How to make a GOOD English New Years Resolution Become Fluent in 2017
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm happy new year happy 2017
should you make any resolutions this
year let’s talk about it a new year’s
resolution comes from the word resolve
resolve i resolve to change my habits
this year resolve means i plan seriously
plan on doing something over the next
year I resolve I promise when we make a
promise to ourselves for a whole year
that’s a pretty big deal I think new
year’s resolutions have a bad stereotype
because it’s hard to keep them up it’s
hard to do them for an entire year so I
want to present a couple ideas for you
because I know you want to improve your
English skills this year
it’s a wonderful goal and I want to help
you make that happen so let’s talk about
a couple ways that you can realistically
resolve to improve your English this
year the first way to make a resolution
for English this year is to think about
the past year if you learned a lot over
the past year why stop continue on the
same path if you found a good method you
enjoyed a series of videos or podcasts
or a course and it has really helped you
why stop keep going with that that’s the
simplest resolution I resolve to do the
same thing as last year if you’re making
a lot of progress keep going this second
way to make a new year’s resolution for
English is to choose something simple
that you can definitely do throughout
the year an example of this might be I
know that I have to drive for 20 minutes
to go to work every day so this year
I resolve for 20 minutes when I’m
driving to work I will listen to an
English podcast this is really simple
but you’re using your free time to learn
English it’s not I will listen to this
specific podcast every day but when you
get in the car you’ll think oh yes I had
a resolution I wanted to listen to an
English podcast in the car so this is a
good reminder something’s simple that
you can do over the next year it’s not
all the time non-stop but a specific
thing that you can do the third and
final method for making New Year’s
resolutions for English is for those of
you who feel a little bit hesitant about
making a resolution for the entire year
sometimes I feel like that too I like
short term resolutions this month I will
do this next month I’ll think about it
at the end of this month I’ll decide
what I’m gonna do for the next month so
this is the third method make a one
month resolution it seems short but in
reality it might be more realistic for
you each month might be different in
your life you might have a lot of
changes a lot of things going on so it
might be more realistic for you to make
a one month resolution in January this
year I’m gonna watch a YouTube video in
English when I get home from work every
day great that’s five minutes of English
everyday it’s not much but it’s a great
habit every day you’ll do that for one
month and then at the end of January you
can say to yourself hmm how did it go
was it something that actually helped me
should I continue this should I change
to something different for February this
short-term resolution can be really
helpful for people who aren’t sure
what’s gonna happen over the next year
or you like
a lot of change no problem I hope that
these three resolution styles are useful
for you now I have a question that I
want to ask you are you gonna make an
English New Year’s resolution and if you
are share it with us in the comments
below tell us what you plan to do for
the next month or for the next year what
do you plan to do we can get some ideas
from each other maybe you can get
inspiration when you see someone else’s
comment when you see their resolution
check out other comments and I’m so glad
that you’re learning with me in 2017 see
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