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today's topic is
how to set achievable language goals and
resolutions
your new year's resolution solution so
for those of you that have set a
language goal for 2019
what is it leave a comment and tell me
and
for those of you that laugh at new
year's resolutions because they just
don't work
this is for you stick around today
you're going to learn
number one the top three reasons why
language goals fail
and number two what you can do to
succeed with your resolution
in other words how to set successful
language goals
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let's jump into today's topic how to set
achievable language goals and
resolutions
and speaking of new year's resolutions
it's almost like a joke nowadays
isn't it you set a resolution you try to
do it in january
by february there's no progress and
doing it isn't fun anymore
you quit and put it off until many years
later when you start regretting all the
things you've never done
so what's the problem with setting
resolutions and why do we keep failing
let's jump into part one the top three
reasons why language goals fail
first of all regardless of what most
people say setting resolutions or goals
is a good thing you have to know where
you're going and what you want to
achieve
right otherwise you'd spend days months
years watching youtube
and have nothing to show for all the
time you put in
but the problem with most resolutions is
it's usually something like
i want to master chinese i want to lose
weight i want to be fluent in japanese
people set very big vague goals and
that's the first reason why resolutions
fail
resolutions fail because they are
non-specific and unmeasurable
what do i mean by that take a goal like
i want to be fluent in english korean or
japanese this year
the problem is that's a very vague goal
right
what do you mean by fluent and how can
you measure how much progress you need
to
be fluent in the language you can't it
doesn't tell you anything about how much
japanese you should learn today
tomorrow or how many minutes of japanese
to speak by month 1
by month 2 what resources to use and
when to stop and take a rest
so again the first reason is resolutions
fail
because they are non-specific and
unmeasurable
the second reason is new year's
resolutions fail because they're
unrealistic
and you might say but isn't it good to
aim for the stars and set huge
goals sure it's not bad to want to go
far
but if you say i want to be fluent by
september
and you just started learning a language
today it's not impossible
but are you ready to commit yourself to
nothing but language learning
six to eight hours a day non-stop if not
you need to be a little more realistic
about your goals
the third reason is resolutions fail
because there's no action plan
the problem is you'll still fail even
with a specific and realistic goal
if you don't know when and how you're
going to do it
for example when will you study how long
will you study for every day
and how will you study so resolutions
fail for three reasons
one they're non-specific and
unmeasurable
two they're unrealistic and three
there's no action plan
now how do you set new year's
resolutions and actually succeed
your goal should be one specific and
measurable
two realistic and three have an action
plan
so the complete opposite of the mistakes
most learners usually make
and there are two more rules four you
need to set a deadline
and five break down your yearly goal
into smaller monthly goals
so how would this work let's say my new
year's resolution is to have a 30-minute
conversation in japanese by december
31st
and not i want to learn japanese one day
hopefully
already you can see that it's one
specific and measurable
you can measure 30 minutes right two
it's realistic
i'm aiming for 30 minutes not fluency
there's a clear deadline
december 31st before we get into the
action plan
there's another important part i break
my resolution down into smaller monthly
goals
so let's say my goal is to speak two
minutes of japanese conversation by
january 31st
2019 again it's small and measurable
just two minutes i can time myself and
see how far along i am
there's a clear deadline it's realistic
i'm not looking to master the whole
language
just reach the two conversation mark now
what about your action plan for that you
just need to answer these questions
when will you study how long will you
study every day
where do you plan to study how will you
study
what's your study schedule this is the
most important part because this tells
you when
and how to study so when will you study
i'll study at 9 pm on weekdays so 5 days
a week
how long will you study every day i'll
study for 15
minutes where do you plan to study i'll
study at home
in the living room on my computer how
will you study
i'll listen to one or two lessons a day
to fill up the 15 minutes
what's your study schedule monday
through friday for 15 minutes a day
this makes a lot more sense now doesn't
it instead of saying
hopefully i'll learn that language
someday and never taking action on your
goals
by setting these small measurable goals
you know what you need to do
okay let's recap to set successful
language goals
your goals should be one specific and
measurable
two realistic three have an action plan
four a deadline and five be broken down
into small
monthly goals so instead of saying i
want to be fluent in 2019
try i want to speak 30 minutes of
conversation
by december 31st 2019. and then
go even smaller and set a small monthly
goal
so everyone it's your turn leave a
comment and tell me what's your small
measurable monthly goal and what's the
deadline
here are some examples you can steal for
yourself learn 100 words in one month
speak one minute of your target language
in a month or
do 20 audio lessons in one month
deadline
january 31st now speaking of lessons
here are this month's new lessons and
resources
first the ultimate listening video
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if you want a text in the language
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you'll learn how to say lol and other
words in your target language
and finally the how to express quantity
vocab list
where you learn how to say if there's a
lot a few or
a little bit of something to get these
free lessons and resources
just click the link in the description
below
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begin play hi alicia my name is ahmed
and i'm from jomo in kashmir india hi
amir
i think you might know that the jammu
and kashmir is the place called
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would
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to host to you
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i want to explore the world being a
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i want to know about the different
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make a lot of friends and have
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i'm loving this english101.com cool and
this is a
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awesome that was a really nice message
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this one play hello there hi how you
doing
hi i'm andy hi i'm from indonesia oh
learning english is one of the things
that i've been doing since january 2015.
