2+ Months of Language Learning Prompts!
Sometimes it can be tricky to know what to learn if you are teaching yourself a language. Here are some ideas for what you can focus on learning each day for the first two months of learning a new language! I formatted it so there is the general topic for the day and then in parentheses are some ideas to get you started but you can definitely learn a lot more than what I’ve written down! These are just to help generate some ideas!
This definitely would move pretty quickly if you covered all this material in 2 months so you could definitely spend more time on each topic if you need! This would require quite a bit of time each day in order to learn it all. This could totally work for a 4 or 6-month challenge where you spend 2 or 3 days on each of the topics I listed if you don’t have enough time to cover each topic in just one day!
- Polite phrases (thank you, please, yes/no, you’re welcome, I’m sorry)
- Introductory phrases (hi, my name is, I’m from, I speak, how are you?)
- Pronouns (I, you, he, she, they, we)
- Basic people vocab (girl, boy, man, woman, person, child)
- Basic verbs in present tense (to eat, to drink, to walk, to read, to write, to say)
- Sentence structure (how to form some basic sentences)
- Negative sentences (I do not __)
- Question words (who, what, where, when, why, how, how to form questions)
- Numbers (0-20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 1,000, 1,000,000)
- Time (hour, minute, half hour, reading the time)
- Meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert, appetizer)
- Basic foods (apple, banana, rice, bread, pasta, carrot, soup, water)
- More foods (beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, juice, coffee, tea, chocolate, cake)
- Kitchen (stove, oven, kitchen, fridge, table, chair, bake, boil)
- Eating supplies (knife, spoon, fork, plate, bowl, cup, glass)
- More verbs (to make, to have, to see, to like, to go, to be able to, to want, to need)
- Family (father, mother, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandmother, grandfather, parents, grandparents)
- Transportation (car, train, plane, bus, bicycle, airport, train station)
- City locations (apartment, building, restaurant, movie theater, market, hotel, bank)
- Directions (north, south, east, west, right, left)
- Adjectives (good, bad, smart, delicious, nice, fun)
- More verbs (to give, to send, to wake up, to cry, to love, to hate, to laugh)
- Colors (red, yellow, blue, green, purple, black, white, brown)
- Emotions (happy, sad, calm, angry)
- Physical descriptions (tall, short, blonde, brunette, redhead, eye color)
- Body parts (arm, leg, hand, finger, foot, toe, face, eye, mouth, nose, ears)
- Descriptors (rich, poor, beautiful, ugly, expensive, inexpensive)
- Basic clothing (shirt, pants, dress, skirt, jacket, sweater, skirt, shorts)
- Accessories (belt, hat, wallet, gloves, sunglasses, purse, watch)
- More verbs (to keep, to smile, to run, to drive, to wear, to remember)
- Animals (cat, dog, horse, cow, bear, pig, chicken, duck, fish)
- More animals (turtle, sheep, fox, mouse, lion, deer)
- Months (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December)
- Seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer)
- Weather (sunny, cloudy, hot, cold, snowing, raining)
- States of being (I’m hungry, I’m tired, I’m thirsty)
- House (bedroom, living room, bathroom, stairs)
- Furniture (bed, lamp, couch, door, window)
- Electronics (phone, TV, computer, camera, radio, headphones)
- Nature (tree, flower, plant, animal, grass, animal, outside, sky, sun, moon, clouds)
- More verbs (to teach, to learn, to understand, to know, to listen, to hear)
- School (classroom, elementary school, high school, college, student, class, grade, homework, test)
- School subjects (math, science, English, art, music, chemistry, biology, physics)
- School supplies (book, pencil, pen, paper, notebook, folder, backpack, calculator)
- Classroom features (student desk, teacher desk, whiteboard, chalk, clock, bell)
- Jobs (teacher, scientist, doctor, artist, dancer, musician)
- More jobs (surgeon, manager, engineer, architect, lawyer, dentist, writer)
- More verbs (to buy, to sell, to work, to ask, to answer, to dance, to leave, to come)
- Comparisons (less than, more than, same, __er than)
- Languages (French, German, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, English, Japanese)
- Countries (France, Germany, China, Russia, Spain, Mexico, United States, Japan)
- Religion (church, temple, mosque, to pray, Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
- Past tense (I was, he ran, she wrote)
- Hobbies (shopping, sports, soccer, chess, fishing, gardening, photography)
- More verbs (to describe, to sleep, to find, to wish, to enter, to feel, to think)
- Art (paint, draw, painting, gallery, frame, brush)
- Morning routine (to wake up, to brush teeth, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, soap)
- Future tense (I will run, he will write)
- TV + internet (online, internet, to watch TV, TV show, movie, documentary, cartoon)
- More verbs (to look for, to stay, to touch, to meet, to show, to rent, to wash, to play)