice. In fact, it is from a quite famous TV host in East Asian. Her name is Patty Hou. She once studied in a university in US, so she has accent almost like native speakers.
She has interviewed quite some mega stars in music industry, like Sarah Brightman
(http://lynda-spokenglish.blogspot.com/2009/10/patty-hou-interview-of-sarah-brightman.html)

And Jay-Z
(http://lynda-spokenglish.blogspot.com/2009/10/patty-hous-interview-with-hip-hop-king.html)