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20, Jan. 2012 BBC news  [One piece]  

Algeria says its special forces have stormed a large gas plant in Sahara ending a crisis which began when Islamist militants seized it and took hundreds of hostages on Wednesday. The Algerian army says its forces killed 11 Islamist militants who remait= =[remained at] the plant. It says the kidnappers had[have] begun killing seven foreign hostages they were still holding and they[had] mind[mined] the facility. Algeria now says the[that] 23 hostages and 32 militants have been killed overall. The American Defent[Defense] Secretary Leon Panetta says[said] those responsible for all such attacks would be persued[pursued].

“Just as we cannot accept terrorism attacks against our cities, we cannot accept attacks against our citizens and our interests border[abroad]. Neither can we accept anal-Qauda[al-Qaeda] safe haven anywhere in the world.”

[RED WORDS] are correct.
Misspellings: pursued; al-Qaeda
Words misheard:   remained at; have; had; mined; Defense; abroad;　
      SMALL WORDS: have; had;said
Words and phrases need to know:    
1. remain [ri'mein] V. 逗留, 留下
2. mine [main]   v. 用地雷炸
3. Defense Secretary 国防部长 (that’s common sense _(:з」∠)_！！！)
4. pursue [pəˈsju:]  vt.继续，从事；追赶，追踪；追求


Soooooo sleepy NOW!!!

I also need to sit for ITELS next year ,otherwise , i am not able to go on university exchange.

i am very nervous about that since i have almost done nothing to enhance my English proficiency

so let's strive hard together!!!

19, Jan. 2012 BBC news  [One piece]  
The Algerian state news agency says at least 12 foreign and Algerian hostages have been killed at a gas plunt[plant] in the desert they[that] came under sage[siege] when Islamist militants lunched[launched] a hostage-taking raid on Wednesday. It says at least 18 militants died. Bridget Kendall reports.

It’s hardly surprising that the Algerian authorities moved so swiftly against the hostage takes[takers] without consulting on the[other] governments. The[Their] military forces are battle-hardened with the experience of fighting an Islamist surgency[insurgency] during a long and bloody civil war in the 1990s. And the Algerian government claimed[claims] it had no alternative—it had to launch an attack to stop the kidnappers fling[fleeing] into the desert with the backup trips[their captives]. Now the question is whether this crisis can be ended peacefully without dangering[endangering] more hostages.  

[RED WORDS] are correct.
Misspellings: launch;
Words misheard:   plant; siege; takers; insurgency; claims; fleeing; endangering;
　 SMALL WORDS: that; other; Their;
Words and phrases need to know:  
1. plant [plɑ:nt] n. 工厂
2. siege [si:dʒ]  n.包围，围困
*** sage  [seidʒ] a.智慧的  n.智者
3. launch  [ˈlɔ:ntʃ] vt.发动，推出；发射 n.发射，下水，投产
4. raid  [reid] vt.／ n.(突然)袭击；突入搜捕；劫掠
5. swiftly [ˈswiftli] ad.迅速地，敏捷地
6. harden  [ˈhɑ:dn] v. (使)变得冷酷
7. hostage taker 挟持人质者
8. insurgency [in'sə:dʒənsi] n.起义, 暴动, 叛
9. flee [fli:] vi.逃走，逃掉 vt.逃离，避开，逃避
*** fling [fliŋ] vt.用力扔；使投身 n.尽情欢乐的一阵
10. captive  [ˈkæptiv] a.被俘虏的，被捕获的 n.俘虏
11. endanger  [inˈdeindʒə] vt.危及，危害

At the moment, many words to me, are just recognized. But I cannot be able to use them—the so-called passive words. That’s the one of the disadvantages of reciting words only from vocabulary books but not from other ways such as reading, listening. [ Although as a matter of fact… I haven't recite vocabulary for a long time =  = ]

it's great to know  that you have insisted in this kind of thing
it's absolutely not a silly thing
indeed, you have motivated me to pick up my poor english again

keep going and strive hard~!!
i will read your post every day XD

17, Jan. 2012 BBC news  [One piece]

Islamic[Islamist] militan[militants] have attacked and occupied a gas facility in the east of Ardurium[Algeria] seizing foreign hostages. The Algerian state news agency says at least two foreign nationals were killed. There’s be[been] confirmation that British, norigin[Norwegian] and Japanese nationals are among them[those] involved. Washington believes US citizens are also being held. Here’s the BBC’s Arab Affairs Editor Sebastian Usher.

