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 your job?
7) Do you like your job?
8) What does your ideal holiday/vacation look like?
9) Do you have a good relationship with your family?
10) What are your professional goals?
11) What are your personal goals?
12) What do you believe in?
13) What will you not compromise on when it comes to boundaries with other people?
14) Which countries do you want to visit in the near future?
15) What career appeals most to you?
16) What does your daily routine look like?
17) What needs to change in your life?
18) Do you have (a) romantic partner(s)?
19) Who can you rely on in your time of need?
20) What's your favourite book (series)?
21) What type of music do you like to listen to?
22) Who are your favourite musicians and/or bands?
23) What's your favourite food?
24) What do you like to drink?
25) Do you like to exercise?
26) What's your exercise routine?
27) Do you like sports?
28) Would you rather watch sports on TV or participate in them in person?
29) What's your favourite TV show (or series)?
30) Do you play games (e.g. board games, video games, mobile games, card games, etc)?
31) What are your favourite games to play?
32) What are your favourite YouTubers, influencers and/or celebrities on TV or movies?
33) Who are your role models?
34) Do you consider yourself a role model (why or why not)?
35) Who do you trust when it faced with an crucial issue in your life?
36) How do you deal with challenges in your life?
37) Do you go to therapy?
38) Who inspires you?
39) What inspires you?
40) What does your grocery list consist of?
41) How close are you with your friends and/or family?
42) How well do you get along with your colleagues?
43) Do you like to follow plans or be spontaneous and play everything by ear?
44) What are you favourite idioms, proverbs, quotes, etc in your target language(s) and why?
45) Have you ever been scammed?
46) Have you ever had something stolen from you?
47) What's your favourite music genre?
48) What's your favourite movie and why?
49) Do you take accountability when you get called out for problematic behaviour?
50) What is an embarrassing moment you had while learning your target language(s)?
51) What is the most embarrassing moment in your life?
52) How political are you?
53) What are your political views?
54) How do politics affect your everyday life?
55) What's the most scary (or traumatic if you feel comfortable writing it down) moment in your life?
56) Have you been to a haunted house/location before? (If so, what is your experience being there?)
57) What are your dietary needs? (e.g. vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, flexitarian, no dietary restrictions, etc)
58) Have you ever had a health scare before? (If so, what did you do to alleviate it?)
59) What advice would you give to your younger self?
60) If you could go back in time, what would you change in your life knowing what you know now?
61) What are your thoughts on [insert controversial topic of your choice here]?
62) Do you have (a) pet(s)? (If so, what are they and how long have you been taking care of them?)
63) Do you have (a) child(ren)? (If so, how many and what are they like? If not, why not?)
64) Do you have nieces, nephews or niblings?
65) Do you know your neighbours or do you perhaps to avoid them whenever possible?
66) Do you listen to and spread gossip or do you prefer not to let them die when they reach you (ex: not spread them anything further)?
67) What appeals to your most about the cultures that speak your target language? (What's your most favourite aspect of their cultures?)
68) What was your embarrassing language learning moment and what did you learn from it?
69) What are your thoughts on "passport bros" and the harm they cause to the polyglot community?
70) What makes you angry and why does it make you angry?
71) Do you believe that there are genuinely good people out there in spite of horrible events happening in the world right now?
72) What makes you sad and why does it make you sad?
73) How do you deal with confrontation?
74) What do you to do deescalate an argument?
75) Have you ever been the person who escalated an argument or fight and how bad did it get?
76) Have you ever gotten any one fired at your job?
77) Have you ever been fired from a job?
78) What are you grateful for?
79) What gives your life purpose?
80) Do you get along with difficult people? (If so, do you have any advice on how to deal with them) (If not, what's the final straw for you when dealing with them?)
81) Have you been there for others in their time of need?
82) Have others been there for you in your time of time?
83) How will you make the world a better place? (Describe what an ideal world looks like to you)
84) Do you stand up for others when injustice is brought upon them even if it doesn't impact you politically (or simply put: Do you support social justice?)? How do you do your part?
85) Have you even had to leave a high-control religion or cult? (If so, what religion or cult was it and did you either become an atheist or something else afterward?)
86) What are you nostalgic about?
87) Why do you think people are suddenly anti-vaxxers and don't trust science anymore?
88) What new sources are the most reliable and trustworthy to you? Are you able to discern political biases? Is having a political bias on news a good or bad thing? Do you take every news story (especially political ones) with a grain of salt until you can confirm it's true and not propaganda?
89) What propaganda have you noticed is most prevalent lately?
90) Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future?
91) What's the weirdest job you've ever done (or what's the strangest experience you've had at work?)?
92) Are you prepared to deal with an emergency when it happens? (ex: earthquake, volcano eruption, hurricane/cyclone, tornado, sudden health issue, being attacked, being robbed at gun point, terrorist attack, etc.)
93) What holidays do you celebrate? (If you don't celebrate holidays: why not?)
94) What are silly laws in your country that aren't enforced today because they are ridiculous?
95) How are you making a difference in the world today?
96) Do you take public transportation and/or use ride share services like Uber or Lyft? Why or why not?
97) Do you drive? Why or why not?
99) Do you call or text your friends to let them know you got home safely when you had to leave a potentially dangerous situation or place?
100) How do you deal with unwelcome unsolicited advice when it's given to you?
What do you think of these prompts? Do you have other prompts not listed here? Feel free to share them in the comments below and let me know if you found these prompts useful to your writing practice in your target language(s).
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