Søren The Language Adventurer

Getting written practice in your target language can be quite the challenge. Especially, if you don't know what you want to write about. Perhaps, your level is not higher to discuss topics you are passionate about yet. That's okay, you can always look up what you don't know and then use websites, apps and tools like HiNative or italki  to get corrections from native speakers. Describe as much or as little as you want depending on your level in your target language(s).  Keep it as simple or complex as you'd like and feel free to revisit these prompts are you improve in your target language(s). Feel free to skip over prompts you don't feel are relevant to you or don't want to do. 1) What did you do today? 2) What are your plans for today/tomorrow/the weekend/this week/this month/this year? 3) Who are you? (Introduce yourself in your target language(s)) 4) What do you like to do for fun? 5)  What do you do for work?  6)  What are the pros and cons of working at y...

 Welcome to the first day of 2026 (as of writing this blog post anyway)! I hope everyone is having a great start to their 2026 so far. After the terrible year that was 2025, I am so looking forward to what's to come this year. With that being said, I have decided that I will not be setting any resolutions for this year whatsoever. This will definitely won't be ones of those "This is your year" type of unrealistic expectations. That's not to say that 2026 won't be a good you for you or me but trying to downplay real issues and challenges standing in your way is not exactly all that helpful. Therefore, I have decided to set goals that can be updated and adjust as time goes by without needing to beat myself up after experiencing a failure or challenging issue in my life. Which languages do I want to focus on in 2026? My current target languages include Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, German, Japanese and European Portuguese. However, I have not spend a consistent amount...