【Study Vlog】How do I study languages on a busy day? (subtitles)

Loved your vlog! I’m really curious: 1. Did it take you a while to settle into this routine? 2. Have you ever had burnouts and just wanted to stop for a while? 3. What keeps you motivated to keep learning? Have you hit any plateaus?

I prioritize reading 3 books a month, one in English, one in French, one in Spanish. That's more or less, all I have time to do. But I've been doing it for years. If I can put a movie on in the original language, that's also helpful. And as I am cooking and cleaning, I listen to documentaries in those languages too. This girl puts in a lot of hours. Very impressive indeed. I would like to learn russian, but it's a question of finding the time

For those that interested to learn a new language, I would like to suggest a 15/30/15 method. So basically, 15mins review of yesterday lesson (in the morning), 30mins new lesson (after lunch), and 15 mins review of today lesson (in the evening). I had done this at least 3 days a week. Most important thing is consistency. You don't want to start on full spirit and then stop learning halfway. Change your learning material between Youtube, podcasts and books(change ur method everytime u feels boring or unmotivativated). Best wishes from me. Happy Learning !

The secret to learning languages is having fun. And you are doing it perfectly.

Whoa 4h languages per day - I totally get now how you can become so good/fluent so fast, it's really impressive and motivating to see how much work you put into studying these languages!

You are a great inspiration:virtualhug: 10 years ago I had begun to study French, Korean, German and Arabic. I thought I did pretty well, but then into my life came depression and all results turned into dust, now I'm battling my depression and trying to remember everything I knew and learn more. I wrote a schedule and decided to take international exams in 6 languages next October-December. I think your tips will help me a lot, I'll try to incorporate language learning in my daily life as succesful as you did. Hello from Ukraine:elbowcough:

I figured I'd share my study routine to maybe inspire someone like me to study a language by themselves - I am a teen in highschool, very busy (school is exausting) and besides that I have very limited time because of other activities. I study English (it's not my native language) and German in school and Korean, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese by myself. For polishing my English I don't do much honestly; almost all I watch I watch in English or with English subtitles, so that's one way of learning, I read books in English (and always highlight, translate and explain the meaning of a word I don't know) and I repeat a lot of words to polish my accent. The best thing to study English for me was to buy a Dictionary of Contemporary English and learn new words from there from time to time. I have a hard time learning German so I don't really do that out of school, but one thing I found helpful is flash cards. For Korean, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese it's kind of the same deal. I try to study each of these languages at least once a week from 0,5 to around 2 hrs. I always start by going on apps like Duolingo and doing some lessons there. When I do that, I write every single word, even if I know it already. I memorize and learn a lot by writing and re-writing stuff, so that's helpful, especially with Chinese, because I don't know many characters - I started learning it at the beginning of this year. Then I go one to watch some YouTube videos in the language I'm studying (if channels I follow didn't post anything new I just type "[language] youtubers with english subtitles" and find something suitable lol). After that I watch a show in that language on Netflix. I always watch the same episode twice, once with subtitles in English and once in subtitles in the language I'm studying. When I know I don't have time to study one (or sometimes even all) of the languages in a week, in my spare time (15 minutes should be enough) I write myself notes in that language. It can be full out essay (English), basic sentences (German, Korean & Spanish) or random words I know (Chinese). Then I go on and try to speak out loud stuff I recently learned to recap. I also listen to A LOT of music in the languages I wanna learn. At this point I'm not even listening to music in my native language lol Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk, I hope I inspired someone, sorry for any mistakes - English isn't my first language. Also remember, learning a language takes a lot of time, is a constant effort, so be patient with yourself. I'm a living example that even if you don't have much time you can still find time to study what you want a bit. Keep fighting<3

Yo she took my beaniee !! Learning 4 languages at the same time is hard and also rewarding if u can keep up the routine. Imagine seeing your futureself talking as fluently as native speaker u can only be proud of urself. Just keep up the good vibes, be grateful for every step u ve processed! Spending times isnt for everyone if they have their own priorities, same applies to me. I dunno its kinda complex in my case. Whatever just keep up spending ur time preciously :) cheers!

Your Arabic accent is really good and I was super impressed by the fact that you’re able to ready those articles, since they’re pretty advanced. Keep on going, this was really motivating for me !!

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Zoe, you are one of my absolute FAVOURITE Polyglots. I know you prefer not that term but I think you are a true polyglot, you do not delve into 20 or 30 languages at surface level you take it seriously and enjoy the process. I really appreciate and admire that. And you've inspired me so much, omg your Arabic and Persian!! OUT of this world!! I feel like giving up on Arabic. I live in iraq and plan to study in jordan for about a week long programme. But it's just too hard =( anyway, it makes German look easy!

My God , this lady is really and seriously committed to languages

I find your method very interesting, I have been struggling with french, even though I can read and understand most of it but I struggle a lot with speaking and writing but now I'm motivated to try your techniques because they seem very simple and easy and not so overwhelming. I will try to apply them in my daily routine and I will definitely give you my feedback. Also your Arabic is very good and cute 👌. You gained a New subscriber.

You honestly are the best youtube I follow! So helpful and inspiring, thank you!

Thank you Miss Zoe! I've watched all your tips and advised videos in learning languages and they all suit to me, I just wanna say that I'm happy and grateful to find your channel. Please don't stop making contents like this. Love your videos! ❤️

I appreciate your enthusiasm of learning languages!

you’re doing such a great work. That drove me so excited to work harder on my English. Keep sharing this kind of videos with us please. Good luck

Such an inspiration …….perseverance …..anything is possible!

Zoe, you are such an inspiration to so many people, thank you for Sharing your learning experience and wishing you all the best in life!

Hi, this is a really helpful video. My native language is Spanish, and my second language is English, but as you've said you never stop learning, so I practice my English everyday, however, I've been studying Japanese, and French for a few months, the problem is that I didn't know how to fit them on my schedule because I'm at college as well, and I suffer depression, so I had had really low periods of time when I barely practiced my English, and anything else. So this video is perfect for me because I'm gonna be able to focus on my learning journey on French, and Japanese, and at the same time make an equal balance between them, in that way I keep it up, and advance through it little by little without overwhelming my mind, I kind of do the same practice routine of English as the one that you do with podcasts, and articles related to the news in the language. Besides now I just have to apply them into the other two languages, you've given me the idea, Thank you so much. I aspire to be like you soon.