Speaking

- Take a topic you have covered in a recently and challenge yourself by setting a timer on
your phone and speaking about it for one minute. Afterward, listen to the recording and
see where you made mistakes.
- Come up with a question in your native language then try to answer it in your target
language. Where do you struggle to express yourself?
- Imagine you're giving a presentation about a topic you really enjoy. What would say?
Write down speech notes then perform away!
- Find a famous speech or movie scene and act out the script. Don't be afraid to exaggerate!
- Imagine you've just won a big award (like an Oscar or a Nobel Prize), but only have 3
minutes to come up with a speech. What will you say?
- Book an italki lesson and challenge yourself to speak as much as possible. You can
bring your own topic, or ask your teacher for one.
- Book an italki lesson and discuss with your teacher the movie you've watched. What
differences did you notice? Do you prefer the original or the dubbed version?

Listening

- Find some listening material that contains different accents. How much can you
understand? Try training yourself to understand the accents by slowing the sound
down and listening carefully.
- Go online and try to find some conversational native content (like an interview, a vlog,
or a basic dialogue) and see how much you can understand.
- Try listening to only one genre of music in your target language. Are there any
words that always seem to appear? How are they used?
- Listen to a famous song in your target language and try to explain the meaning to your
teacher in your next lesson. If you explain it well enough, your teacher might be able to
guess what it is!
- Find some audio in your target language. Listen at full speed, then slow it down and write
down any words you recognize. Were your words correct? What parts did you miss?
- Listen to a song in your target language and try to sing along without looking at the lyrics.
Afterward, read the lyrics and look up any new words.
- Find some audio in your target language. Listen at full speed, then slow it down and write
down any words you recognize. Were your words correct? What parts did you miss?
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Reading

- Take the tongue twisters you learned before and practice them again. How much have
you improved this time?
- Pick a text in your target language and record yourself as you read it. Hearing your own
voice is embarrassing, but hearing your own mistakes really helps.
- Read an italki article about your target language. What tips did you pick up?
 - Find something you’ll enjoy reading (comic books, articles, social media) and read it out
loud. This will teach you context-based vocabulary and reinforce words into your
memory.
- Find something you’ll enjoy reading (comic books, articles, social media) and read it out
loud. This will teach you context-based vocabulary and reinforce words into your memory.
- Find a subtitled video in your target language. Turn off the sound and focus on the
subtitles. How much can you understand?
- Read a text in your target language and underline anything you don't understand. Can you
guess the meaning by context? Afterward, check to see if you were correct.

Writing

- Take a text in your target language and rewrite it in your own words.
- Find a random topic and write down as much as you can about it in 5 minutes.
Afterward, analyze where you made mistakes and struggled to express yourself.
- Write a description of a place you know. Try to be as detailed as possible, as if you were
explaining to a stranger.
- Read a paragraph in your target language and try to summarize the key idea in 1 or 2
sentences.
- Write down 7 sentences using 7 new words you recently learned. Write a story, a script, or
even a song using all 7 words!
- Find a blog or article online that relates to a familiar topic and challenge yourself to
write a short paragraph in the comments section.