We’ve heard from an + [al-Qaeda]-linked group, we can’t confirm 100 per cent either if it is from the group or if that group actually has done what it says, but it says + [that] it has been[is] holding 41 hostages. It says that it’s[its] actually[action] in retaliation for [Algeria's support] for France’s military + [intervention] across the border in Mali. BP + [issued] a statement making clear that it was very difficult for it to get information from there and they[it has] actually confirmed that a part of + [the] building, at least a part of + [the] facility, is occupied. The Algerian army, the Algerian forces, are involved.  

[RED WORDS] are correct.
Misspellings: NONE
Words misheard:
     Islamist; militants; Algeria; Norwegian; al-Qaeda; action; Algeria’s support; intervention; issued;  
　 SMALL WORDS: been; those; that; is; its; it has; the; the;  
Words and phrases need to know:  
1. Islamist  ['izləmait]  n. 回教教徒
2. militant [ˈmilitənt]  a.激进的，好斗的 n.激进分子，斗士
3. al-Qaeda 基地组织
4. hostage  [ˈhɔstidʒ]  n.人质
5. retaliation [riˌtæli'eiʃən] n. 报复, 反击
6. Algeria [æl'dʒiəriə] n. 阿尔及利亚（非洲西北部滨邻地中海的国家）
7. Norwegian [nɔ:'wi:dʒən]  n. 挪威人, 挪威语  adj. 挪威的, 挪威人的, 挪威语的 (Norway: 挪威)


NOT sure of several words, I’ll correct it if there’s answer in putclub.

I will take TEM-8 in several month,I am nervous about that,but I know both of us should take easy.

11, Oct. 2012 BBC news  [One piece]
A former Canadian naval intelligence officer has beated[pleaded] guilty to spying for Russia. Jeffrey Paul Delisle admitted selling sensitive Canadian and Nato intelligence. Sub retenace[Sub-lieutenant] Delisle told investigators that he spied for ideal logical[ideological] reasons and not money. Lee Carter reports from Toronto.

The 41-year-old officer worked to top secret Canadian naval military facilities, and had clearance to intelligence sharing systems linked to other Nato countries like the United States and Britain. He apparently walked into the Russian ambassy[embassy] in Ottawa in 2007 to volunteer his services. The court heard that the case has resulted in surfer[severe] and repoble[irreparable] damage to Canada's relationship with its allies. He is suspected[expected] to be sentenced in January and could receive anything from five years to life in prison.

[RED WORDS] are correct.
Misspellings: embassy;
Words misheard:
        pleaded; Sub-lieutenant; ideological; severe; irreparable; allies; expected;  
　　SMALL WORDS: NONE
Words and phrases need to know:  
1. sub-lieutenant n naval officer next in rank below a lieutenant 海军中尉. (lieutenant [lefˈtenənt] n.陆军中尉；海军上尉)
2. plead [I,T not in passive]law to state in a court of law whether or not you are guilty of a crime e.g.: plead guilty/not guilty/innocent[Henderson pled guilty to burglary.]
3. intelligence [in'telidʒəns]   n.情报, 情报工作, 情报机关
4. ideological [ˌaidiə'lɔdʒikəl] adj. 意识形态的, 思想上的
5. irreparable [i'repərəbl] adj.不能修补的, 不能挽回的
6. ally [ˈælai, əˈlai] pay attention to its pronunciation = =!


Haven’t done dictations for a really long time TAT
As a matter of fact, haven’t practiced English for a long time too. Today’s work really sucks.QAQ
Yet, keep doing it… must and have to. Time’s not enough now, let alone waste it. So, I'm back.

i come here to see you~
good job!
i aman English Major too, it is a shame that i havent done any preparation yet...
shadow, i Will learn from you.

15, Oct. 2012 BBC news  [One piece]
The Austrian skydiver Phillip[Felix] Baumgartner has made an [unprecedented] [leap] from the [edge] of space. Mr Baumgartner stepped out of the capsue[capsule] on the end of the [helium] balloon that had taken him to an altitude of 39 km  He [sped] towards the landing site in New Mexico at more than 1,000km an hour, breaking a high altitude record that had stood since 1960. At a press conference, Baumgartner described his moment a doubt just before jumping.What a period of[appeared at the] time when (I) really thought I'm in trouble because I have many[man-out] push button where I can release a [drogue chute] which push me out of the flat [spin]. But at the same time, I knew that if I push that button, the thing is all over. We are not gonna fly supersonic. And it's hard, when you fall down at that speed, you have to make that decision, you know, somehow we have to make that call, do I push that button and stay alive, or do I fight all my way down and break the speed of sound and after a couple of seconds, I had that feeling, I get down the[it under] control and I did. That's the reason why I broke the speed of sound today.

