some casual ways to interact w/ your target language
1. play a dumb phone game in the language. low stakes way to force yourself to understand a lot. that new harry potter game, if you’re intermediate/advanced ? go off ! [majority of popular games will have multiple language options, otherwise if you set your phone into your target language it’ll likely change automatically]
2. feel like wasting some time online ? look for ‘quotes in x language’, or poetry, or just use search terms in that language. (or set your pinterest/tumblr/whatever settings to your target language)
3. find your horoscope in your target language !
4. shopping lists - or a to-do list (i.e. chores, homework etc.)
5. if you’re able, try making a simple recipe from your target language. could even be pancakes, mug cake or soup, but you can still read imperatives + find new vocab !
6. similarly, look for trashy online magazines, like seventeen or cosmopolitan in your target language. simple, attention-grabbing articles. buzzfeed, for example, has a spanish version, so try to change the language settings.
