The sheet of paper you are writing the letter on

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CSHY

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"The sheet of paper you are writing the letter on."

Please click HERE to listen and correct my pronunciation, or point out anything where it is unnatural.
 
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"The sheet of paper you are writing the letter on."

Please click HERE to listen and correct to my pronunciation, or then point out anything where it is unnatural or incorrect.
Make sure you put the sentence in your main post as well as in your title. Note my other corrections to your second sentence. Don't make the entire sentence the hyperlink - choose one word and link through that. I've added "HERE" and made that the link.
 

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I've listened to the recording. It's understandable, although it's difficult to know if I would have completely understood it if you hadn't already told us what you were saying.

Four things:
1) Be really careful with the word "sheet". If you don't lengthen the "ee" enough, it can sound like the rude word "shit".
2) I'm not sure if you meant to contract "you are", into "you're" but the recording sounds like the contraction. However, you wrote "you are". Make sure that your recordings exactly match the transcription.
4) The "t" in "sheet", the "t" in "writing" and the "tt" in "letter" sound like "d", "d" and "dd". I don't know if you're doing this on purpose. It's a feature of some dialects but it's not necessary to emulate it. To clarify, it sounds like you're saying "The sheed of paper you're riding the ledder on".
 

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You need more space between all your words. Say each word separately and pause between them. Trust me.
 

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You need more space between all your words. Say each word separately and pause between them. Trust me.
That's not going to result in natural-sounding English. We just don't talk like that. For individual words that a learner struggles with, I entirely support enunciating them slowly and carefully until they're comfortable with them.
 
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