All of us here at ESL Podcast wish you and your family a very happy and peaceful New Year. To learn a little more about how New Year’s Day is celebrated in the U.S., see a couple of our previous episodes here and here.
We look forward to another great year of podcast episodes, and hearing from all of you here on our blog.
~Jeff
Photo credit: Tournament of Roses Parade 2008, Wikipedia CC
Happy new year for all the eslpod team,my best wishes for all of you and your families
Rodrigo
Venezuela
Thanks Jeff.
Wish you all and all ESLPod. team to have a great 2013.
I do not you guys but last night I went to bed at 10.
Going to bed so early this morning I woke up at 5. As I am used to keeping my wireless headphone on my night table
I put them on and listened a great jazz concert on NPR live from New York with the cowntdown at 6am Italian time.
At noon I looked at a new year’ concert broadcast from the Teatre La Fenice in Venice.
They played all music by Giuseppe Verdi for his 200th anniversary of birth.
Look for it on You Tube it is worth the effort. It gave me goosebumps.
Thanks .Bye!
Well this morning I have been watching to the Viena´s concert, the same as every first morning of
the year.
The concert has been really good and we could see the beautiful land of Austria.
I like Viena a lot, just a pity not having a million euros to go to the concert some day, but
I know that even so it is really difficult to get a ticket to the Concert.
Tania, Sergio, Betty, ESL friends did you see it?,
HAPPY NEW YEAR JEFF, LUCY, ESL TEAM and ALL OF YOU DEAR FRIENDS.
Cuca and emiliano.
Happy new year for all of you!
Happy New Year to everyone and every creature in the world!
The time has come for everything to grow again.
I am a year older, and I have a year less to do what I want to do in my life.
However, I feel I am finally able to do everything I want to do this year because my children are old enough to look after themselves.
Dear teachers Jeff, Lucy and Warren
Dear blog friends Tania, Emiliano & Cuca, Peter, Dan, and millions of English learners
I wish you all a Great time learning English.
I hope to make greater progress in the new year 2013.
I hope to have more time to enjoy listening to Jeff & Lucy’s podcasts.
I hope to see more of you in this website.
I will continue to check this page to look for you all, please, please do write more.
Thank you God for granting me another year to enjoy life.
Betty 🙂
Happy new year!everyone!!! 🙂
Happy New Year to everyone! Especially thanks to our fantastic host, Dr.Jeff and his staff.
Ditto ,Jeff.
Thanks for all the episodes in 2012. Can’t wait for a new season in 2013:)
Happy 2013!!
Although , I m not crazy about the “13” part of “2013”
You know, in many culture the number ” 13 ” is assoscuated by bad omens.
So,it sounds a bit creepy 🙂
happy new year to you
i wish the best for you and your family
Oops, I have accidentally left out part of the contents in my previous message.
Please let me insert the missing part in my message.
Dear teachers Jeff, Lucy and Warren
I would like to thank you for your great and interesting teachings for the past years.
I look forward to more great and enjoyable lessons in year 2013 and many more years.
Thanks again and again.
Betty 🙂
Happy NEW year
Hope it will BE full of HAPPINESS and HEALTHY for all of YOU
Insha Allah(God willing(
IRAN- Fatemeh
Dear Betty,
You are too kind!!
Thank you for mentioning my name in your greeting message.
I wish you a happy 2013 full of progression in all aspect of your life.
Now , that you are free of a huge load of responsibility-that is- your beloved children, you have more time to tend to yourself.
I hope we all live a high life in 2013.
I hope Jeff and Lucy stay with us till the closing day of the year 2013.
I wish u the best , I wish you the happiest ,and I wish you the greatest days in ,days out in 2023
yours
The blog hog :))
Happy new year everybody!
Respected sir! first of all i wish you a happy happy new year, after that i’d like to tell you that i m a dia hard fan of you, i keep on listening to you pod casts, but the the problems is I do’nt have any transcript of the podcvast, ho can I get that.
Gul muhammad Peshawar Pakistan
Thanks Jeff and Lucy for all you have done last year ,your work has been very helpful for all of us and pleasant to learn.
Happy new year for the team ” Jeff and Lucy ” Thanks and thanks again.
Hì guys
Let me express some auto irony.
Looking at my previous post if I had to make a New Year’resolution
I should definitely get some social life! Hahaha!
Thanks. Bye bye!
Very happy new year to the voice I listen every day and makes me smile often and all the team.
Thank you for the quality of your work
Florence, france
Happy new year to you Jeff and all guys at ESLposcast team.
I would like to wish you a blessed 2013 filled with peace, joy and prosperity.
Best,
Ghasem, Iran
Godt Nyttår =Happy New Year to all of you!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Froh Weihnachten un ein glückliches New Jahr
Joyeux Noël et une Bonne Année
Becenoro PoKqectea n Chactilnboro Hoboro Lona
Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig NieuwJaar…(more or less)
Glaedelig jul og et Godt Nytár
God Jul og et Godt Nyttà
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Feliz Navidad y Prospero Año Nuevo
Sorry in Chinese and Japanese it does not appears……what a pity.
I would like to write it also……..????? ????? instead, I try other form:
Shen Dan Jie Kuai Le (Merry Christmas) Xin Nian Kuai Le (Happy New Year)
Me Ri Ku Ri Su Ma Su (Christmas) Akemashite omedetou ( Happy New Year)
For everybody my best wishes for the new year…..
emiliano “gatufo”
My best wishes and a happy new year, from Belgium to everyone.