whoa thank god i can make this learning
english
as a routine you know what
i believe having prophecy and see in
english
will provide me a lot of opportunities
as a matter of fact
i'd really love to get a job in one
native english speaker countries oh cool
and also well this is kind of
embarrassing
but somehow i need to put it out
i want to be a professional youtuber
someday i'm willing to use english as a
main language on my youtube videos
oh be an english-speaking youtuber
that's all i can tell right now
have a nice day cool goodbye bye thank
you
that was an interesting message he
sounds like a really super confident
person and he wants to be like an
english-speaking youtuber like i think
he has the confidence part for sure
for sure that's awesome thank you thanks
for sharing your goal too
nice all right on to the next one
hi asian hi my name is ariel and i'm
from china
um i'm really grateful that i found you
at
englishclass101.com on youtube about one
year ago
you've helped me so much on my english
especially on vocabulary and
grammar um i've been learning english
for a really long time
for the purpose of passing different
tests in order to
enter a good university
but i never tried to improve my
speaking skills before
because the task doesn't have a
requirement of
speaking all right but after i entered
the university
i um there are so many foreign students
around me and i want to communicate with
them
so i worked
really hard on my uh spoken english
yes and one day i want to study abroad
so um i have to try my best to improve
my english in the future cool cool that
was awesome
yeah so never really practicing speaking
because tests don't often require like
any kind of speaking
exam but yeah having the experience of
studying with like
university students from other countries
motivated her so that's really cool
thanks for that message and good luck
continuing to improve your speaking
skills that's cool
okay let's go to the next one
play hello alicia how are you my name is
arjun singh
and i am from india but now i live in
uae
and i have been living in ua since 2016
and i speak english because i am fond of
speaking english
and i have been speaking english since
many years and
nowadays i am watching your videos and
learning
many things from your videos so firstly
thanks to you and
secondly your teaching method is really
and really
awesome and my so many uh doubts
have been cleared through your videos
what is that what are the differences
among all whole and
what are the differences between
stomach tummy and belly
please keep making the videos that is
just because of you and
please providing us good english thank
you very much
cool thank you so much for this message
i'm so happy that there were like
specific
points that like were cleared up through
the videos that is awesome so thank you
so much for that that was really really
cool
okay onward i think this is a video
hello video person
it's waiting hi alicia hi hello my dear
friends
uh my name is thomas and i'm from india
i would really like to thank you and
english for 101
for being such a great guy
who helped me a lot that's hearing i
could score in imts
nice
today i'm here to speak about myself
as i mentioned earlier my name is steven
thomas
currently i'm working as an entry level
employee
okay at coordination private limited and
i'm working as a customer relations
executive
my hobbies are uh three books
playing cricket and i would also
love to sing a pop song about
mini pop stars uh
my family can show my parents and
sibling cool cool nice yeah that was
cool we don't get a lot of video
uh submissions but this one was really
cool and like he spoke so clearly and
like he had like such a cheerful way of
communicating so that's cool
thank you very much for sending this
awesome all right
i'll go back to the next one
play
hello everybody hi i am lex rubicon
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ah excuse my english i only start
learning it recently okay uh
i am absolutely beginner
to then of
english language um i'm from
colombia my native language is
spanish okay spanish speaker from
colombia super beginning i want to
learn english
because it's important
but for my career
and interaction with
angles are hung culture thank you bye
bye
thank you that's cool yeah so that's
awesome he said you know i'm a
like absolute beginner and yet he took
the time to prepare this message so
thanks so much and good luck with your
continued studies that's awesome
okay i'll go to the last one for this
month
hi alicia hi how's it going good i'm
marcelo
i'm from brazil i've learned english for
two years and i've learned
a lot with your site english class
1l.com
i need to improve my speaking skills i'm
listen a lot and
work hard to get fluent in english yeah
so another person talking about
like working hard to improve speaking
skills i think that's something
lots of people are probably working on
so i hope that
you all continue and i hope that
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their goals thank you all
so much for sending these in this like
this month actually that's really really
cool so
it's so cool to actually see and hear
from you guys that's awesome so
thanks so much this month and i hope to
see some more from you guys next month
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