How I Learned 7+ Languages! 🌎 - My Polyglot Story 

Nice! I speak English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. I'm learning Korean and Polish! That's great that you were able to reach conversational levels in all those languages (:

nice: I speak English, Spanish, and Korean. I'm learning French and Japanese at the same time

My native language is English and I've been teaching myself/studying Spanish everyday since May (studied some Spanish in high school 8 yrs ago) always wanted to be fluent in Spanish:) I should be fluent before the year is over with:) and I'm slowly learning Arabic, such a beautiful language and my friend speaks it and she's helping me with the basics so far. I want to also learn Portuguese, Italian, German, French and whatever else I fall in love with. I honestly enjoy learning a language! It's great for communicating with others and I love to travel abroad:) Loved your video! Keep learning more languages, it's so unique and different from everyone else.

I have to say you fall in love a lot. I know english, french, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese, but I want to learn Italian and German as well.

I'm a Malaysian so I grew up speaking multiple languages: Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Hokkien (Taiwanese). But I am an opera pianist, so I'm learning Italian right now, and hopefully French and German next!

I speak English, Spanish, and now I am learning German. I was born in USA so English was my first language. My father is Peruvian so my family only spoke to me in Spanish, that I how I learned. My mother is German and I moved in with her, here in Germany, so I can attend university here and now I must learn German. After I perfect my German I would love to learn Korean bc I love the culture :)

I speak Spanish, English, Italian and currently learning Japanese.

Serbian gal here🙋‍♀️When u said ur bff in primary school was Serbian , I got so excited.I thought u knew Serbian.I was wrong,but I can see how passionate u are in learning languages ,so maybe one day...🤷‍♀️😊

Keep up the good work.!

i don't call myself a polyglot. i speak 2 languages fluently. Spanish and English. i speak 2 well but not fluently, French and Portuguese. I'm learning 2 om which my level is almost beginner. german and polish. I know how to read Cyrillic. but i don't speak any Cyrillic language. but my plams are to learm Russian, Slovene, Hebrew and maybe Turkish or Romanian. but that's after i learn polish.

Leuke video! Heb er veel van geleerd en vind hem erg leuk. Eigenlijk best te doen om zoiets te doen. Volgens mij een kwestie van veel tijd en oefenen samen met mensen om je heen. Het lijkt vrij haalbaar wat ze heeft gedaan en ook mogelijk voor andere mensen. Dat vind ik heel leuk om te zien. Verder vind ik het een goed idee om de video te filmen in de natuur en om het kort te houden. Dat maakt het krachtig. Het wordt leuk verteld en duidelijk en het klinkt als of het voor meer mensen mogelijk is en dat maakt het heel sterk en ook dat het bij mensen bij blijft.

Hi I’m Adam and my parents are Tunisian . I was born and raised in Australia so I speak English and also my parents speak to me in Arabic and I am learning French at high school because my parents speak French because Tunisia is a francophonie country, I’m recently starting to learn Italian , my mother is also fluent in Italian, practically all her neighbours in Tunisia were Sicilian. I also started to learn Japanese but i put it on hold to concentrate on French more as I’m going into ATAR next year. After my Italian becomes relatively good and I am fully fluent in French i will start Spanish and focus a lot of Japanese as well. Also soon going to start learning Tuareg a language spoken by the berbers in North Africa. After I learn Spanish fluently I want to start Portuguese (Brazilian). Also i studied some Korean, Russian. Hebrew, Greek (I always have a faze where I am interested in a language and want to learn it but end up losing interest)

Thanks so much. This Polyglot idea changed my life so much. Language is simply a key to soooo many things. It pushed me to an extend İ couldnt dream of before. And just by the way İ even learnt to love my native language German, which I didnt before.

I'm a native English speaker, but I'm learning biblical Greek, french, and spoken mandarin.

This is an incredible video. Thank you

Since 7 years old, i can speak 3 languages( english,filipino,hiligaynon) and when i was thirteen i studied korean but im not fluent at it, i can just read sentences but not so fast. Now Im 14 and Im studying Spanish. They say start early if you want to learn languages so yeah.. Just be patient

Great story! It's always nice to hear the background from other polyglots as well :-) You go girl!

I've fallen in love with you even though I'm gay this is how charming you are, you go girl!!

