Beginners 2: Resolutions

Hola a todos y bienvenidos a spanishobsessed this is our beginner podcast 2, estoy con Lis, hola Lis [Hi everyone and welcome to Spanish Obsessed… I’m with Lis, Hi Lis]

Muy bien gracias, today we coming to the end of the year 2012 and starting 2013, in England when we finish our year as you all know we a lot of people come up with new year´s resolutions and I’ve certainly thought of a few, I’m sure Lis has a few as well, we are going to talk about that later, I was wondering in Colombia is there a custom of resolutions for the new year?

Ok we have resolutions and in Colombia they have wishes.

So, I have done a little bit of research and out of curiosity I wanted to see what the most popular resolutions were, so thanks to time.com we have the 10 most popular resolutions. So I wonder if you can guess what they are, so number ten, what is it Lis, in Spanish?

Again?

and what does that mean?

Ok bajar de peso, and how do you say to get fit

Ok, so a popular resolution, bajar de peso y ponerse en forma. Lose weight and get fit, do you want to do that?

What’s resolution number 9, the ninth most popular?

Again

Ok and what does that mean?

Quit smoking, yes, so very popular one there, to quit smoking, dejar de fumar. Quiero dejar de fumar. I want to quit smoking, do you want to quit smoking, ¿quieres dejar de fumar? 

So what’s resolution number 8?

Cool! how do you say that again?

Yo quiero aprender a bailar tango, so aprender is learn, algo

Nuevo

Yeah, aprender algo nuevo , great, so Lis wants to learn tango, what do you want to learn? What’s resolution number 7?

What does it mean?

Yes, so it means get out of debt, salir de la deuda, y save money ahorrar dinero, very popular one especially in Spain I imagine, with the crisis.

Ok what about resolution number 6, the 6th most popular?

Again

Comer más sano, so eat healthier y hacer una dieta and go on a diet or start a diet y tú Lis ¿quieres comer mas sano? [Do you want to eat more healthily?]

Y ¿quieres hacer una dieta? [And do you want to go on a diet?]

I don’t think so, right, what about number 6th no the 5th most popular resolution?

What does it mean?

And how do you say it again?

Pasar más tiempo con la familia, con tu familia

So pasar spend more time or compartir; share more time, that’s nice, very good one. What about number 4

And what does that mean?

So viajar is travel, a sitios nuevos to new place, ¿y Lis dónde quieres viajar? [Lis, where do you want to travel?]

Lots of places

And number 3, what is the third most popular resolution?

And what does that mean?

Be less streessed, yes I think this is very important for people in England, who are always very stressed, it’s very important to , estar menos estresados and this is a good one because if you are a man you say estresado, with an o at the end if you are women estresada so it’s an adjective which changes, so Lis ¿quieres estar menos estresada? [Do you want to be less stressed?]

Muy bien, and the second most popular resolution

And what does it mean?

So be an a volunteer, hacer voluntariado, y ¿tú Lis vas a hacer voluntariado? [Are you going to do volunteering?]

Muy bien, and finally the most popular in England, see if you can guess what’s the most popular I think it’s not surprising at all , What is the most popular resolution?

So I’m sure you can guess what it means

Drink less, especially in England y Lis, tú en el otro año, ¿tú quieres beber menos? [Lis, you next year, do you want to drink less?]

Very good, so those were the most popular new years resolutions we also came with our own Spanish Obsessed resolutions, so there is a question that you can ask to find out what someone’s resolutions are, so Lis how do you say to someone “what are your new year’s resolutions”?

So Ok Lis, ¿Cuáles son tus resoluciones para el año que viene?

What was number 1?

Right, and what does that mean?

Mejorar, improve, mi nivel de inglés, my level of English, my English. OK, what was number 2?

Aprender a bailar tango? and what does it mean?

Número uno es aprender a nadar mejor, segundo es aprender Ruso, el idioma ruso y finalmente el número 3 es tomar menos cafeína, yo tengo un problemo, tomo demasiada cafeina. [Number one is to learn to swim better, second is to learn Russian, the Russian language, and finally number 3 is to drink less caffeine, I have *a problem*, I drink too much caffeine]

Un problema, gracias! Quiero tomar menos cafeina [A problem, thanks! I want to drink less caffeine]

yY cerveza también, gracias! [And beer too, thanks!]

Number one aprender a nadar mejor, means aprender – to learn, a nadar mejor– to swim better. I am not a very good swimmer I want to learn how to swim better, it will be my new exercise. Number 2 I said aprender ruso, so aprender again- to learn and then Ruso is Russian. I used to speak Russian unfortunately I’ve forgotten most of it, so I’d love to learn that again, and finally tomar menos cafeina y alcohol so drink less caffeine, I drink far too much coffee so it would be great to drink less caffeine and while we’re at it maybe less alcohol as well. So what are your new year’s resolutions? Why don’t you let us know in the comments below, we’ll be really interested in finding out you can tell them in English, or Spanish, or whatever you like. Until then that’s all from us spanishobsessed I’ll say hasta luego [Goodbye]