One thing to remember: Be patient with your progression, not everyone learns a language at the same pace, and most important, enjoy the experience!

The key to learning a language is to take a lot of small steps and to be consistent. It's also important to have reasonable expectations and not to compare yourself to other speakers. If you're just starting out and already trying to "sound like a native", you will most likely lose confidence and motivation. Make a record of your progress and feel good about how far you have come. Language is a tool for communication and not a science.

I am native Arabic, know Turkish and English, while I am trying to study Persian and Norwegian at the same time. You are totally right on the huge similarities between Turkish and Persian. Actually Arabic, Persian and Turkish have well amounts of common words. However be aware of the same words different meaning, they are the hardest. Love from Türkiye 🇹🇷

As a Korean/English/Japanese speaker, I really understand that learning languages at the same time require discipline. Currently I am learning more languages but sometimes I still struggle finding the motivation to study. I like that you always give us tips that are realistic and help us to keep on track! Keep up the good work 👍

Proud of you gurl❤️‍🔥 Persian is my mother tongue and I’ve been studying English recently. When I realized I may have been forced to study German simultaneously, I really got nervous. Watching your video made me think that I can give it a try. Thanks 🥹 You can talk to me if you needed native Persian speaker btw haha.

I loved it when you said Walah و الله. And thank you so much for the valuable information. I never watch a video on languages and thought that the content is valid and realistic. 😘😘😘😘 Keep going 🤗🤗

Actually when you can speak French , English is easier to learn. And when you can speak both English and French ,Spanish is easier to learn. If you can speak Spanish, Italian and Portuguese become easier.

Vous êtes une source d'inspiration incroyable ! Merci pour cette vidéo Zoe !

Your transparency is much appreciated. I admire your dedication and discipline. Keep posting vids please, Zoe. ❤️

Thank you for your advices .As someone who studies multiple languages at once. This is very helpful.

Thank you for talking about your struggles, Zoe! With all the polyglots and UKposts and their "magical" methods it's easy to forget that learning languages is a neverending hard work with its ups and downs, and to get discouraged when one doesn't make progress very quickly or has difficulties. It really helps to see that others are struggling too and that those difficulties can and will be overcome with hard work :) Thank you and have a lovely day!

Having different priority levels for the languages is great advice! I'm thinking of starting to learn another language as my Greek learning feels like it's stagnating and probably just needs to improve through simple usage, but I wasn't sure how I could combine another language when I don't have that much time. But I can just make Greek a language I acquire passively through just using it, while the new one I will be my priority for as long as I still need to learn its basics. Now to find a language I'm enthusiastic to learn

Zoe! This was very validating of my own experience. Thank you for sharing with us.

As someone who grew up with multiple languages and cultures, understanding more than one language is a bit of a norm for me, but I do really want to be fluent in all of them. I natively speak English, speak a fair amount of Portuguese, and understand a lot of Persain. French and Arabic are also on my list to learn the basics of some day, and your videos truly inspire to keep at it and not give up, so thank you for that! :)

it requires lots of time and effort,of course,you must be disciplined,I have been learning French,Spanish,Portuguese,German and Japanese for some year,the biggest challenge is you have to do the same thing day after day😀

I have been learning Spanish for about two years and English for about a year. I'd like to start learning French, but I think, maybe , I should focus on improving my English before. I have been spending a lot of time on studying English because I listen a lot every day. It is so hard for me. But your videos inspire me to do better , thanks.

You really keep motivating me to continue studying languages...I'm currently studying Spanish, and it's been pretty hard, but thanks to your videos I'm still motivated

Really useful tips Zoe. I’m still in beginner German & never thought I could learn two language but I am now inspired to start French once I get to an intermediate level but also now I have some tips to do this 🧡

I've been studying Spanish inconsistently for 2 years but I have this strong inclination towards French and I'm fascinated by Korean writing(strokes). Your videos actually gave me a good study plan on integrating them all and not compromising value. Plus, I find myself mixing up French and Spanish a lot. I'll do well to seperate the learning time now. Thanks a lot, Zoe.

Hello, Zoe, from Armenia. Your videos are so helpful. Now I'm trying to improve my English, learning Korean and want to start learning Spanish. So this video is really supportive. Thank you very much.

It is inspiring, as always! Thanks a bunch! 🤗

love to hear your journey as always !!!

