I want to get back to practicing French, and I want to do small things every day to make it fun, yet challenging. Here are some baby steps I took today to get back into things.
Returned to my iTalki account and answered one of the practice questions
Here’s hoping one of the Community Tutors leaves me some feedback.
I read this article with 10 tips for practicing French.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s to be humble and see how others achieved the goal you’re trying to achieve.
One of the pieces of advice was on prioritizing your French practice to vocabulary that will be useful for everyday life. But since I’m not living in a French-speaking area and I don’t have any French-speaking relatives, I was unsure what to pick.
So, I looked at my wellness chart. What area of the eight pillars of wellness would best lend itself to learning French? The pillars of wellness that I focus on are:
- Emotional
- Financial
- Social
- Spiritual
- Occupational
- Physical
- Intellectual
- Environmental
I like writing short stories and I work as a professional writer, so I decided I would focus on learning vocabulary related to writing.
Et voilà! The Best Short Stories to Improve Your French (And Where to Read Them for Free)
How lucky am I? But before I dive into these, I’d like to read an article about short story composition and structure in French. Hold, please…
Beautiful! Comment écrire une nouvelle ? Règles clés et bonne méthode
Ask, and you shall receive.
There are 35 seconds left on the clock! What a great Pomodoro.
Neya xo
Neya Abdi 
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