This video is similar to what happened to me. I was from a humble family from Syria and we left our homes because of the war. Years later, I decided to learn languages and began to improve my English in Syria, knowing that there was no internet or electricity. Every day there was an hour. Only one electricity and the rest of the day without electricity. I studied high school and decided to travel to Russia to learn the Russian language, and now I am in Finland and I am trying to learn the Finnish language and I want to study languages when enrolling in university and Thank you for this wonderful channel. I have been following you for several years, and this story inspired me very much

Your Eyes and Voice show so much Gratitude & Hard work you and your family put together for you to be here... An inspirational and out of the box thing. Proud of you and your family

This humble story motivates me to go ahead in learning languages. I'm an Ukrainian teenager who will learn five languages in the next five years. Although it's slightly challenging to live in Ukraine with the current situation, I don't give up on my learning and life. Hard work, sooner or later, will bear delicious fruit. Thank you, everybody for reading my teeny tiny comment. Best regards from Ukraine! Peace to all the world! Edited Thank you so much, guys, for your support!

I cried for this video. I'm Vietnamese, and we relatively share the same social standards and university life. I am studying for my second bachelor's degree in Hungary and planning to earn a master's in France. I am also trying to learn three foreign languages for a better career. Your video touches my soul and lightens up my path. Thank you so much, and I hope I will have a chance to meet you in France someday.

I'm a German that loves languages and often feel discouraged when I face all the difficulties that seem impossible to overcome in Korean and Chinese, but after watching your video and listening to your motivating story, I feel like I got more fuel again to keep going and push trough. So I want to say, Zoe, thank you very much for sharing your motivating and inspiring story with us or in Chinese Zoe 我想要告诉你感谢, 我觉得你很棒! I'm proud of you and your achievements. I hope my potentially insignificant comment can make it to you and that I will be able to overcome my challenges like you did. If there is any kind soul that reads this comment and would like to help me make my comment reach her, please leave a like. I wish everyone good luck on their language journey.

Your video was profoundly moving and incredibly inspiring. It stands out as the finest piece of content on your KZfaq channel. I am deeply grateful that you opened up about the hurdles you faced while adapting to life in France, from mastering a new language to navigating your academic pursuits. The depth of your love for your family in China resonated strongly throughout your narrative. Thank you for letting us into your world, Zoe.

inspirational truly. world is definitely a better place with people like u in it.

I am learning my fourth language. Thank you for sharing your story! You always inspire me. Mindset is everything.❤❤🙏

你很棒，加油，被你真诚描述的经历深深的触动，我现在在日本生活，同样感同身受，面临语言不通的问题，好在日语里有大量汉字，生活方面问题还不大，经历了艰难的两年，感觉慢慢适应了，我面临的是创业压力，跟你当时面临的问题可以不一样，也很难，语言也是一大难题，被你的视频鼓舞，没有退路可言，只有坚持这条路，付出十倍的努力，谢谢你的分享！共勉！

Zoe, you are absolutely incredible. Congratulations on everything you have achieved. As an only child who is also living abroad and trying to create a life for myself in a language different from my own, I can see the blood, sweat, and tears you have shed to fight for your dream. I am in awe of and inspired by your life and I thank you for sharing your story with us.

I love this, what really struck me is hearing you speak about supportive and loving parents...I strive for that relationship with my girls in the future, where I hope they feel they have a friend in me as a parent.

