Why I keep a journal in English every week
If you want to master a kind of language well, believe me, writing is the best approach to dive into somewhere deep enough for you to touch the beauty of wording. And wording is the best part of a language where mode of thinking, way of expression, flexibility of choosing vocabulary hide.
So, yes, I want to learn English well, promising myself a higher level of expression in a foreign language, getting to know what kind of experience I may have when I am capable of writing something down in English, as fluent and natural as the way I am putting what's on my mind in my native language. That's probably why I keep my journal in English every week.
To practice writing in English, you may have what's mentioned below, and have them all like a hot knife through butter.
AN OPPORTUNITY OF OUTPUT
You could write more than what's required on the test paper in CET, BEC and GRE exam. There is little possibility that you mayquit writing if you enjoying recording the inspiration flying across your mind, you feel like something's knocking the door of your heart, eager to be set free and flow along your pen and typing hand, finally onto the paper or screen. That's the need of expression. Never look down upon the power of eagerness of writing something down. It will be the strength behind English learning if you want to write in this language.
If you have something interesting worth to be written down, try to put it in English, so you may get double bonus, a sense of satisfaction after setting your ideas free, and a motivation to get English available for unhindered way of expression.
If you write, you are pushing yourself toward a positive way of input accumulation since what you have accumulated before gets its way back to the real world by practice. Those things finding their way to your brain through reading and listening days or even years ago may be awakened and contribute to theoutput here and now. An input without output is too rigid to be aroused, while an output supported by input will never sleep.
A WAY TO CHECK YOUR ENGLISH LEVEL
To write, then you'll see what you need to write well. If it is the first day for you to keep an English journal, I am afraid that it may be less satisfying than you have expected. You may have a lot of details splendid but you just miss the appropriate wording of it, so what you get in front of you is nothing but an article dim and dull, which makes you wanna quit. It's painful but you need to admit and embrace, or you won't see the need to make an alteration. You should be modest enough to start from zero, and never be too proud to be well aware of the gap between you and someone great. Now you just keep writing and leave out all the rest, then you'll see what you could become and what is left to be done if you want to be excellent.
A MOTIVATION OF LEARNING ACTIVATED
You may find the necessity to enlarge your vocabulary through writing, then you are motivated to reach that kind of volume so as to guarantee a more smooth and ideal writing experience. This is better than starting to memorize the vocabulary without an aim then collapse along the way.
You may find some of the words accumulated could be applied in another way, an unfamiliar way beyond your expectation, when you try to find the real word by typing the Chinese meaning in Youdao.
Beside vocabulary, you may feel the desire to know more expression and idiomatic phrase through reading. You may wonder how foreigners say it and want to do so to make your sentences more native and reading friendly to people speaking English. That is to say, you feel like getting rid of the sense of Chinglish. Moreover, you will have the enthusiasm to know something relevant to the topic you work on, and the knowledge you need to bring about something brand new and brilliant.
DEVELOPMENT ON MODE OF THINKING
You are doing a translation task when you get your ideas out of your brain in English. And practice makes perfect, so you will spend less and less time on it then your writing efficiency gets an improvement. Finally, you can skip the process of translation since the logic of English has been well set up within you, then you think and write as the English do. Here is the comparison between logic in English and Chinese.
Chinese prefers descriptive words before noun while English behind. All the other parts of the sentence like subject, predicate, object and adverbial phrase remain in the same position. So every time you write in English, adjust the way you put the attribute. This tip comes from the logic English, a public class in Youdao platform offered by Mr. Ping Zhong. English is just a game of resolution and recombination of words if we get the hang of the logic of a language. Hope that you may play it well after mastering the mode of thinking in English.
ENHANCEMENT ON SENSE OF LANGUAGE
Every time you write, it is a conversation with your heart in English. During this conversation, you get to know your own preference of vocabulary choosing, and what to do to make your works more attractive and readable. You have a better understanding of how the word fits with each other. You are better at expressing what you mean with words vivid and neat more and more flexibly and skilfully. One day you find it amazing that you could understand what used to be outside the range of your comprehension, since once you know why you write it this way, you will find it familiarly friendly when you come across similar expressions in the books you read.
Thanks for being my reader. And if you wonder whether my suggestions works well on you, go write an article, identify the gap, then the exact place to make efforts.
