Today I'm sharing a tip from one of our language exchange for language professionals meet-ups and it's something that I'm doing to help with my Portuguese.

If you commit to giving yourself regular opportunities to write, this will also help your general fluency. Finding time for something quick is often easier than finding time to write a long essay! You can always extend the word count - I often go well over mine - but it's a minimum and you can always make the task harder as your language skills increase.

You can also add new rules such as "don't use the dictionary" - so you have to use the words that you already know. I'd do that for German and Romanian, but the Portuguese practise for me is also about vocabulary building.

You can be more prescriptive about the text.

Or, if stories are more your thing, you could commit to writing a bit more of your story each time.

If you try this out, let me know how you get on!

Find out more on the show notes page:
https://www.englishwithkirsty.com/podcast/episode251

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