I have listened to your story on your Chinese channel and I am glad that you posted a video about it here as well, with much more different details. I felt so moved by your emotions and noticed your eyes almost in tears at some points. Thank you so much for taking courage and sharing your story. Thank you for showing us what has been behind the scenes, the difficulties you have been through. Your "weaknesses" and how you overcome difficulties help people relate more to you and even find solutions and encouragement for their lives. Personally, I would like to hear more stories from your life about anything, especially how did you overcome certain challenges. I would also like to know how do you prepare for an exam (ex. Study methods, routines), how to heal from burnout, what are your future plans after completing your PhD. I would also love to see your daily routine videos of different day sequences. By the way, there was such a video on your channel, but now is unavailable and I am so sorry. Everytime I feel unmotivated, watching your routine gives me a fresh motivation. I have been through my last BA year with a lot of inspiration taken from you. Maybe in one video you would like to share with us how your teacher life and goals look like. To be a teacher suits you so well. I would love to hear more about Zoe the teacher and maybe you can share more books and journals you have read and even articles you published. I know this message is quite long, but I am very enthusiastic about this video and your openness. I wish you all the best with your exams and presentation and hope to hear from you soon. Lady A.

You are a true inspiration to those who have dreams and are fearful in pursuing them! Bravo!🙏👍❤️😊

I am really very proud of you. Your story encouraged me after I was about to lose hope. Let's work hard and encourage each other. Thank you Zoe. ❤❤❤

when you kept saying i have achieved my dreams and is the person who I wished to be, i'm so happy and proud of you. Such a resilient and hard working woman, you truly show its all possible!

Love this! I study Chinese at university as an adult just because I love languages. It is unusual and I have different struggles and pressures than my classmates. I am the same age as my professors and sometimes I feel embarrassed that they have important careers and I don't. But mostly I feel so lucky to have the time to study while also doing my time-flexible job. One of my much younger classmates said "wow. I guess you really can change your whole life even when you are old!" So I felt proud and glad he learned that from my experience. 😂 我刚刚认识到应该练习中文写这篇文章。”篇文章”我刚刚学习这个新词。

I have seen your emotions from eyes to be nearly filling with tears which come from happiness, totally understandable this feeling because of being in this condition before. Congratulations for your achievements which are truly having sacrifice

Hello Zoe, through these words I want to congratulate you for all your achievements and wish you all the best for the future, you are a great inspiration for me, at 40 years old I decided to start studying English and I have been watching your videos daily for months now, I would like to achieve an intermediate level of English in the future, although I know the road is long, but as you say, this is not a race, it is like a marathon. I send you a kiss from Uruguay and many successes for your future, you have our support as subscribers of your channel, thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with all of us. Greetings

A very emotional story zoe. I really loved hearing the challenges you overcome to become who you are.I could feel the pain in your voice when you were saying your health became poor because of over work. A good decision to reduce your workload and pay for health. Regarding study abroad, even I gave up my dream for study abroad seeing tuition fees in US. It is only after I got know about tuition fees in Europe that fulfilled my dream.And yes it comes with the caveat of learning the local language.And from struggling to learn French you have now become a polygot.So proud of you!!!

Thank you for this very moving video! I started my French language lessons about 3 years ago, and I truly appreciate how hard you have worked. I had a similar experience to yours when I studied in Germany. I became fluent in German by immersing myself in all kinds of activities when I wasn't in class. It was so painful but satisfying. Now that I'm in my 70's, and learning French, I am having so many memories of those earlier struggles. Your videos inspire me to persevere!

Such a bold resilience, a tender radiance to your story, Zoe. A woman in the world and a world in the woman. It's impossible to glimpse this road you've traveled and not jump up from my seat and yell, Bravo, Zoe! Bravo!

always come back to your channel whenever I feel that I'm losing my motivation

Love your story! Your journey is so inspirational. Best video you posted so far!

Thank you for sharing your journey Zoe! I’m always curious to know how people end up abroad and what their motivations are. You’re one of my favorite language learners to learn from because of the fact that your achievements started from the bottom and you’re a normal person who wanted to learn other languages. I’m the same in that I also want to live abroad and be fluent in several languages. Right now that’s French, Korean and Mandarin. Everyone let’s keep working hard 💪🏼

Thankyou . This was better than listening 100 motivation videos .

讲到自己的艰辛，你动情了...I was inspired and motivated and shared your video with my daughter. Appreciate your sharing.

