New Year Around the World: Strange Ways to Start Again Podcast

Host: Welcome back to Dr. Ray's English Lessons! Today we're talking about New Year's traditions from around the world. Did you get a chance to read the article?

Guest: I did, and honestly, some of these traditions really -- Select -- caught me off guard a badge of honor stood out choke on hands-on. Burning giant dolls? Throwing plates at your neighbor's door? I didn't see that coming.

Host: Right? The Denmark one is wild. Apparently finding broken dishes on your doorstep used to be -- Select -- a badge of honor stood out choke on hands-on makes total sense -- it meant you had lots of friends.

Guest: Ha, I'd probably just be annoyed at the mess, but I guess it's all in good fun. What -- Select -- stood out choke on hands-on makes total sense over the top to you the most?

Host: Honestly, the twelve grapes in Spain. Eating one grape with each clock chime sounds harder than it looks -- I feel like I'd -- Select -- choke on hands-on makes total sense over the top spoke to me half of them.

Guest: Same! But I love that it's so -- Select -- hands-on makes total sense over the top spoke to me travel bug. You're literally racing the clock. Meanwhile in Japan, people just calmly eat noodles.

Host: Which, by the way, -- Select -- makes total sense over the top spoke to me travel bug blast to me -- long noodles for a long life. Simple, elegant, no pressure.

Guest: Exactly, and it's a nice reminder that not every tradition has to be -- Select -- over the top spoke to me travel bug blast trip over. Some are quiet and symbolic instead.

Host: True. The suitcase tradition in Latin America really -- Select -- spoke to me travel bug blast trip over sums it up, though. Walking around the block with an empty suitcase to attract travel next year? I'd do that in a heartbeat.

Guest: Same here, I've got a serious -- Select -- travel bug blast trip over sums it up fresh start myself. I might just start doing that every December thirty-first.

Host: You should! And don't forget the Bear Dance in Romania -- dancing through the streets in huge bear costumes. That one seems like it would be a total -- Select -- blast trip over sums it up fresh start giving those a miss.

Guest: It does! Though I'd probably -- Select -- trip over sums it up fresh start giving those a miss tuning in my own feet in a costume like that.

Host: Same. But I think what really -- Select -- sums it up fresh start giving those a miss tuning in caught me off guard for me is that closing line -- "out with the old, in with the new." Every tradition, no matter how strange, is really about the same hope.

Guest: Right, it's basically saying we all want a -- Select -- fresh start giving those a miss tuning in caught me off guard a badge of honor, we just go about it in wildly different ways.

Host: Well said. So, any New Year's resolutions this year, or are you -- Select -- giving those a miss tuning in caught me off guard a badge of honor stood out?

Guest: Honestly, I usually give up by February, so this year I'm keeping it simple -- just travel more.

Host: I love that. Alright, that's it for today -- thanks for -- Select -- tuning in caught me off guard a badge of honor stood out choke on, everyone, and here's to a great year ahead!

Guest: See you next time!