Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Brando Calderon

Puente. Hi, Brando. Brando asked, hi Alicia. How do we use the expression, here's to? For example,

here's to a good year. Ah, okay, interesting question. We usually use this

here's two in like congratulations situations, like congratulatory situations, or maybe like an

anniversary situations, kind of special occasions, maybe like a birthday. So the theme here with all

of these is like you're usually celebrating something.

And there's usually a noun phrase that comes at the end of this expression. So you might hear

expressions like here's to a good year or here's to a healthy and happy relationship or here's to

a healthy and happy marriage for you or here's to a great year for you. Happy

birthday. So we use these expressions when we're celebrating someone else. So they're usually

an important life milestones. Maybe it's a new job. You might say here's to a great position

at this new company or here's hoping you might also hear that as well. So these kinds of expressions

are usually used in these very like limited like congratulatory situations and they tend to sound

a little bit formal but also very nice. So like if my friend said to me like here's to a good

year for you at my birthday party, I would feel that that was very nice. It's a little bit

polite, a little bit formal, but I would feel happy about that. It's a very nice expression.

So it is more on the polite side, but it's also very appreciated because these are kind of

special occasions for each of us. So here's two, plus a congratulatory noun phrase, like a good year or a happy and healthy marriage

or a great new position or something like that if it's a new job.

So follow it with a noun phrase like that and you're good to go.

So you can now congratulate very, very fluently, surely.

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