Dein Englisch ist eine Wohltat für meine deutschen Ohren. Ich habe alles verstanden, ohne mich groß anstrengen zu müssen. Vielen Dank für das tolle Video. LG

Hi Zoe, I have only just came across your channel, glad I decided to check it out, I actually watched the whole session of this vlog and found what you shared is so inspiring. Thankyou for making this video it means a lot to me, I was struggling to decide whether I should pursue a course that I’ve been interested in for years. Now I know what to do thanks to this vlog you have shared.

Thank you for sharing. Reminds me of my experience in the US military. I worked 12-16 hour days, six days a week. My mental and physical health was declining and it was not worth my health, so I left. :)

So proud of you as a Chinese here in the US. Your story is so inspiring. I’ve been learning Farsi since last year and I absolutely enjoyed this beautiful language and its rich culture. I am planning to study Arabic this year. I am sure I will do great as well. Thank you for sharing your story.

Your story and your challenges have been incredibly inspiring. I sincerely congratulate you for staying strong in the face of adversity and developing solutions. Thank you for sharing your story so openly and sincerely. ❤

so inspiring!!! I come from a regular family as well and they have a fixed mindset, even now. my mom and dad couldn't effort for me to have a higher study so I have worked so hard, no party, no shopping at all just to save up and pursue my dream which is studying abroad and see how big the world is. Now I'm nearly there and I feel like age and your background cannot stop you no matter what. thank you for your wonderful sharing. love

More power to you, Zoe, thanks for sharing your story. You've achieved so much academically and in the languages sphere - your parents must be very proud of you. I speak reasonably good French which I learned immersively while travelling there often. I'm on my fourth year of learning Mandarin and I love how efficient and logical a language it is 🀄️🤩🎷

inspirante! What a refreshing approach to language learning! Instead of feeling overwhelmed by grammar rules and vocabulary lists, this vlog makes it feel natural and enjoyable. Plus, with Immersive Translate, I can explore Spanish content online with ease, reinforcing what I've learned in the vlog. Can't wait to see where this journey takes me!

Thank you so much for sharing this video with us. It is very inspiring to see there are people like you in this world who are always looking to learn the beautiful side of things. I hope to meet you in person one day. 2 thumbs up from Canada.

Thank you for every word. I'm crying. You're like my beginning. You're my superhero ❤

This is truly motivational for someone like myself who has only recently started taking my language learning journey seriously.

Zoe, I love your life story, I think you are an example of life for many people. Your perseverance, mental strength and love for what you do is a great inspiration to never give up on my goals.

Congratulations Zoe, your channel is amazing! 🔥非常鼓舞人心!

Now I'm much more proud of you Zoe. This video was like a fillip to me.Mach bitte diese Videos mehr . 😍

I just started learning mandarin I came across the same video on your Chinese channel recently. I was so sad I couldn’t understand much. You can only imagine my happiness when I saw this video in English today! Your story is so inspiring Zoe and as someone that shares some languages (English, Persian and Arabic) I really hope we bump into each other some day (I live in London lol). 加油!!

满含热泪的看完了up的故事，之前在b站就关注了up，在KZfaq看到up果断关注了，感觉我和up的很多想法都很像，只不过我目前的人生阶段停留在有出国读书的想法，但是并没有更深层次的了解，只停留在觉得好像外面的世界更大，更好。从小县城到北京读书的过程中，我感觉到了那种带着疼痛的成长，高敏感人群在大城市感觉压力很大，但是也伴随着压力成长了很多。目前在跟着up的建议学习法语，告诉自己不要着急看到成果，先坚持下来再说，希望等我攒够钱，学会了语言，可以一步一步越来越靠近自己喜欢的up！（最后up主太美了，是那种光看着她说几十分钟话都会觉得赏心悦目的程度，太喜欢了！）

You are a wonderful person, thanks for your company

Thanks for sharing your life experience, it’s really inspiring. I have learned a lot from the way you think. I wish you the best. 😊

Thank you Zoe for describing your experience. I am older but we share a similar journey and you give me motivation to keep learning and being curious and active in a difficult time in my life. And what you said about work culture in China ...I can confirm everything! I am Italian but my first real job was in China so let's say I received the baptism of fire lol!

