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Hi, I'm A.J. Hoag, the author of Effortless English, Learn to Speak English, Like a Native.

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It's a good time of year to do that. Starting a new year soon, commit. You've got to commit to achieve your highest goals. Your vision for your English speaking, speaking like a native speaker, speaking with great pronunciation, fluency, effortless speaking, thinking in English, confidence when speaking English, all of those.

Of course, first you have to decide to do it, your goal, your vision.

But then you need to train. You've got to train like an athlete, right? Like your favorite athlete or sports team even.

You've got to train each day. You've got to commit to doing that work, that training every day, every week, every month, every year.

That's how you achieve it, so it's a good time to commit to my VIP program.

That's my training program, one of my training programs,

to help you achieve those exact English goals.

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Speaking of New Year, we're only a couple days away.

We're right at the end of the year.

Now there's this one week between Christmas and New Year's Day, typically in in America, maybe a lot of Western countries, maybe a lot of Western countries, maybe a lot of countries in general, but it's kind of a slow week. It's typically a week of not working, it's typically a week of spending time with family.

Kind of in America, a lot of people just lay around

and watch football games,

play with their kids

Talk to their extended family think about the past year and get ready for the new year. And then after New Year's day, that's when, right, that's the time to get back to work.

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