How Instagram Helps To Learn More, Part II Hello, everybody! I promised to continue my story about me learning four languages at a time within a challenge on instagram called "100 days of languages". The idea is to spend at least fifteen minutes a day learning chosen languages. I picked English (you can read about it in my previous entry), French, Italian and German for myself. Today's text is about French. Some of you might know that I speak French fluently because I spent my last six years living in a French-speaking country. Why do I want to "learn" it? Because we do not have to stop learning a language, ever! It's impossible to be perfect in any language, even our native. So I've decided to expand my vocabulary and learn more precise words for different occasions, because I tend to use "general" vocabulary to express anything. And my favorite way of doing this is reading. So I chose a book written in modern language and from time to time I find some very useful words and expressions in there. I use a digital notebook to record them and I repeat these lists every day. But I don't just write the word and a translation. I always try to find an expression or a phrase that uses this particular word, because learning single words without context is useless, believe me. If you don't know how to use it in a phrase it won't stay in your head. Another thing that helps me to learn new words and expressions is to write definitions of words I learn in a language I learn. For example, for the word "emmener" it would look like this: emmener - mener quelqu'un avec soi d'un lieu dans un autre ; conduire, transporter Le bus vous emmènera jusqu'à la Concorde. So normally I wouldn't even write anything in Russian (my mother tongue), except for some really difficult cases. One last thing I want to improve in my French is grammar, because in a spoken language we don't use many tenses, just present, a few of past tenses and a future, so my knowledge of less popular ones fades with time. But sometimes, here and there, we actually need them and I'm getting lost, because I don't really remember the right way to use them. That's why I want to strengthen my knowledge of rare grammar tenses to be able to use them in a right moment. Today's entry might be a little messier then the previous, but I'm leaving it like this because we cannot correct ourselves in real life when speaking. Thank you for reading it until the end. I wish all the best with your learning experience and see you soon!