Write an article based on this "Try keeping a dream diary. Create a time capsule of your daily life. Keep a travel diary. List the books you've read in a diary. Keep a gratitude journal. Maintain a project diary. Sketch out your ideas. Keep it short."
article: A dream diary is a place for you to record what you remember of your dreams upon waking. It should be written as soon as you wake up, because your dreams will soon be forgotten. You might keep a small notebook, pen, or pencil right beside your bed. Or, you might try an app on your phone that uses speech-to-text technology. No matter which sort you choose, the main thing is to be able to access it as soon as you wake up. If you're interested in seeing patterns in your dreams, try writing a title on each one for easier indexing. Consider analyzing your dreams using a dream dictionary, or by looking carefully at the imagery you see recurring in your dreams and thinking about what it might mean. This kind of diary can be fun to create if you're thinking about the possibility of your children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren reading your diary in the future. This kind of diary includes detailed information about your everyday life. You might want to include newspaper clippings, recipes, your own thoughts and comments on the daily headlines. Consider including both national and local events, as well as personal family information. If you're going on a trip, keeping a daily diary of the places you've been, things you've seen, people you've met and other detailed information about your trip will help keep your memories alive for years following your travels. It will also help you live more fully in the moment of your trip as you consider details for including in your diary. Take plenty of photographs, and carefully label each one by date, place, and any identifying information regarding people in the pictures so that you'll be able to remember them later. This is a diary that's often kept online in a blog format, but can also be kept by writing daily entries in a book. A reading diary allows you to keep track of all the books you're reading. You might want to include a short description of each book, its author, and your own response to the book. You can make your own rating system, and rate each book according to its merits. There are many options for keeping a reading diary online that you can explore. These can be useful if you want to quickly link to the book's online description. You can also use a reading diary to keep a list of books you want to read, books on your wishlist, or books you started but never finished. This is a list of things that you're grateful for, no matter how small or large. Research shows that people who keep a gratitude journal have lower stress, improvement in self-esteem, and more positive outlook on life. Some research suggests that keeping a gratitude journal might be most effective when done on a weekly basis, rather than a daily habit. Think about imagining what your life would be like without the specific thing you're grateful for. This is a way of making the gratitude journal more interesting. Write about the good things that happened that were unexpected or surprising. If you're working on a long-term project, whether it's building a house, planting a garden, or teaching your first course, consider writing about your progress in a diary. Keeping a diary about the work you do towards this project can help you chart your progress. Keeping a diary is also a good way to write down details that help you learn about your project. For example, you might want to write about project materials you've tried, and the results you found. This way the information is found all in one place, and can be referred to later. A diary might be used as a place to store up sketches, ideas, random thoughts and observations. You could include clipped articles, pictures, or quotes from other people that you find inspirational. You can include these ideas in any kind of diary, of course, but some people prefer to maintain one diary that contains nothing but their rough sketches and ideas. Quick drawings of things you see, or imagine, might be scribbled into a diary of this kind. Consider minimizing your diary entries. For example, limiting your entries to one sentence per day. Or one word. Or one picture. Try writing in haiku. The purpose of this kind of diary is to allow you to create a quick snapshot of your mood, your location, or your thoughts about the day. One diary possibility is to write down one adjective at the end of the day which describes that day. Then write another that you hope will describe the next day.

Write an article based on this "Identify cognates to easily add to your vocabulary. Listen to Romanian music. Watch Romanian films and television. Download US Peace Corps lessons from the Live Lingua Project. Read some children's books in Romanian. Practice vocabulary with word games and crosswords."
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As a Romance language, Romanian has a lot in common with other Romance languages. Romanian vocabulary is 77 percent similar to Italian, and 71 percent similar to Spanish. If you speak either of those languages, you likely already know quite a few Romanian words and phrases. For example, the Romanian word for "city" is cetate. Compare this word to the English word "city," the French word "cite," the Italian word "citta," the Portuguese word "cidade," and the Spanish word "cuidad." There are thousands of cognates among all Romance languages and English if you look at combinatorial forms words that end with a suffix, such as -tion, -ent, or -able. For example, any English word that ends in -tion has a cognate in a Romanian word that ends in -tune. By learning these forms, you can add thousands of words to your vocabulary. The rhythm and repetition of music make it an easy way to learn simple phrases in a language. You can find Romanian music on most streaming services, as well as on YouTube videos. You can also find a list of Romanian radio stations that stream online for free at https://www.101languages.net/romanian/romanian-radio/. Film and television are a great way to listen to native speakers conversing in Romanian. Search online for free films and television shows that you can watch. You may also be able to find Romanian films in the foreign language section of your favorite video-streaming service. You likely won't pick up a lot of Romanian just by passively watching a movie or a television show. It can help to start with English-language captions, so you understand what's going on. Through time and repetition, you'll start understanding more Romanian words. At that point, you can turn the captions off. You can also turn on closed-captioning in Romanian to learn more about what the spoken words look like when written out. The Live Lingua Project makes US government language learning materials available for free online. For Romanian, the project has 4 different Peace Corps packages, including a 126-page eBook on Romanian grammar. The materials are relatively dated but can help you get a better understanding for the language and how it's structured. There are also exercises and quizzes that can help you practice what you've learned. Reading children's books is a great way to learn basic grammar and vocabulary in any language. While there aren't many Romanian children's books available for free online, there are some available for purchase at major retailers, such as Amazon. Project Gutenberg has a few Romanian ebooks available to download for free at http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/ro. Once you have a little more reading skill, you might try to read Romanian newspapers. There's a list of Romanian newspapers available online at https://www.101languages.net/romanian/newspapers/. There are many websites and smartphone apps that offer flash cards and other word games that can help you develop and expand your Romanian vocabulary. Crossword puzzles may also help improve your spelling. Many of these are available for free, while others require you to purchase a subscription. The website Surface Languages has Romanian crosswords, word searches, and other word games available for free.