[RED WORDS] are correct.
Misspellings: capsule;
Words misheard:    
       unprecedented; leap; edge; helium; sped;  appeared at the; man-out; drogue chute; spin; get it under control;
　　SMALL WORDS: NONE
Words and phrases need to know:  
1. skydiver: n. 在空中做造型动作的跳伞运动员。
2. unprecedented: adj. never having happened or existed in the past. E.g.: ①This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale.②unprecedented levels of unemployment 失业率达到的前所未有的严重程度 ③a situation unprecedented in the history of the school 该校自有校史以来未曾出现过的情况.
3. leap: n.& v. 跳跃
4. helium: 氦
5. sped: past tense, past participle of SPEED
6. drogue chute: n. a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly. 减速伞。/// [The word “chute” is just part of “parachutes” — which is exactly the name of my favorite band, Coldplay’s first album! Can’t believe I didn't recognize it!]
7. flat spin: 1. <空>水平螺旋 2. 激动慌乱。E.g.: I've been in a flat spin trying to get everything ready for our holiday. 我一直在惊慌之中尽力为我们的休假作好一切准备。


TOO late to do the analysis today. TMW I will.

So sorry to update so late. = =. Having classes, meetings and interviews, I haven't had enough time to do dictation these days. (Oct. 20, 2012)

14, Oct. 2012 BBC news  [One piece]
Six Mxx[Moroccan] charities ask[have asked] government [there] to reconsider new guidelines that stop foreign families fostering and abandon[abandoned] Mxx[Moroccan] children. The six charities were very list the internet pertation and [have released an internet petition that]poses some tough questions. It asks the authority if the new guideline[’s] compatible with the international and national obligations to put children’s interests first. The charities say 24 babies were abandon[ed] every day in Mxx[Morocco] and with 2 xx[too few] Mxx[Moroccan] families coming forward to foster they want. The child traffic[traffickers] will fill the gaps. The authority is tighten the restrictions after some foreign families call[ed] for the rights to adopt rather than foster, a persive[perceived] threat to the children’s Muslim and Mxx[Moroccan] identity.  

[RED WORDS] are correct.
Misspellings: NONE
Words misheard:    
    Moroccan; Morocco; have asked; there; abandoned; have released an internet petition that; too few; traffickers; perceived;
　SMALL WORDS: NONE
Words and phrases need to know:  
1. Morocco: 摩洛哥（北非国家）[When watching the formula one race Monaco Grand Prix, I were aware of the existence of Morocco. However, still haven’t remember it, until now.]
2. Petition: formal written request, esp one signed by many people appealing to sb in authority. 请愿书。
3. Trafficker: someone who buys and sells illegal goods, especially drugs
4. Perceive: become aware of (sb/sth); notice; observe 意识到, 注意到, 观察到（某人[某事物]）

It seems that answers in putclub forum is not correct as well. QAQ

    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 takes me 15 to 20 mins overall. Besides, I'm not good at scientific articles and vocabularies. But after reading your advice, I realize that scientific things do won't help me so much, at least less than current news. And I'm weak at political things as well. Although I've used BBC as my extensive listening material, time is really limited for that.
    Thus, I'll use NPR, BBC (BWS) as my intensive listening material from now on. If I cannot handle NPR news, I'll turn to VOA. And if possible, I'll try some CNN.
    Thanks again for your kindness and great suggestions!! : )

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.  )

Just know that you are an English major student.
I thought you were a high school student.

(July 11, 2012) Northern Lights Make Noise, Too
    Interesting sound. An old of [I would have] guessed a Wild West performer was practicing with a bowl wheap wall [bullwhip while] also vancuming [vacuuming]. But no. That sound is barely [apparently] produced by the aworld borialice [aurora borealis], the northern lights.
    Since 2000 a research [researchers] at Finland’s Otto [Aalto] University have been collecting audios [audio as] part of what’s called the Aworldly [Auroral] Acustics [Acoustics] project. Folk tells [tales] have long held that the lights also produce out [odd] sounds, but the claims were hard to prove. And some researchers thought that any noises produced by the energetic particles [that] calls [cause] the light show would be far too high in the sky to be heard on the ground.
    But the latest results indicate that at least some sounds are produced very close to the ground. A setup of three ground-based microphones allowed researchers to estimate that the sounds occur perhaps just 70 meters up. The results were just presented at the International Congress on Sound and liberation [Vibration] in Pheonis [Vilnius], Slyservenia [Lithuania].
    More information about the sounds of the northern lights could lead to a more complete understanding of the phenomena [phenomenon]. So if you see in the world [an aurora], keep your ears open.

