hi everyone
welcome to our channel if you are new here I'm Zoe
i'm Mahya i'm a phd student in sociology in France at the same time
I'm a youtuber
part time youtuber
and I'm a polyglod who speaks seven languages I speak English
French Arabic Persian
Turkish German
Chinese, my mother tongue, every time you forget chinese
I'm chinese by the way
and I'm Mahya I'm from Iran I'm twenty two
I've just graduated from China
I studied economics and trade there
and I'm a polygot and a language coach
and I can speak in 9 languages
I have six common languages with Zoe
French
Persian Arabic English
Turkish and Chinese
and I speak also Russian and Italian
If you guys have watched our first video six months ago yeah
I think we got almost
three million
no two point seven million until today
thank you guys we are gonna hit three million
thank you guys
and we got your comments
thank you for your support and thank you for your love
so in this video what we want to show is after six months
we met each other again
and she came all over from France to Turkey
so that we can make a video again
France, Iran then Turkey
because we saw that you guys were really interested
to know how we studied different languages
so we decided to make a new video to explain to you guys
what we do exactly
to be able to
improve in these languages yes
during this past six month
what we have done and you guys can see our improvements
whether we improve or not let us know you guys gonna judge
if we have progress in some languages or not so now
let's get into the video
Turkish
Conglatulations
Why
Because you have improved a lot in Turkish
Thank you
You just posted a video in Turkish, right?
Yes
I watched it and liked it, because congratulations
you have improved a lot
Do you remember
Our Turkish was very little in the old video
so so little
Only "very good", " hello", "thank you", "I like it"
Because I studied only Turkish for 4 months
What did you do?
4 months ago
I signed up for Turkish class I studied A1 for 2 months and studied A2 for 2 months
and went to the course for 2 hours every weekday
5 days a week?
Yes, during the week.
My teacher is Turkish
so we only speak Turkish in class
I watched a Turkish series
this series is ridiculous, but it's called "you knock my door"
I just watch it because I want to practice Turkish then
I read a very easy book for children
I read a book for children
and talked to my friends on the street
and learned Turkish in this way
Very nice
And you, what have you done?
I have done nothing, no no
I wanted to study more Turkish
but I didn't have time
because I had a lot of work. A lot of languages
But I am currently learning and studying with a Turkish teacher every week.
I am using this book istanbul B1.
A very good book
Very nice, but very difficult
To be honest, at first, when I started learning Turkish
I thought that Turkish was not very difficult
but now because I am at intermediate level
it became very difficult
it became very difficult. You know what?
I have a hard time making long sentences in Turkish.
Yes yes Turkish words are too long and spelling is very difficult.
I think Turkish is more difficult than Persian
Inshallah slowly
Good luck
Come on Arabic
What did you do during this time Zoe?
Honestly I don’t feel like I have improved much in Arabic.
I’m just trying to keep my level
because I feel
I always study, for example I watch
videos or I read
But honestly in the intermediate and advanced levels
it’s hard to see the obvious progress
difficult, yes
I still, even if I don’t have much time every day because at the same time
You study,you work, you have youtube
youtube and I travel
7 languages
A lot of works
In order to keep my level
I read news every morning
oh nice
even when I don’t have time , even for only ten minutes
okay I read
When I read the news sometimes there are new words
like political words,economics words . It’s really useful.
there is another exercise that I really like, it is listening to podcasts
You know I travel a lot
when I’m travelling by train or airplane,I always listen to podcasts in Arabic
I’m just trying to keep my level.
How about you ?
Me too ,like you
if we are in
A1or A2 level
we need to study a lot and work hard we need to memorize words and grammar
but when we arrive to
B1 and B2 level or C1
we arrive to a level that
I always tell my students we have to enjoy the language
after all the hardships and studying
when we reach an advanced level
we have to enjoy it.
We can talk to people, watch movies,read books, so now about my Arabic
I don’t want to say that it’s over, my Arabic is perfect it’s good
no never! It’s never like that , but I tell my self that
now I don’t have much time
I need to study other languages, I have Turkish I need to improve that
I don’t have time
for this reason I just enjoy what I have learned
and I use the language in my life for example I talk to my Arab friends
I want films, l read books I watch YouTube
I listen to podcast
like this at least
if my level doesn’t improve it doesn’t get worse
I agree with you
Chinese
I haven't made any progress in my Chinese
Because this is my native language
Hahaha have you made any progress?
I have written my thesis
Is it all written in Chinese?
Yes! Really?
60,000 words
Really?
Amazing!
Very difficult!
Really difficult!
