Ideas for your language journal
In this blog post, I'll share with you some ideas of how you can acquire writing and art into your language study process. Don't hurry up to think that writing is something absolutely NOT essential nowadays when it comes to learning. It IS! The skill of writing in your target language will afterwards help you with speaking (being able to form sentences easily), learning new vocabulary, and in the end just having a good time (writing will come along with art).
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Being a language learner, you may sometimes have difficulties when it comes to new ideas and approaches to your study process - it's okay to get tired once in a while and get bored with typical tasks and exercises suggested to you in a grammar or textbook.
However, there's one thing that helps me every time to make my own study routine more enjoyable and fun - a language journal. Today, I'd love to show you what language journaling can bring to your learning process, what kind of journals I myself keep and create, and of course will give you ideas for your own one. Let's go!
Culture and language are undeniably connected, and getting to know the country of your target language is, in my opinion, essential. Of course, you can do that by visiting the country itself, but if you are not able to do that now, no worries! 
Look at me - I've been learning English and French for several years now, but haven't got the opportunity yet to visit these beautiful countries. However, I've been travelling there on paper, as I call it.
In my UK and France projects, I write about geography, history, traditions, its people's customs, etc. It's hard to explain how much it helped me (and still does) to dive into the languages even deeper; explore so many wonderful places; and of course improve those languages through reading and writing about all that.
You'll see more of that in this video. Have a look:
For me, a language journal is a notebook in which you write on a specific topic in the language you're learning. One of my personal favourites is a country project. Let me explain: I always say that learning a language is not enough - you should also know its country / countries (i.e. territories where that language is spoken).
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DEFINITION AND EXAMPLES
Culture and language are undeniably connected, and getting to know the country of your target language is, in my opinion, essential.
Yulia
language learner and founder of LanguageEasy
Talking about history too, I can't leave without mentioning to you my history project - a journal where I write about English history. Once I started my UK journal and began reading more profoundly about English history, I knew I had to keep a separate notebook on the topic. If you're not a fan of history on the whole, that's totally fine if you decide to add just a few main and basic historical facts about the country of your target language into your country project.
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Another journal example will definitely appeal to reading lovers. If you're into reading, I highly recommend you to make a reading journal for all those books you read in your target language(s). In this journal, you'll be able to write anything you want related to reading: make TBR (to-be-read) lists, give your reviews after you finish a book, and more. I sometimes like to retell the whole story - this way, I will not only remember for longer what I have read, but also practise my writing skills very well and learn better new vocabulary.
If you want to know more about commonplacing and see in detail how I keep my own one, watch this video:
A bonus for you, who have come almost till the end of this article, will be my recommendation to create a commonplace book. If you love drawing, decorating pages, sketching, reading magazines on different topics, highlighting quotes in books… in short, if you love art - please, do connect it to your language study process! A commonplace book is an amazing way to do that. Collect and copy magazine articles in the language(s) you're trying to master, different quotes from books you'd like to remember, copy your favourite poems or song lyrics, etc. If you add to this process sketching and other page decorating stuff, in my opinion, it's a perfect formula on how to make language learning an enjoyable process.
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If you love drawing, decorating pages, sketching, reading magazines on different topics, highlighting quotes in books… in short, if you love art - please, do connect it to your language study process!

Yulia
language learner and founder of LanguageEasy
REASONS TO JOURNAL

As you might have guessed, having a language journal is an amazing idea that will surely make your study hours more fun. Anyways, let's try to sum it all up and see all the advantages of this activity in one place.
Language journaling…

• improves your target language(s);
• lets you “meditate” and avoid now popular burn-out;
• makes it possible for you to travel on paper and explore cultures if you can't visit right now;
• perfectly connects study process with art.
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MORE IDEAS FOR YOUR JOURNAL

Of course, what I have told you here is only an example. I'm sure you'll be able to create your own language journal and think of other special ideas. Actually, when it comes to language journaling, there are no limits and rules - write about whatever appeals personally to you. In any case, I'm leaving for you here another video I've made on the topic of language journaling in which you may encounter more ideas ;)
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