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How to Give a Toast in English.

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If you are attending dinners, parties, New Year celebrations or work events, what if someone asks you to give a toast?

Today we'll give you a three-step plan to give a great toast in English.

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Hey Jessica, happy holidays. We are into mid-December now I can't believe it yes

I'm so exciting I love the holidays this is my favorite time of year, hands down. I get so excited about Christmas.

I mean, James and I, we have so many Christmas traditions already. Like, there's this thing, I don't know if you know about it but you could

go on the NORAD website and you could follow Santa's progress around the world

and they have like this map like this interactive map that you like look out with kids and you're like oh he's in Peru

That's like it's cool. That's really cool. That's really cool. I love it. Yeah, do you so do you prefer Christmas over

Thanksgiving then? Oh yeah by far because I love Christmas and we're not like

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