Do you need a bit more practice for both writing and reading comprehension in your target language? Try this as a regular activity, to go along with your software for language training. Doing so will help you exercise both comprehension and writing “areas” of language acquisition.
- Pick a publication on a topic that you like in your target language, preferably one with varying lengths of features.
- Choose three articles from it: one short (300 to 500 words), one medium (around 800 words) and one long (1,500 words or more).
- Take those three articles and set a goal for rewriting them in your own words. Give yourself a week (or two to three weeks, if you don’t have a lot of time to devote to it on a daily basis) to finish.
- Start by reading them and creating a clear outline of each article’s content. Use the target language for the outline – this will help train you in developing thought processes in the foreign tongue.
- After the outlines are done, start converting each outline into a sentence outline. That means expanding the brief phrases and clauses that stand for each idea into full-length sentences.
- Rewrite each article in your own words, basing your write-ups completely on each outline.
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