It’s travel season, many people go on vacation.
Maybe you are on vacation too but what to do with your languages?
You don’t go on vacation to be studying there all day but maybe you are afraid to neglect your languages because you won’t have time to revise them?
Then this article is for you!
When you go on a vacation most of the time it’s to relax or to discover a place.
You won’t have much time to study there and maybe you won’t think about it at all.
But even without really ‘’studying’’ you can revise your languages every day.
Option 1
You can work with flashcards, digital flashcards are easy to use and you have them all the time with you.
Two excellent flashcard apps are Anki and Quizlet, both available on mobile and on your computer.
A few days before you leave for vacation make your flashcards (insert them into the app) and you are ready to go. Everyday 5 minutes of revision time is not a big deal and (toch) will benefit you.
Best times to do your revision are first thing in the morning or before sleep. I recommend you to revise in the morning because after a long day it may be possible that you either forget to do it or that you don’t feel like it anymore.
What should you put on the flashcards??
You don’t know what to put on your flashcards? Just take sentences and vocabulary from the recourses you normally use to study.
Option 2
You also can use an app like Duolingo or Memrise. The lessons are very short and don’t take much time. Same here like with the flashcards, do it in the morning or in the evening, it will just take you 5 to 10 minutes and it will benefit you.
Option 3
If you are in the country of the language you learn then it’s another story of course! Just talk with the locals and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. This is the best exercise you can do to practice.
Surround yourself with the language.
Option 4
Another thing you can do is READ.
Reading is very important when you are learning a language.
Take a book with you in your target language or find newspapers in that language (when you are in the country of the language itself)
When you don’t have books or newspapers or you can’t find any, the internet is full of content. (online newspapers, e-books,…)
Read a little every day, 5 mins a day, for instance one article a day.
An amazing tool to read on the internet is “readlang“ , with this you can easily look up the meaning of a word.
Maybe you can take a little notebook with you to write the new vocabulary in it.
So these were some options you have to study or revise your language(s) even when you are on vacation.
5 to 10 minutes a day is good, it’s better than doing nothing and in this way you will be able to keep track on your language(s).
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