What are they talking about? Our lives are filled with endless interactions. Practicing speaking in a foreign language can be difficult if you have no one to practice with! You may ask yourself: what kind of speaking skills should I learn? What vocabulary should I memorize? What’s my focus? I am a Japanese learner, and recently, I discovered how helpful it is to write my own dialogues in Japanese. Writing your own original conversations is a great way to practice speaking if you have no actual conversation partner. So, this post is about writing dialogues (dialogues are synonymous with conversations and dialogues usually imply that are written down, in my case, sometimes on scraps of paper at Starbucks!). I always knew about dialogues and their usefulness in language learning, in fact, they make up a large portion of content in many second language textbooks. Sometimes the dialogues in textbooks are helpful! Other times we simply forget them after class.