I'm learning Spanish in depth now. My goal is to become fluent and I've already been learning for almost a year :) I love your videos, you inspire me and a lot of people so much! Love from Germany

I've been watching a lot of your videos but this one was definitely the most helpful. I'm currently in Japan but it has been very challenging to find time to maintain my Spanish while I prioritise Japanese. Thank you for the tips.

I speak Portuguese as the official language of the country and I speak English as foreign language I learned a bit at a particular English school and also speak Shangaan as my native language. So I speak three languages so far. Now I need Spanish. I am learning it online from my WhatsApp friends who speak Spanish and I also use UKposts, but sometimes I lazy to carry on with Spanish, because of the occupations. I have been busy. Greetings from Mozambique 🇲🇿 in Africa.

I have to come back to you everytime now that I lost in language learning. My progress really slow and it‘s like fall through one after another. Well consistency is the prominent keys here. Wish me luck!

Thank you for the handy and practical advice. I enjoyed your video.

I'm also learning Chinese and German at once. Love your work. keep it up !

You don’t know how much I repeated that ‘wallah’ part. Türkçe öğrenen biri olarak ben de çok söylüyorum.😂

Very valuable and interesting experience - Thanks a lot! Good luck!

This was such a lovely video! I have been struggling to decide on one language to learn ( which is why I’ve debated learning two 😂) I started language learning again this year mainly because my mental health hasn’t been great ( and language learning has always been something that makes me happy and is my version of self care). Currently I’m learning Chinese, and I’m trying to pick maybe one other language to learn as a secondary ( French, Spanish, Dutch, Vietnamese, Czech, Turkish, Polish,ASL, Russian, Danish, Norwegian). My goal right now is to have more of a focus and routine ( like watching more tv in my target language) and also not being too hard on myself when I have bad mental health days and my study changes. Thanks for all the videos you make and for sharing your experiences 😊-Kira

You are such an inspiration !!! Some people are good in languages just like some people are good in maths. I am unfortunately not very talented while learning languages. However in India we are all bilingual or trilingual as in school I learned Punjabi, Hindi and English. My first “foreign “ language I attempted to learn was French. I tried several times to enrol in Alliance Français, but I could never understand or keep up with the pace. The second language I tried to learn was Russian. I did 2 semesters in the Russian Cultural centre, and I failed the second semester. Then I tried to enrol in a Mandarin course. I could not keep up with it. Three more times I tried to learn Mandarin through Italki, but I could never get the tones correct. The fourth course I tried to do was Farsi. I really like the language and trying to learn it. This year I have started learning Arabic and Spanish. This has been my language learning journey during the last 3 decades. I’m a retired person, who just loves to travel. So I have decided to become more serious learning all the 6 languages. Even though I am retired, I have elderly parents to look after, and struggle with doing more than 3 to 4 languages a day. I don’t have much of an issue to mix my languages as the languages sounds are very different. Despite the huge amounts of failure which I have had, I have a very high degree of optimism for the future. The common wisdom is to go after one or two languages. However If I was doing just one language I would probably give it 2 times the time, and certainly not 6 times. Just a general comment I want to make on what one sees in UKposts for Language Learning. You only see success stories and some people might start getting their expectations very high, which in the long run may see them abandoning the language, when the reality is different from the expectations. Have a great day 😊🌹

I speak English and Spanish but now I'm trying to learn Chinese. Greetings from Nicaragua 🇳🇮

You are stunning and you help us feel motivated and hopeful. Thank you for sharing your tips and habits. I find writing almost everyday in a journal in a foreign language really helps, especially if you combine that with the help of the internet and listen to and repeat the vocabulary and the sentences regularly.🥰

Zoe, you make it look really easy, and you have a great pronunciation!

Zoe, you are amazing. You give me a super motivation. Thank you for that.)))

Oh wow! this is such fantastic advice, thank you! I was trying to think of something in Spanish today and threw a German word in there, lol. Great tips for keeping them separate and the 'warm up' is such a good idea, thank you!

You are amzing Zoe! Good luck!

Hello Zoe, greetings from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴. You are a great inspiration! I love your videos, thank you for sharing your tips. I really want to improve my English.

