Learn the Top 10 New Year's Resolutions in English

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named Dat Phan. There he is, Dat Phan!

Hi, everybody! Welcome back to Top Words!

My name is Alisha, and today we're gonna

be talking about 10 phrases that are

related to New Year's resolution. So a

new year's resolution, resolution is a

special word for goal, the goals that we

set for the new year, what we want to

achieve in one year. So if you set some

goals for yourself in January, maybe you

can think about how you're progressing

towards those goals now, as you watch

this video. So let's start!

Drink less

The first resolution is drink less.

So maybe especially during the holiday

season, maybe you drink a lot of wine, you

drink a lot of beer, you go to a lot of

parties with your friends, maybe one of

your resolutions is to drink less.

In a sentence,

one of my new year's resolutions is to drink less.

Eat healthy

is probably a resolution for many people, in

connection with some related goals, and

you gain a lot of weight, or maybe your

body doesn't feel so good, so you decide

I want to eat healthy this year.

Exercise regularly, The next one is

exercised regularly. Exercise regularly

is a huge one for many people as a new

year's resolution. Exercise regularly,

again, especially following the holidays,

eating a lot, drinking a lot, maybe going

to a lot of parties, you gain some weight

and you want to exercise. This is

especially good in winter months if you

live in a place where it's cold and dark

in January and February, it can be a way to

help you feel energetic and to keep up

your energy levels throughout the winter

months. So in a sentence, I really want to

exercise regularly this year.

Learn something new

so whether it's a

language, like, English, maybe you decided

to practice English this year, or it's a

new hobby, like cooking, or dance, or

swimming, or sports, whatever, photography,

I don't know, you want to learn something

new. If it were me, I would probably

specifically say I'm going to learn (bla),

I'm going to learn (hobby) this year, or

maybe I would say I'm going to start

taking lessons in this hobby this year,

that would be a way to kind of motivate

myself to

do that. I've been thinking about taking

calligraphy lessons, yeah, because my

handwritten Kanji is very bad.

Lose weight

ok, the next one, this is probably the

biggest, most popular, most common new

year's resolution, it is lose weight. Lose

weight, wanting to be a thinner, slimmer,

trimmer, sexier version of yourself. Part

of losing weight is eating healthy,

exercising regularly, drinking less, and

so on. So in a sentence, this year one of

my resolutions is to lose weight.

Quit smoking. This is a very clear goal

that many people have, I think. Quit

smoking many people would like to stop a

bad habit or to stop a vice, so they

decide to, they want to quit smoking in

that year. My brother says he's going to

quit smoking this year. It's one of his new

year's resolutions. My brother doesn't smoke.

Read more. The next resolution is to read

more.

I don't know, I suppose this could be

different from person to person, it could

mean reading the news more, it could mean

reading more books, it could mean

studying more, perhaps? But in general

just getting new knowledge, more often. So

in a sentence, this year one of my

resolutions is to read more.

Save money. Everybody probably tries to

do this as much as possible, it can be

difficult, but save money. So, for you know

for your travels, for self-improvement,

for whatever it is that you'd like to

save money for. A common resolution is to

save money. So this year, let's see, one of

my resolutions is to save money so that

I can travel this summer. Spend more time

with family the next resolution is to

spend more time with family. It can be

easy to move away from your family and

not talk to them very much,

maybe you lose touch over time, but one

common resolution is to spend more time

with family, so maybe this means calling

your family more, meeting your family

more, having a family reunion,

there are a lot of different ways that

you can find time. So in a sentence,

this year I'm going to spend more time

with my family, it's so important.

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next resolution is to study English at

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you're continuing your English Studies, I

suppose that's why you're watching this

video, and watching this channel. But a

common resolution and is to study

something more, so maybe for you studying

English or studying another language is

a resolution, is a goal for you, for the

new year.

Give yourself some time to review the

material too. So those are a few common

new year's resolutions, I hope that you

have some new year's resolutions and

that you're working towards your new

year's resolutions. If you have a

resolution you would like to share,

please leave it in a comment, and we can

compare. Thanks very much for watching

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