15 Easy Ways to Practise Writing in French

Don’t let your French writing skills get rusty! Here are 15 ways to keep up the language without worksheets or a text book:

• Write shopping lists in French

• Keep a journal in French

• Participate in discussions in French on social media/online forums

• Write to-do lists in French

• Comment on your favourite francophone influencers’ social media posts in French

• Open a social media account where you post a new word or phrase that you’ve learned, every day

• Add captions in French to your current social media posts

• Download the Hello Talk app and chat by text to native speakers

• Sponsor a child in a French-speaking country and write letters to them

• Buy a journal with daily prompts (e.g. gratitude journal) in your native language and answer the questions in French

• Write prose or poetry in French

• Create your own translation tasks: Choose a text that interests you (a quote, a poem, a magazine article, etc.) and translate it into French

• Participate in French writing challenges/competitions on social media

• Find a French-speaking pen pal and write letters/emails to each other

• Create your own dictation tasks: listen to any text in French (a song, a poem, a podcast, etc.) and transcribe all or part of it