Having an online language log is a really fantastic idea to track your progress in language learning. You could update your log once or more times a week to record all sorts of different details. These details could cover how much time you have spent with your language, to practice writing in your target language, to cover your language learning moods, materials that you have utilised or some sort of combination of all of these.
Tracking these details online in your language learning path can be really beneficial for the following reasons:
1. You can see your actual progress and this will help you remain motivated.
2. Knowing that other people online are following your language learning path can also help keep you motivated.
3. Other people are likely to comment in your log at times and this will also help with motivation.
4. Keeps you focused on what you are doing to learn your target language.
5. It is easy to have lots of enthusiasm when you start to learn a language but it is also easy to lose this initial enthusiasm. A language log can help you stay focused and remind you of your initial enthusiasm.
6. It’s helpful to get a better overview of what works and what doesn’t work for you in your language learning path.
7. If you write parts of your log in your target language, you can practice your language at the same time.
8. More likely to meet people online who are following a similar language learning path to yourself and this can also help with motivation.
So where do you keep your online language log? Well, there are actually two different options.
The first option is to use a blog, for example like this blog by Teango. A blog from Google Blogger is free and easy to use.
Alternatively, you can start a language log in the forum of the site how-to-learn-any-language.com. In these forums, you can write your log in any language you like. At the end of each year, for those who wish to participate, they create ‘teams’ so that people can help their team-mates stick to their language learning dreams.
If you really are not keen on having a language learning log online, you can, of course, also do a private log.
Whatever you do, have fun whilst following your language learning dreams.
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