As a 19-years-old girl who still trying to figure it out thank u for inspiring me to start learning languages I really love my language-learning journey and wanna be a polyglot

I want to hug you because you didn't give up. Thank you for staying strong all these years.

Salut Zoé, J'espère que vous savez à quel point vous nous avez tellement inspiré et impressionné en partageant votre parcours. Apprendre une nouvelle langue et culture n'est sûrement pas facile, mais vous n'avez jamais jeté l'éponge. À la place, vous avez décidé de ne pas renoncer au défi et continué de faire des efforts pour atteindre vos objectifs linguistiques. Merci de nous avoir prouvé qu'il est possible de vivre à l’étranger et de mener une vie dont on rêve !

Thank you for sharing your story! I can understand you, because my parents come from Vietnam, but i was born in Europe. So, i had a better start than you though, because i learned different values in Europe from the very start of my life, still my parent‘s mindset kind of held me back in my development in comparison to,other people here - so i can imagine, how many burdens you have put behind you on your way. Congratulations for that! 🥳 You are very inspiring. Also i am glad that you‘ve mentioned how long it took you to reach a proficient level in Arabic. I love the culture and the language, but it really broke my self-esteem. I started over and over again, but it won’t stick to my head. If you say that after one year it was still not enough, i feel relieved that I am not dumb. Again congratulations for having reached your goals. You are a beautiful example for a cosmopolitan from the old world. Classy, educated and refined. 😊

Your story is so inspirational as well as your positivity through it all. I haven’t found many videos that talk about the part of moving to new country that is really lonely and isolating when you can’t express yourself well in a language. I also moved to France/Mayotte and have found my confidence has tanked from not being able to make friends or to express myself at work in the same manner as before. Thank you so much for sharing your story

I watched the video and found it very inspiring. I see you as my leader.

Your life path is very impressive to make come true what your latent dream had been embedded in your subconsciousness. What a interesting life story from a ground zero in your birth place ! I Wish your prosperity and god-blessing in the future.

Dear and esteemed Zoe, there's a sharpness in your vision, unlike others. The light that shines distinctively in your eyes is exactly called determination and tenacity. That's why, today you made it and all of us (notably me) happy and glad on your behalf. We had seen the importance of the family anyway, give your child just a spark and watch the flames of success... May your parents live in a bed of roses :) *(Thanks for sharing your background with us via this video inter alia)*

Zoeeeeeeeeee don't cry! of course this video motivated us to not give up on our dreams!!! we're so proud of you and thanks for your powerful words! we have to be our best friend ourselves

This was such a touching story, thank you SO much for sharing it. I also have a love for languages and I started with Chinese :). It has been officially 3 years and I still struggle with holding a conversation with Chinese people. I am familiar with a good decent amount of characters and I do immerse heavily on watching Chinese dramas/movies in order to acquire the language better. There have been times that I just want to quit but I realize that I have come far in this language. I may not be where I want to be but I am not where I was, so that keeps me going. I have invested so much time trying to learn Chinese that I cannot go back, nor do I want too. I also have been studying Persian, Arabic, Russian, Thai, and a small fragment of Japanese, and I took up German for college this coming fall, because they did not have Chinese so I went with German. I did German last year and failed miserably because I did not put enough time to study due to work (which requires long hours of sitting down, sedentary job) and having one kid, a single mom, so it was SO very hard for me and challenging. How do you manage to study all of those languages, go to school, work and actually achieve that level of proficiency? It's so amazing. I am very inspired by your video, and I hope that one day I will get to that level in the other languages that I am currently learning. Thank you for sharing your video, it was truly the highlight of my day.

Hi Zoe, thanks for your sharing and you said many Chinese students experienced. Very happy that you find your way and maybe encourage lost of Chinese students to dare to change their life, thank you!

