Hello and welcome to the intermediate article for New Year's resolutions.

This is a little bit easier version of the original article.

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Listen to this article several times.

Then you might want to read it,

look at the word list, make sure you know the vocabulary,

learn it, review it often.

Then listen again, listen, listen, listen.

You should repeat this lesson many times

until it's easy, until it's automatic,

until the sentences are stuck in your head and you remember them instantly without thinking.

Okay, so over-learn this material, over-learn this article,

learn it too much more than you think you need to.

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New Year's resolutions.

So have you made your New Year's resolutions?

What are your goals for 2007?

Do you have written resolutions or just a vague plan? The tradition of New Year's resolutions started in 153 BC.

Janice was an imaginary king and god of Rome.

Janus had two faces.

He could look back on past events

and forward to the future. Janus became the symbol for the new year.

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