I'm a native Swedish speaker, and I studying on English and Japanese at the same time!! And I really want to learn Mandarin on day the language feels like such a beautiful language to learn!! And I enjoy to pratice on new languages it's my new hobby! Anyway thanks Zoe for this video it's very helpful and give me motivation to never give up to learn a new language!!

Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us. Knowing those hard times will let us know practic make perfect ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Awesome tips!!! Thank zoe 😇

congrats. i cant find words to express my feelings. you're amazing. lots of luck in your life.

Im currently on my way of learning English,keep going, your videos are really helpful for me and other language learners

我同意，你说得对。好的办法。👍 I particularly like the fact that you display ''agile language learning', i.e. that you need to be flexible - and not get frustrated - and adjust your language learning goals (e.g. just dabbling, passing an exam, talking to friends, etc.) and expectations depending on how your circumstances might change, as well as to keep enjoying the process, even if progress seems very slow. Sound advice! 👏😊

These are great tips that we have found to be helpful for ourselves! The traditional Grammar-Translation Method is not the best way; you definitely need to surround yourself with the target language as much as possible and take notes in another language. Consistency of natural acquisition, reinforcement of structured learning, and continuing refinement of other learned languages by using them to study the current target language. Brilliant and effective!

I'm just 4 minutes into the video and I can state that I admire and totally share your way of thinking about language learning & learning several languages simultaneously. I'm Italian and I'm currently on exchange year in Norway, thus working on my Norwegian and always perfecting my English. As I've gotten here I met several Latin-Americans, fact that awakened my will to start learning Spanish again, which I had studied it in the past for a little while, so I began to practice Spanish in addition to Norwegian and English. Recently, my guts feeling is telling me to start learning Dutch, as it intrigues me as a language. You gave me the confirmation that learning several languages at once is possible with the due commitment, discipline and endeavours. This really motivated me to keep up with my language learning journey! Keep up the great content! Much love

Thank you so much for these helpful tips. You're such an inspiration ❤️ so happy I found your channel 😊

Merci Zoe! Adoro sua forma de estudar e explicar! Sucesso Sempre! Paulo

Thank you very much for sharing it 👍 I appreciate it

I’m 19 years old. From elementary school, I always fancied the idea of learning Spanish, but always waited for a mentor to do so. Last April, by entering university and seeing how different the environment is, I finally decided to take matters into my own hands, and started teaching it myself! Thing is, that after just a year of learning Spanish, I met foreigners from other countries and before I knew it, I had started learning languages from left to right. However, as you know and pointed out, this is a significantly bad idea, because you start mixing the languages with one another. I was so excited at first, but quickly got overwhelmed, and decided to take a step back and stick to only 2 languages for the time being (Spanish and Norwegian). That way I can organise my time better as well. Mostly everyone told me that learning multiple languages at once is impossible, but watching your content has majorly helped me to keep going, no matter what the other said! So thank you for everything you’re doing, for advising and inspiring us to become the best version of ourselves! Lots of love from Greece! 🇬🇷💕

Good Job Zoe !! You help me a lot Thanks from Brazil.

Beautiful, Ambitious, AND Brilliant!! Hats Off!!!!!

The odd days and even days idea is very good. I am going to use this!

Thank you for the information in this video.

Great video! Congrats on your efforts :) I'm currently trying to learn Russian through Japanese, and even though my Japanese is much more advanced than my Russian, I still find a few words slipping through, haha. I think you just have to laugh about it when it happens. I try to enjoy the struggles, as it's all part of the process. (I'm not always perfect at it though, but usually the more frustrating times means I need a little break!) Best of luck continuing your language learning journey! :)

Thank you for your recommendations

Thanks for your tips!!!😍😍😍

I am now learning Spanish but I always think of learning other languages.This video is really inspiring! Thank you, Zoe!

Merci Zoe - quelle motivation pour moi !

as one who might speak the same native language as you,It’s the most understandable english I’ve ever heard on UKposts to my ears. Lol, hope one day I could reach your accuracy.

128K subscribers in less than 8 months. Holy Cow! You go girl.

Thank you so much for you shearing your experience! I wasn't know what Turkish and Persian language are close, i was surprised. You are always hard working that's awesome, i hope you are enjoying your hard work and don't hurting yourself! Theme about avoiding mixing languages so important to me, in differents forums all suggestions was like: "keeping learning and you stop mixing languages". But you shearing your methods, thanks! ;)

Thanks! Great video.

