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Je fais un exercice pour pratiquer une langue.

Je fais un exercice pour pratiquer une langue.
I do an exercise to practice a language.
From Lesson 58:Expressing purpose (pour)·French

Questions & Answers about Je fais un exercice pour pratiquer une langue.

In English, we just say 'to practice'. Why do we need pour before pratiquer?
In French, when you want to say you are doing something in order to achieve a goal, you use pour followed by the infinitive (the unconjugated dictionary form) of the verb. So, pour pratiquer translates to "in order to practice".
Does fais mean 'make' or 'do' here?
The verb faire is very common and can mean both "to make" and "to do", depending on the context! Here, Je fais un exercice translates best as "I do an exercise". If you were talking about a meal, Je fais un gâteau would mean "I make a cake".
Why does the sentence use un before exercice but une before langue?
In French, all nouns have a gender. Exercice is a masculine noun, so it takes the masculine word for "a" or "an" (un). Langue is feminine, so it takes the feminine version (une).
How do you pronounce the 'u' in langue?
The "u" in langue is completely silent! The letters gu together just make a hard "g" sound, like in the English word "game". You pronounce the word roughly like "lahng".

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