A Goal for 2012: Learning English

04 January 2012

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Did you make a New Year's resolution? Some of you shared your goals at the VOA Learning English page on Facebook. And, no surprise, many of you said at least one of your goals for twenty-twelve is to speak English better. Daniel Kwon even went so far as to declare:

I'm definitely going to try to study English at least an hour a day.

Jose Antonio Velarde says:

My first resolution is to speak English as fluently as my Spanish.

And Tuti Riel says:

My New Year's resolution is to be able to speak English and Mandarin fluently, and be a better person.

Juwita Zulmi says she wants to improve her English and get a scholarship to study overseas. Another goal for twenty-twelve: a new boyfriend.

Derly Johanna Barreto has these two resolutions

: to speak English fluently and to get a job.

Jiseon Kim also has two goals:

to lose weight and improve speaking English.

And Katie Chekalina has these resolutions:

Don't eat meat. I'll take it easy. Then, to learn Spanish or Italian, and find my real love. The last ones will be the most difficult,

she thinks

.

Rafa Mtz's main goal is finishing high school and getting into a university. Lola Wazqito Oktobrata says:

I am going to get married and finish my undergraduate study with good results.