Omggg! This video is such a must!! I’m really enjoying your videos! Keep going! You’re a big inspiration! :)

As you English improves, you accent is shifting too! Which is so cool, you used to sound more American, but you’re straying towards the “Queen’s English” accent. Neat!

thank you so much. it really will help me

teşekkür ederim bir türk olarak uzun zamandır seni takip ediyorum sayende az çok dil öğrenmeye başladım verdiğin teknikler sayesinde ciddi geliştim çok teşekkür ederim.

Thank you, Zoe. When we were at school, we learned two or three languages. I am learning Italian, started to listen to QVC Italian. Also I have Italian lessons at college. I learned French and very little Spanish at school. So I have started to organise myself. Learn Italian in the morning, in the afternoon, Spanish and French. I am doing passive learning. While am doing something else, listen to the language, once I become proficient, I will learn, German and Swedish. Swedish as I was planning to move there.

thank you for this video, very interesting 😁

Hey Zoe! In my case I am really into in English, French and Japanese. As a native spanish speaker to learn Japanese has been very difficult because the differences between both languages. Despite that I consider the Japanese write sistem very beautiful! By the way, Thanks you for your content here on youtube. It inspire me to improve.

Merci beaucoup Zoe! J'aime beacoup tes videos. Teşekkürler!

شكراااا جزيلا على نصائحك القيمة 💖

Has un daily vlog, de los idiomas que estudias diario, tu rutina , etc. Nos encanta, no importa si es lo mismo, igual es motivante 😊

Hi Zoe. In this video you mentioned an issue you faced which was losing motivation for the "old" language, in your case German. You mentioned feeling more motivation for newer languages as you felt like you were making more progress which made it more enjoyable. This is a very similar issue as what I am facing at the moment. Over the course of my high school and university years (I have just graduated with my Bachelors), I studied Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, and Spanish quite seriously, and have reached what I would consider either a middle or upper-intermediate level in all of these languages. In other words, though, now ALL my languages are "old" languages to me, as I have been studying them all for a considerable time, and I find myself struggling a lot. Last year I experienced the death of a family member, and it completely threw me off my language-learning routine. Now, I find myself completely unmotivated to study any of my languages, and I struggle to work out what sort of things I can do in order to study. For Spanish, I am able to engage with native-level materials, which is quite enjoyable for me. However, for Chinese and Japanese, I'm not yet at the level where I can engage with native-level materials that I actually enjoy, but I'm also at a stage where the study techniques that once worked for me when I was a beginner are no longer effective. Do you have any recommendations in regards to: 1) How to get back into learning "old" languages when you are feeling very unmotivated? 2) Study techniques that would be appropriate and effective for someone at a middle/upper-intermediate level? I feel that I have been studying these languages for so long that the spark is gone, so to speak, and I've also lost my initial momentum. I would really appreciate it if you responded to this comment, or even made a video addressing this topic. If you already have a video addressing this, then I apologise (I am new to your channel so although I have checked your previous videos, I may have simply missed it), and I would appreciate it if someone could direct me to that video. I also have one last question. Have you uploaded any of your videos anywhere on Chinese social media? I have a close friend who lives in China (and therefore does not have access to UKposts) who dreams of learning French but struggles a lot, and if possible I would like to send her your content. Thanks a lot for your great content, it's really helping me feel more positively about languages again.

Thanks for this video I'm starting learning Indonesian, now I can figure out how to set the time for each language. I'd like a video talking about demotivation for slow progress.Thanks!

Hi! Thanks so much for this video!! I've learnt English since I was a child, but still struggle with a lack of confidence while speaking and writing in this language. I can't prevent myself from checking on the internet if I use the right word, even though in most cases, I do. I feel like I make mistakes all the time, even in the most basic sentences. I'm just helpless. I don't think the reason is my language level, because I don't have such a problem with German and Italian. The more I study, the lower self-esteem I have.

Wow. You are amazing. Excellent. Great. Well done.

Hey I like to hear you speaking more Arabic thank you keep up the good work

More people should watch your vidoes because they are so helpful thanks you very much

Thanks dear for sharing👍🏻

Wow! You are an inspiration! I speak 3 languages and trying to get the 4th. I'm learning german right now and got until B1 but suddenly I just lost motivation and momentum but I want to go back and put the energy and effort, I don't want to lose the time and money I have already invested on it. Your video has given me the motivation to get back to it!

