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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
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 nonspecific 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 nonspecific 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've 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 nonspecific 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 goals should be one specific and measurable too
realistic and three have an action plan so the complete opposite of the mistakes
most learners usually make and there are two more rules for you need to set a
deadline and 5 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 - 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-minute 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
everyday 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 9:00 p.m. on weekdays so five days a
week how long will you study everyday 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 to
realistic 3 have an action plan for a deadline and 5 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 deadlines January 31st
now speaking of lessons
here are this month's new lessons and resources first the ultimate listening
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common texting slang word list if you want to text in the language you're
learning you'll love this 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
I'll write everyone in the last monthly review we asked you to submit a video or
audio file of yourself speaking the language introducing yourself in the
language so thank you to all of you that sent in submissions you've all received
a premium plus subscription as a reward now let's take a look at some of the
videos
okay I'm gonna play the submissions that we received this month I'm very excited
begin play hi Alicia my name is Ahmed and I'm from Jammu and Kashmir India hi
I'm Ana I think you might know that the Jammu and Kashmir is the place called
the paradise on earth and I wish you would whiz it here someday and I will be
happy to host you and why I'm learning English is just because I want to make
new friends I want to explore the world being a global citizen I want to know
about the different cultures know about the different people make a lot of
friends and how better career opportunities and I'm loving this
English 101 calm and this is a very good initiative for learners like us who
can't afford to just go like for the coaching classes or something like that
I have been learning from home from a lot of time and thank you thank you for
everything I thank everyone there thanks a lot
awesome that was a really nice message about being a global citizen and like
the importance of having like something online where anybody can learn so that
was really cool thank you so much for that message that was great
all right I'm gonna go to the next one this one Leigh 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 proficiency in English will provide me a lot of opportunities as a
matter of fact I'd really love to get a job in one a native English speaker
country oh cool and also well this is kind of
embarrassing but somehow I need to play it out I want to be a professional
youtuber someday really think to use English as a main language and my
youtube videos youtuber that's all I can tell right now have a nice day good 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 is the confidence part for sure for sure that's awesome thank you thanks
for sharing your goal - nice all right on to the next one hi Aisha hi my name
is a real errand from China oh I'm really grateful that I found you an
English class 101.com on YouTube about a 1 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 go to university but I never try to improve my
speaking skills before because the Thais doesn't have a requirement of speaking
all right after I enter the university I there are so many foreign students
around me and I want to communicate so I worked really hard on my spoken
English and one day I want to study abroad so I have to try my best to
improve my English in the future cool cool that's 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 you way 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 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 many videos that is just because of you and please
providing us mood 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
ok onward I think this is a video hello video person
it's waiting hallelujah hello my dear friends my name
is Thiago Thomas and I'm from India I would really like to thank you
and his former one Oh such a great guy who helped me a lot cause hearing Tiger
scoring I am serious nice we are here to speak about myself
as I mentioned earlier my name is Tina Thomas currently I'm working as an entry
level employee ok Pournami fruition private temperature and I'm working as a
customer relation excavator mm-hmm my hobbies are reading books playing
cricket and I would also love to think also about mini pop stars my family
consists of my parents and siblings cool cool nice yeah that's cool we don't get
a lot of video submissions but this one was really cool I'd 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 like free gum ah excuse my English I only start
learning it rationally okay I am absolutely beginner an English language
I from Colombia my native languages punished okay I want
to learn English because he's important but for my career and interaction with
angles a home culture mm-hmm 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 Hey hi Alicia hi how's it going good hi
Marcelo I'm from Brazil I've learned English for two years and I've learned a
lot with your side English class 1 over N dot-com thank you I need to improve my
speaking skills I'm leasing a lot and worked 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 don't that everybody can continue working towards
their goals thank you all so much for sending these in this week 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 cool
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