Your story really motivated me. I am just a small girl and I am finishing my O level. My motherland is Bangladesh 🇧🇩where Bangla is spoken . So I can speak Bangla, Hindi/Urdu.But I learned English, Arabic, and now I am trying to learn Persian / Iranian, Turkish as well. Because I want to feel the taste of Persian poetry which so beautiful. You said that you travelled the Middle East, so I would love to hear your experience in Iran and Turkey, how they interact with each other and so on. Thank you so much for sharing your great achievement ever in life. May Allah bless you and grant you a peaceful prosperous life as well as your family

Zoe your channel is amazing and we are grateful for sharing your knowledge and story ; it's very inspiring and touching I wish you more luck and success 💖

Zoe, your story is inspiring!

Thank you very much. You are an inspiration.

Congrats! Your are incredible! We can learn a lot with your videos! Thank you!

😊 MashAllah la Quata illah billah. You have been gifted. Thank you for sharing your experience.😊

I really admire your journey. Really look up to you as how I want to become to be able to speak multi languages which I like. Thank you very much!

Your Story is Amazing! Thank You, Zoe, for Sharing!

Merci d'avoir partagé ton histoire. You’re an amazing and inspiring person! 🙌💛🌻

I am over 40 and taking a master course in a field that different from my past working experience and study. Your story of learning French encourages me. Wonderful parents you have btw.

Mais quelle merveilleuse énergie tu dégages, Zoe ! Quelle force de travail ! Nous en France, nous avons une image des Chinois très travailleurs et qui apprennent vite. J'ai vu un reportage sur les écoles en Chine, c'est un autre monde ! Mais je vois aussi que partout dans le monde, quel que soit le pays, on se démarque de la masse dès qu'on veut se créer notre propre vie, sortir du chemin tracé par la société (maison, enfants...) Bravo en tout cas, ton parcours est inspirant, et bravo pour ta maîtrise des langues !

Me siento muy identificada contigo, te escucho y es como escucharme a mi misma en esos deseos de conocer otras culturas y de cuestionarnos lo diferentes que somos según cada cultura aún viviendo todos en un mismo planeta jeje me encanta tu historia! Muchas veces me he sentido desanimada al igual que tú y he pensado si todos mis esfuerzos tienen sentido en seguir preparándome, estudiando, formándome y escuchar tu historia hacer que no quieras parar que no quiera rendirme si no a seguir a pesar de que se ponga difícil. Un abrazo!!!❤

I loved this video, I really did. Greetings from Spain, Zoe. I'm looking forward next video.

Old Europe give you a warm welcome we are proud of having you ,also a big thanks to China for the gift sent to us,smart,strong,perseverent,wise,I like the light in your eyes,I think come from your soul,i hope one day you will visit Romania ,where Brâncuși has found his inspirațional sources 😊💐

Man...stumbled across your arabic video today, then watched this....if I'm this proud of you, your family must be bursting with pride

You are an inspiration Zoe 🎉🎉. Keep moving.

Je viens du Vietnam et ce que je me passais est exactement comme elle. Maintenant, je suis en train d'essayer de pratiquer pour apprendre de nouvelles langues et autre chose significative dans ma vie. Merci infiniment pour la vidéo incroyablement motivante, Zoe!

Zoe, you are very strong , proud of you 👏 ❤

Very inspiring story of personal development! I'm a retired teacher from Hangzhou, China. I've subscribed to your channel.

Thank you Zoe. You've reenforced my willingness to go to France and pursue another master degree of art. Yes, starting to learn everything from scratch, learning french and art history. But it's just the process that you've got to work on and it's a key to a bright future. Thank you so much!

15:21 15:51 the heaviness in ur voice at this point really tells us How much that small achievement of having highest score in ur class matters in your journey/life Thats really boosted your confidence 👍 Your story is really inspirational Thanks for sharing ❤

Your story is very motivating and shows how hard work and perseverance can go far.