[RED WORDS] are correct
Misspellings:
    acoustics;  
Words misheard:
    I would have; bullwhip while; vacuuming; apparently; aurora borealis; researchers; audio as; auroral; tales; odd; cause; vibration; phenomenon; an aurora
   SMALL WORDS: that;
(Among them, mistakes like “acoustics” “researchers” “tales” “that cause” “phenomenon” should have been avoided. )
Words and phrases need to know:
1. Wild West: n. （美国初期的）西大荒，西部蛮荒地区。The western part of the US in the 19th century - used especially when referring to the time before there were many laws there.
2. bullwhip: n. 生皮制长鞭，牛鞭。
3. vacuuming: ①n. 真空处理 ②动词vacuum的现在分词。vacuum: ①n.真空, 真空吸尘器, 空白 ②adj.产生(利用)真空的 ③v.用吸尘器打扫。
4. aurora: n. 曙光，极光 (Although once I listened to Angela Chang’s album Aurora, I don’t familiar with its pronunciation. Besides, it was many years ago.)
5. borealis: a. 北的。aurora borealis: 北极光。
6. particle: n.颗粒, 微粒, 极小量, 质点, 粒子, [语]小品词
7. vibration: n. 震动，颤动。
8. Aalto University: 阿尔托大学（2010）芬兰三所大学合并而建立而成; Vilnius: 维尔纽斯（立陶宛共和国首都）; Lithuania: 立陶宛（位于欧洲东北部）。

Good girl！

May I know how much time do you spend on English everyday?

(July 10, 2012 60-Second Science) Stand Up Now To Stick Around Later
    Here's news you don't want to hear sitting down. Okay, are you standing up? Cutting down [on] the amount of time spent sitting might add years to average life expangency [expectancy]. So since report and the journal BMG open [says a report in the journal BMJ Open].
    Office jobs, long commutes, and catching up on TV shows—so many aspects of modern life can spare [conspire] to make us satentary [sedentary]. But this comfortable lifestyle takes a toll on our collective health. Obesity, diabeves [diabetes] and xxx [metabolic syndrome] are surgeon [surging]. Even people, you’re [your] humble host included, you [who] exercise regularly spend much of the workday plentied [planted] in the [a] chair in front of the computer. And very [various] studies suggest that these long structures [stretches] of being satentary [sedentary] have deleterious [deleterious] effects on our health, even if we're physically active at other times.
    The new report reviewed the scientific literature and found that if people could somehow manage to sit for a total of just three hours a day or less, it could add two years to the average U.S. life span. In forward, they have [Info worthy of a] standing avation [ovation].

[RED WORDS] are correct.
Misspellings:
   sedentary;
Words misheard:
    expectancy; says a report in the journal BMJ Open; conspire; diabetes; metabolic syndrome; surging; planted; various; stretches; deleterious; info worthy of; ovation.
   SMALL WORDS: on; your; who; a;  
Words and phrases need to know:
1. life expectancy: 预期寿命。The length of time that a living thing, especially a human being, is likely to live. e.g.: Life expectancy in Europe has increased greatly in the 20th century.
2. commute: [HERE] n. 乘车上下班
3. conspire: ①（事情）似乎同时发生对某人/某事物不利。events that conspired to bring about his downfall 导致他垮台的种种事件同时发生 ②密谋。e.g.: All six men admitted conspiring to steal cars.
4. sedentary: a. 久坐的，固定不动的。
5. toll: [HERE] n. a very bad effect that something has on something or someone over a long period of time. e.g.: a heavy toll on the environment
6. collective: a. 集体的，共同的。n. 团体，集体。
7. diabetes: 糖尿病。
8. metabolic: a. 新陈代谢的。
9. syndrome: n. 综合症状；一系列表现（事件等）
10. surge: vi./n. 蜂拥而出，洋溢，汹涌，激增。 [HERE] to suddenly increase= shoot up. e.g.: Oil prices surged.
11. plant: [HERE] v. (infml 口) position (oneself) 使（自己）处於某一位置。e.g.: plant oneself in a chair in front of the fire 坐到炉前的椅子上。
12. stretch: [HERE] n. a continuous period of time. e.g.: She doesn't leave the house for long stretches of time. [← is her name Emily? LOL]
13. deleterious: a. damaging or harmful. e.g.: the deleterious effects of smoking
14. info: is short for “information”.
15. standing ovation: 起立鼓掌。e.g.: The singer got a ten-minute standing ovation. 观众起立向那位歌手鼓掌达十分钟。ovation: n. 热烈欢迎，热烈的鼓掌。

    Honestly, I didn’t do it carefully enough. I don’t feel good today, perhaps lack of sleep or something. Except for swimming this afternoon, I’ve been awfully inefficient for a whole day…!!! π-π  Besides, the humorous tone at last made me smile for a while. : )

Thanks for your advice! It's so nice of you. : )
Check after dictation is really useful and necessary, which I haven't done well so far. My major problem is that even if I know some words don't make sense, I cannot recognize the correct words. Perhaps it's the lack of vocabulary and practice? Maybe I should listen to them more after dictation.