025: New Year's Resolutions
Conversation & Pronunciation: Learn English with The Rachel's English Podcast
Rachel's English
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? Today we discuss the kinds of resolutions we make, and discuss tips on how to keep them. Learn what a SMART goal is, and learn the idioms and interesting vocabulary words we use when speaking: ‘to be on to something’, ‘flip on its head’, ‘just in the nick of time’, ‘down to the wire’, ‘went by the wayside’, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Rachel's English podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Rachel and this podcast is made especially for non-native speakers, where we try to reveal the idioms, |
| 0:15.0 | phrasal verbs, and interesting vocabulary words that Americans use in everyday conversational English. |
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| 0:32.3 | This week, it is the final podcast of 2017, the final week. |
| 0:37.8 | And we're talking about New Year's resolutions, |
| 0:41.3 | goals that you make for yourself to achieve in the upcoming year. |
| 0:46.2 | So I'm sitting down with my husband, David, |
| 0:49.0 | and we're talking about any New Year's resolutions that we are making this year. |
| 0:57.6 | Let's get started. New Year's resolutions that we are making this year. Let's get started. New Year's resolutions. |
| 1:04.7 | David, do you make them? I do make them almost every year. Do you really? Yeah, I don't keep them, |
| 1:08.3 | but I make them. I feel like you also don't tell them because I didn't know that you've made New Year's resolutions. Well, then maybe I haven't in the last three or four years. Okay. But previously, you would say you have made them. I feel like I often have in my adult life. Okay. And as a kid as well? No, I don't think so. I think it was more maybe mid-20s to mid-30s. How old was that when we met? |
| 1:28.1 | Geez, I don't know. |
| 1:29.7 | Great. |
| 1:30.2 | 30-something. |
| 1:32.3 | Upper 30s. |
| 1:34.2 | So, okay, so you've been making New Year's resolutions. What are you resolving to do? |
| 1:40.1 | I feel like there have been some common themes for me. |
| 1:47.2 | Things like exercise on a regular basis, |
| 1:51.1 | or do daily meditation practice. |
| 1:57.3 | So there are things that you already did, but your goal was for more consistency. |
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