I felt lost and didn't know where or how to continue my studies but after watching this video, it inspired me so much. I'm truly thankful to you from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you for sharing your journey, Zoe. It's very inspiring. I can see myself going through a similar journey as yours. I too have aspirations to work overseas, but I doubt myself because I haven't seen anyone else who feels the need to go overseas. Through your eyes, I can see how grateful you are to bet on yourself, and I want to do the same.

Bravo Zoe pour votre parcours, votre ténacité est un exemple pour beaucoup qui souhaitent réussir dans leurs études ou dans leur projet professionnel.

Your personal story is so inspiring. So amazing of what a person can actually achieve in life through preserverence and resillience over life diffficulties. Thanks for sharing 🙏

Very beautiful to see your emotion talking about your parents and your struggles in France. Very inspiring and touching vídeo. In my opinion, It's yours best ever. 谢谢你 #changedestiny

I'm so moved...Thank you for your story Zoe, thank you for your energy. I'm so motivated!

BEST VIDEO EVER ZOE!!!!! Ich meine es, wirklich!!!

Beautiful and so inspiring story, I hope one day have my one I appreciate that you shared your story with us

I am myself a 6-language speaker and found your personal journey to success so inspiring! Thank you so much for sharing

thanks for being so relatable, i admire your energetic and magnetic aura

Thank you for sharing, your experience and challenges. They're really inspiring.

After watching this video, you inspired me to work harder for my dreams. I was emotional when you mentioned your hard time in a foreign country to study because I was once in a similar situation but in another city and it was so hard I know. I feel like you and I are kinda similar, after graduating I outgrew some of the friends from uni because our interests are not aligned anymore. I also love to learn new languages, right now I speak 4 languages but I'm going to try new languages in the future. My dream is to study abroad one day and study about their cultures.

Thank you very much Zoe for this video, it's really inspiring❤

I was searching for some tips on your channel, this video goes beyond all the tips you’ve shared in your channel so far. Such an inspirational and motivating story! 🤩🤩🤩 Thank you for sharing it.

Such a good and inspiring video! It was really interesting to learn more about your story. I hope you will share much more with us, and I wish everyone success in their language learning journey 😊

bien tomber, je l'ai vu quand j'en avais besoin, merci d'avoir partagé votre histoire. bon courage.🤞🧡

You deserve all the best zoe❤✨✨ Congratulations 🎉🎉You've been such an inspiration for me these years ✨ Thanks to you , I won't stop aiming high ❤️. We all love you so much ,so, go get that PhD girl 🩷✨🌸!

Hello, Zoe! It would be really nice to see videos about books you read on your channel. E.g. what you've read in French before coming there, what books you've loved, which ones have influenced you. It is an extremely interesting topic! Hope, you'll consider making such videos

You are a lovely person Zoe. Thank you for sharing your story, it was inspiring. I wish you all the best and even greater success in achieving your goals and dreams!

Zoe we all love you so much, thanks you , all the best for you , right now I’m trying to improve my English language,I’m a native Arabic ,your videos help me more 💚

I greatly appreciate your qualities of gratefulness, determination, belief, and hard work. Your story is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

I found your video on learning French accidentally and I really liked it because your tips were actually really good. I checked some of the resources you recommended and they turned out to be very helpful for self-learners. I'm usually very skeptical about youtubers who claim to speak many languages because many of them often haven't even reached fluency in any of them. Some of those "KZfaq polyglots" actually speak many languages but were spoon-fed the knowledge by private tutors and so their advice is useless. But your channel is not one of these. I find your channel very inspiring! I speak two languages fluently and two languages rather poorly (German, French). Thanks to you I have made myself a challenge to reach fluency in those two as well! Speaking 4 languages fluently seemed to me like an impossible challenge previously, thank you for letting me know that with hard work it is possible. You spoke of your studies in some previous videos and I was actually wondering what's the exact field you are in. I even once tried to google any of the research papers you wrote but I failed. I would be interested in learning more about your research, unless you find this too intruding on your personal/professional life. I really liked the last part of the video about the growth mindset. Thanks for sharing your story, it's very motivating. Cheers.