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Creative Writing Prompts That Will Help You Learn a New Language

11/12/2018

 
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Having creative writing prompts that help you learn a new language is a great idea. A lot of people really don’t know a lot about all this, but we got you covered. We will help you understand this and learn that dream language faster. Now, let's do a little introduction about this. First, I'll break down each of these terms, so get comfortable and keep on reading.

Creative: It involves the use of your imagination or original ideas to create or make something.

Writing Prompts: This is a simple topic where you start jotting down ideas. The prompt could either be a complete paragraph, a single word or a short phrase. A writing prompt helps you get inspired for creativity.

One nice thing about writing prompt is the fact that it is free writing; the main deal isn’t what you write, but the simple fact that you do write. It doesn't even require a story or a story structure; it’s just designed to get you thinking. You can also use prompt as a source of good exercise to help build your creativity level and can help you develop new skills and also come up with ideas. As we know, practice makes perfect. One nice way write prompts so it looks less like a chore and makes it fun is by choosing interesting topics that’d bring up that fun part of you. So try to choose wisely.


How Can I Learn to Write a New Language With Writing Prompts
Writing prompts brings you out of your comfort zone. It allows you to write about something that you really wouldn’t write about on a normal day. When writing about a wide variety of topics or subjects, you'll need to learn about many different words. If you’re learning on your own, try writing these prompts daily. You can set a time variation of about 15-20 minutes per day, this would be an excellent way to practice your new language. Try to use some of the vocab words you learn to write when working through your vocabulary list weekly. If you want to even learn how to speak well, you can start by writing your thoughts down. Learning how to write sentences is a step towards learning how to say it out loud.
So here are some creative writing prompts that will help you learn a new language;
Express Your Family
Family comes first you know, so this is our first creative way. By writing about your family, you won't only use family related vocabulary, but you will also practice defining an age, color, height, favorite food as well as occupation.

Your Friends
It’s great writing about friends because you’re familiar, and talking to them in a simple way or manner should be fun and easy. If you have gotten more advanced with your writing prompt level, you could also write about your great friendship experiences; problems your friends faced; birthday parties; and also how your life was influenced by them. You could also write on what you like about them. Personality description can also be a great way to express more vocab, or you can also clarify how you met using the reciprocal verb concourse.

Tasks
Another good way to practice writing a new language is to write down your tasks. You can pick up two or three of them you would like to accomplish in a day. I know you would be wondering the type of tasks you’ll finish in a day, well here are some simple goals like getting a haircut or grocery shopping. This is also an exercise that gives you two benefits of practicing the new language and also making you productive.


Write on Your Experiences Yesterday
Writing about the previous day's event is also a way to practice, but you could also write about your accomplishments over the past year, month or even week. Making use of this creative way would allow you to practice your writing in the past tense, which is also a nice way for beginners and advanced persons. Talking about your past life or your relatives should be nice too.

Weekend Breaks
Writing about your plans for the weekend is also a great way your future tense. This is also an opportunity for beginners, and advanced persons to practice the future tense. A beginner could write about fun things that they might have been involved with during a previous weekend, while those in an advanced level could write on what their ideal weekend could be if they were given a free vacation or a date with a celebrity.

Night Dreams
If you can remember your dream when you wake up from your bed, you put it down in your journal. You can start by jotting down quick notes to avoid forgetting it. You don’t have to worry about analyzing your dream. Once you make your notes, you can then spend enough time writing down all that you remember relating to your dream. Writing dreams as your prompt is a way to have fun, it is an interesting topic. You can imagine writing all the strange things that must have happened at night.
We have given you five creative writing prompt but here are some other prompts that could be of help to you;

Writing a One-Paragraph Biography of Your Life
Writing about your biography might include varieties of past tense to describe one time actions as well as a description of events that have happened before. You can also practice using sequencing and transition words.

Recount an Event
The event could be historical, personal or even both. You can try to rewrite in the present tense, future tense or even perfect tense. This exercise assists you to become accurate and even faster at verb conjugation in any tenses.

Describe a Joke or a Funny Event
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This kind of prompt will challenge you to make up sentences using informal expressions and vocabularies that are exceptional and would get you to think out of the box for distinctive vocabulary.

Write a Short Story
While containing lots of action verbs, try making it very expressive. It can be a story with an unexpected angle or an imaginable twist, the most important part is that you should have real fun doing it.

Discuss any Issue That Affects The Public
Issues like a drought or an electricity outage, for example, can be a nice writing prompt topic. Try expressing the impersonal in various ways to bring up suggestions for people and also solutions that might help out.

Write a Letter to Another Student
You can explain your likes about learning a new language, include the difficulties you experienced while learning it and maybe the reasons why you decided to learn a foreign language.

Convince Someone to Adopt Your Pointview Of an Issue
Make use of persuasive language to try and convince them on your reasons and your strengths and their weakness about the argument. You can make use of a personal decision or political matters or anything or topic that can be argued on.

Write a Short Gratitude Note
You can express your thanks with words of gratitude. You can write a note to someone you feel must have made your day an awesome one with presents or a smile.

Pick any Conversant Topic
When you have an object in front of you, it's easier to try describing the object as descriptively as you can. You could also make use of comparisons and superlatives.
Creative writing helps in influencing your language, try out exercises for better improvement. I hope we helped you with the information you needed, have a great day!


Author Bio:
 Kristin Savage has graduated from Columbia University where she was majoring in Germanic Languages. Besides English as her mother tongue she also speaks German and Dutch fluently. Currently Kristin is studying Spanish and planning to obtain her PhD in Applied Linguistics since she is interested in how to use her to some extent practical knowledge of language processes in everyday life. She has been a writer at 
Pick Writers for a few years and is known for her thorough approach to all the tasks and aspiration to fulfill assignments with flying colors. 

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