Did you make a lot of progress after you finished writing your thesis?
Uh, I really didn't know how to write
papers and articles
But in the process of writing the thesis
I slowly learned how to write articles.
Have you defended your thesis?
Yes, I defended and got full marks.
congratulations
admire
Undergraduate thesis written in Chinese
60,000 words. This friend is amazing hahaha
Written also about a brand in Iran
What is it?
Very difficult, Snapp
Oh Snapp do you know
of course I know I used it when I was in Iran
Snapp (Uber in Iran)
It's a bit difficult because there aren't many articles written in Chinese
So I have to translate from Persian to Chinese
So at the same time you have to write the paper
Do research and then translate
It's really a hard job
But I think, in my case
Because I wrote my master's thesis in French
I feel that after I finish writing my thesis
My language has really improved a lot
yes because you need to read a lot
Then you need to use a lot of vocabulary
Then you need to modify
write it yourself
so
congrats! Thank you!
you know
During the thesis defense, teachers
I thought they would ask me questions about the content
But they also asked what the words meant.
Because they want to know if you wrote it yourself
or found it somewhere else
So I didn't expect him to ask me the meaning of a word
Then I was feel like...
But you can get full marks
Farsi
Hey guys!
Hi guys today I’m really happy to show my improvement in Persian to you
I take a rest in this part! Take a rest
take a rest
ok you know I love Persian language so much and I love Iran so much
that’s why in one year I went to Iran three times
guys she sent to Iran three times
I am an Iranian and I have never been to Iran three times a year
How was it?
It was really good, perfect.
Where did you go?
I went to Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan , Kerman
and Tabriz
that’s it
I wanted to go to Yazd
but it’s too hot in summer
but I want to go there in winter
Zoe where are you?
I am in Iran
South of Iran is really good in winter.
Great
Did you practice your Persian ?
Yes, but to be honest
when I
the first and second time I went to Iran
only to take pictures and videos
I didn’t have much time to practice
I just practice some basic words like, excuse me, how much is this.
like this
It was enough
When I returned to France, there I took classes with an Iranian teacher
two sessions per week
at least two sessions per week
That’s great
That’s why you have improved a lot since the last video we took six months ago.
Congratulations
Thank you thank you
Last time I went to Iran
I stayed in Tehran with my friends family
I practiced a lot and
I found new friends
because now I speak Persian better
when I took Snapp (Iranian Uber)
I talked to the driver in Persian a lot
because they were surprised
How can I speak Farsi
it was really good
because they always ask me
How is everything in France or China.
Very good
Wonderful
Really good
In fact, we do not have a specific topic
Actually, our first video, there are many comments
the french people say "well done girls"
Thank you very much for the energy and kindness
That's nice, did you read any comments or not?
Yes, you know, when I was writing my thesisire
I was very tired
it was in Chinese
it was very difficult for me and I couldn't study other languages
because I didn't have time, so at that time
I was really sad and I cried every day, how can I study all these languages
one day I decided to stop all this, all these languages
that's enough
yes
my father told me to look at the comments and read the comments
so I looked at the comments and I read the comments
I remembered
why I'm doing what I'm doing now
so I think
you know in the comments I read that we have inspired a lot of people
but also you
you inspire us, and encourage us
I prefer to say, we accompany and encourage each other
exactly, we are together in this language learning journey
we thank you very much friends
me too
I have a little story
I met a girl
She is iranian, in Tehran
She wrote to me on Instagram because
She speaks French and English as well
She wrote to me
Is it possible to meet up?
like this, we have met
She told me that she has watched all my videos on my channel
She was very inspired by the video we made together
She said one thing
She works, it's someone who has work, she is just interested by language
She said that
Thank for that video
why
video video, why I have an Iranian accent?
Thanks for that video
I feel encouraged
to continue to learn the language
then she said that you have inspired me a lot
when she saw my video and she said that "when I think... "
"if you can do it, if you can become a polyglot"
"me too, i can do it"
it's good to see that we are influencing people
in a positive way
We have to be realistic as well, that's why we want to make this video to show you
if we have progressed or we haven't progress
Even we have progressed we won't just say that because we are
talented
not at all, because we love it
because we always continue, because we have studied a lot
because we have invested a lot of time and energy
we are here to tell you the reality
for exemple, I told you
I cried one day I wanted to stop because it's so difficult, it's the reality
it's true that we "ku"
"ku" is in which language?
I say in Chinese "ku"
to cry
it's true that we mix up languages sometimes
It's true that we cry
It's true that we are tired
but
it dosen't mean that we will stop
Never, never give up, stay strong
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