I love the way you learn, more specifically your method. I'm indonesian, i speak english, spanish and learning portuguese as i'm living in Porto. I totally understand this difficulty. By the way, i would love to learn Mandarin after i tackle my portuguese. Let's see..Good luck with your videos! i love them!

thx for the vid, very helpful tips about the methodoly, even tho I'm not learning 7 languages at the same time ... Cheers

Seven languages, you are a hardworking person

Hi Zoe! This video is so helpful and very apt for language learning. I’m from Singapore and we are bilingual since young. Our first language is English and im Chinese so my second language is Chinese. I have been learning Thai for 5 years now and I realise Chinese language helps me in learning Thai as well due to the tonal nature of both languages. And Thai has some similarities with Chinese dialect Teochew dialect as well. Like what you mentioned, we can find similarities in languages connecting those dots and slowly learning day by day. We can do simple exercises for eg when we see an object. we can test ourselves on what the object is in different languages. Setting goals and objectives really motivates ourselves in learning more on languages.

This was a really helpful video, especially the parts about mixing languages and how you handled feeling overwhelmed. I have a list of languages I'm interested in learning (or re-learning after not using for many years, in the case of French) and I was worried about becoming overwhelmed. I had made a plan the other day to add 1 hour of French 3 times a week to the 5~7 hours a week of Ukrainian I'm already doing, so I'll try out your tip to study one in the morning and the other in the evening. Now I just need to increase my discipline to actually study at the hours I plan to study. 😅

This video is very helpful thank you

I'd love to see a video where you talk about what you do to revise/maintain a language! I'm currently studying Chinese and Japanese at a tertiary education provider, but because of the way the provider structures its courses, I spend around 4 months of the year not touching one of the languages at all, and I never really learnt how one revises a language during off periods like this because this is the first time I'm learning in such an environment with such large breaks. What would you personally recommend? Watching media in Chinese and Japanese + revising how to write hanzi/kanji and its pronounciations? Thank you so much, and thank you for your videos!

Thanks for the video

You are awesome , Zoe .

I completely understand when you said that you mixed Turkish and Persian. Same happened to me with Spanish and Italian, even though I studied Italian in high school for 4 years, but as a child I watched series in Mexican Spanish and my listening skills are that I understand 80% for sure, and when I started learning Italian I was so much struggling because there so many similar words, for example bueno and buono. Then I took a course of Spanish and it was easy to learn when I knew the language so much already. I should consider learning Spanish properly and improving Italian. 😁 And I use English as a support language when learning other language, I don't think in my mother tongues when learning new language. Maybe because the grammars are too way complicated, and because I want to improve English too.

inspiring as always ❣️

Great video. You are very impressive. And I like your system. Also you have an adorable English accent. 🤭

Thank you! While there are a handnful of languages I'm interested in I've pretty much decided to narrow it down to mainly german and Spanish for now. German has been the priority for quite some time but living in south Florida I come into contact with Spanish speakers just as often as English speakers if not more often. (Granted they usually speak English anyway) but its really given me motivation to study Spanish more. Honestly I just find it difficult to balance even two so the fact that you balance 6 is very impressive and gives me hope! But I'm definitely going to use a 30 minute for Spanish as my secondary language every day. I think thats a great idea. Thanks and best of luck with your studies!!

Hey Zoe ! Thank you for your tips ! I'm a french native speaker in the begining of my academic career in european literature, and your videos are always really inspiring ; I've been learning English and German at school since my childhood, but I really improved in English at the university, and now, I'm learning Japanese. And some of your tips are really inspiring, like taking notes for learning a language in another one. As I really lost all my level in German, I'd like to pick it again, because in an european career, German is still pretty useful, especially as my current phd supervisor is in Switzerland ^^' I think I'll re-learn German via English courses or apps in order to keep my English level and start building back my knowledge in German. Thanks =)

Thanks for very helpful video, now I became your follower. Already subscribed the channel.

that's awesome. good luck

Hey Zoe! Your advice is always so helpful 🧡 I’m currently trying to learn Japanese and your tips always help me stay on track. I eventually want to learn multiple languages as well so these tips are quite helpful 🙏🏽

New subscriber. Thank you for your videos Ms Zoe 😊