I really appreciate the ESL podcasts, especially those PDF pages – readings, wondering how to study them in order to make proper use of it. Further on, I’ll see some imported progress in the near futher as I came across with an interesting television broadcast with transcription .
All the best.
Happy New Year for all of YOU
I wish all Healthy, Wealthy and succeed
Ziba
Iran
Hi!
Ray Bradbury…First I was fascinated by the book title” Fahrenheit 451″, something which reminds us of Physics with precise date, here, the autoignition point of book paper.
And then, the Ray Bradbury’s idea from 1953 valid and today in 2013 that his book explored the effects of television and mass media on the reading the literature.
Today few people read books. Only PC, only internet, only TV, smartphones, video games…
I know a young IT engineer who wants no book in his home. “I have my PC with anything I want” he says.
But a house without books? Like a tree without flowers?
We can’t buy all books to make our own library at home. But I again agree with Ray Bradbury:
“Libraries raised me. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.”
I think the library is one of the places where the spirit of emulation is born.
We use the same word “emulatie”.
Hi!
I have not read “Fahrenheit 451” but I have read the plot summary hoping to see the movie.
Montag , the main character, is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic American city, as his boss shows that literature is morbid and dangerously complex, and that it deserves incineration.
Forced to burn his own house himself, Montag runs away and he finds a group of renegade intellectuals (“The Book People”).
They are a part of a nationwide network of book lovers who have memorized many great works of literature and philosophy.
Enemy jets appear in the sky and destroy the city with bombs. Montag and his new friends move on to search for survivors and rebuild civilization.
The Montag’s escape followed by helicopters and a TV crew (in a book written in 1953) remember me of “The Fugitive” , an 1993 American thriller film made after the Sam Sheppard murder trial (English Cafe 377).
Hi!
I like the meeting between Montag and Clarisse, a beautiful seventeen-year-old who introduces Montag to the world’s potential for beauty and meaning
with her gentle innocence and curiosity.
She is an outcast from society because of her odd habits, which include hiking, playing with flowers, catching butterflies, reading which is against the law.
Thinking independently, asking questions, she seems genuinely happy.
“Are you happy?” she asks him.
Have you ever felt you are like an outcast having one of the Clarisse’s habits?
Hi!
“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal…
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.”
Ray Bradbury Quote
In my opinion, we can use our book-educated mind which can be our “loaded gun” in many cases.
Hi!
“The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time… Time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him.”
Ray Bradbury Quote
Thank you,my teacher.Happy almost New Year!
Please accept my humble apologies for being too late to say happy new year.
You guys are unstoppable. You produce one after one new podcast lessons and I think it’s a big success.
It’s a shame that I’m not capable of catching up on all your continuous lessons and I know it would have been better for me if I could.
Listening to you is not only provides me with new ideas and invaluable information of diverse contents but also I can’t really get enough of it!
Finally I hope you keep up the good work going in this very brand-new year and I’m sure you won’t regret this great act of pulishing the outstanding website, ESLPod. Hope you’ll get a good feedback of devoting a great deal of your time and energy.
I wish you good things come into your life soon and your dreams come true. I wish you good health and having courage of making more steps toward success and true life.
Your die-hard listener, Iman from very far located counry also somewhat unknowen to some folks, IRAN
Dear RED13
I read your message with huge interest.
Thank you for such good comments.
It makes me think a lot – what’s your background? What is it like to be a citizen of your country? What are the ESLPOD.COM’s dreams? etc. etc.
I was talking to the security guard of my building yesterday, I said it’s really scary how fast a year had gone pass.
He said, “When you were young, it’s not scary when a year gone passed so quickly. But when you are old, it’s really scary”.
I have a New Year message for every young people in the world: don’t waste time, learn something new everyday, time does not wait, it keeps running away.
Best wishes to you all.
Betty 🙂
Dear RED13
As my dear friend Betty you are absolutely welcome.
I know quite well where and how you country could be.
The ancient Persian civilizaton is well known here in Spain
my country.
All the best for you and all the people of your country.
emiliano
Dear Betty how about facebook? Do you have an account? If any doubt ask your daughters for?
Happy time and Happy next ChInese New Year.
emiliano
Hi! My mistake: precise date.
Precise data (datum, data).
A Happy New Year for all the company of ESL Podcast,first of all the hosts Jeff and Lucy and their stuff.Also my wishes to Dan,Peter,Betty,Tania and the others new friends.But my special wishes to Emiliano the Great with his careful and serious ideas whose most of them coincide.Un prospero ano(no tengo N con tilde)nuevo Emiliano,i would like to add:???? ????????????-kala hristouyena=Merry Christmas and ???????????? ? ??????????? ??????-eftyhismenos o kenourgios hronos=a Happy New Year.
Thank you so much thanassis you areally kind, I wish all the best for you, your family and for all the people of
your Great country, first country where Democracy was established with Pericles thousands of years ago.
I think that our Mediterraneans countries are some how the origen of Occident Culture and yours specially
the same as Italy or even Spain.
It is incredible the lack of memory that some others have, but I hope a better time quite soon.
Happy New Year for All of Us.
emiliano
A BIG THANK YOU from me as well, thanassis. Thank you for mentioning my name. You are most kind.
I am very happy to see that emiliano is back here with us chatting as usual.
Thank you so much emiliano for helping us here with your unstoppable energy and great knowledge with history and worldwide cultures.
I was stunned to find you speaking Chinese! I wish I can speak some Spanish as well.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.
All the best wishes to you all.
Betty 🙂