Writing regularly in French helps to keep your language skills fresh, so what better way than to make a diary entry each day in your Journal Intime, as the French put it. Writing should be thought of as practice for speaking with a lot more time to think! The more often you write a phrase, the more embedded in your brain it will become and the easier it will be to say it without hesitating. Language learning is all about training the electrical paths memory of your brain, just as muscle memory works for physical activities.
