IWTYAL 339: Is daily journaling in a foreign language effective?

Andrew asks: “I'm learning Lao. Is there a benefit to daily journaling?”

In This Episode:

Writing in your target language is a fantastic activity, especially if it appeals to you! Here are some of the  benefits:

• Review and consolidate what you've been learning
• Experiment with grammar and pose questions to yourself (which can get answered)
• Throws up new vocabulary that you'll have to look up
• Exposes your “interlanguage”
• Gives your teacher something to work with
• Provides evidence of progress
• Can match your learning style, thereby enhancing learning

One of the most important things about writing is, after you get feedback, to go and act on that feedback. It's too easy to not learn the lessons from teacher feedback.

Resources Mentioned:

• All the Writing Resources for Language Learning You'll Ever Need – a helpful blog post on writing by Lindsay Williams

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Olly Richards

Creator of the StoryLearning® Method

Olly Richards is a renowned polyglot and language learning expert with over 15 years of experience teaching millions through his innovative StoryLearning® method. He is the creator of StoryLearning, one of the world's largest language learning blogs with 500,000+ monthly readers.

Olly has authored 30+ language learning books and courses, including the bestselling "Short Stories" series published by Teach Yourself.

When not developing new teaching methods, Richards practices what he preaches—he speaks 8 languages fluently and continues learning new ones through his own methodology.