Cik superīgi! Man patīk redzēt cilvēkus no Latvijas, kuri arī mācās valodas. I also love learning languages, last year I realized that I know a couple languages, and I want to learn some more. So, now I am 15, and I already speak 7 languages and I plan to learn at least 10. Good luck learning languages! Sveicieni no Floridas :)

I speak English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and I can communicate in German and Italian too. I would like to continue with Russian and Korean ;)

Heeey Lina, great video! I'm from Brazil and I'm also a language enthusiast. I learned English by myself when I was 15-16, at highschool I learned Spanish and now I'm in University learning French. The reason why I enjoy learning languages is that, much like yourself, I love to communicate. I realized that if I somehow used the language I was learning, either meeting new people or reading, or making effort to speak it, I could make progress very quickly. Even if one day I start learning a language that has no apparent nor logical reason for me to learn it, I wouldn't quit it because it's something that makes me happy. Keep making great videos about language learning :)

you're really inspiring! i speak Arabic, French, English and Italian. i'm now learning German and i find it harder than the others but maybe it is because i just started it 10 days ago.

This is the trippiest thing ever for me to hear your Australian accent because I just came from your porque eu aprendi pt video 😂 100% agree on the part you said about communication (And ok mad respect for you having watched Love Hina haha). I speak English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and am learning Japanese, Italian, and French atm. Respect to all my fellow language learners out there, y'all know what's up!!!!!! 🙌 I truly believe that by learning how to speak languages other than your native language, you're helping to make the world a better place because you're creating more pathways to connect with others and share your loooveee 💚💙💛

No final lança um tchau! Que jeito lindo de ser! I loved too much seeing more about Lina's life experiences in this video, specially her charisma.

Wow you are freaking amazing! I could never teach myself, though I really don't have trouble memorizing everything, I just don't think I could do it on my own. My native language is German, I was really happy when you said you speak German. I've been learning English since first grade, so for eleven years now and I watch so much English RU-vid that sometimes I can't even express myself in German anymore xD In sixth grade we all had to start French, and pretty much everyone hated it, but I really liked it, but stopped after tenth grade, because I would have had to many lessons. I already forgot so much and it really upsets me. I need to start practicing so I don't forget the rest! Also, in eighth grade I picked up Spanish, it's my favorite language so far! There are just too many languages I would like to learn, but the ones I want to learn most are Portuguese and Irish.

Mother tongue: English I am at B1 in French, Spanish, and German. I have a tendency to hop around with languages. I have done Italian and Russian as well. And, I am working on Arabic and Turkish. For when you start Arabic, I recommend the Mastering Arabic series.

What a beautiful place! I speak Portuguese as my native tongue, English and a learning German

Congratulations! I'm studying English now, and listening you are so helpful...

Lina, I've been following your work since the Polyglot Conference, Keep up the good work. I speak English, Spanish and Portuguese at a native level, and Italian and French as a second lang

Cool story! I currently only speak English and I am learning Spanish because I love the culture and want to move to Barcelona next year. In the future I want to learn French, Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic. I think it would be so fun to travel around the world meeting new people and living in new and exciting countries.

im AMAZED

I just found your channel. This is a beautiful story. I grew up speaking English (of course) and Afrikaans. I've been learning Spanish but wish to learn more. Thanks for sharing

Congrats, your english has a clean sound. I understand almost everything words you said! I'm a student of english yet.

Hmm... my mother tongue is Spanish and I was learning French at the point that I surpassed my English level, but I gave up to continue the learning. Now I'm learning Russian and I love it so much. 😋

Привет! Я - русская, и, так как ты учишь русский, то я оставлю свой комментарий именно на этом языке. 1. Я знаю английский, так как я учила его в школе. 2. Французский. Однажды я увидела телеканал TV5Monde и влюбилась в этот язык. 3. Испанский. Я познакомилась с испанцами, когда ездила во Францию изучать французский язык. 4. Португальский. Я познакомилась с бразильцами во Франции. 5. Итальянский. Я ездила на круизном корабле, на котором было много итальянцев и я постоянно слушала итальянскую речь. Итальянский язык я выучила совсем недавно, и твои видео меня к этому вдохновили и подтолкнули. Спасибо тебе!

Damn... I call myself a language lover, but in fact the only foreign language I can speak fluently is English. I'm currently learning Spanish and Romanian and I think I've reached level A2 in both, I also used to know German on a decent level, but now I'm not even sure I can hold a conversation in it. I also know the basics of Dutch. I used to be proud of it, but now I see it's not enough, I need to work more on my language skills! You're definitely so hardworking, you're a great example of how much I can achieve if I start working harder. Best of luck to you, you're amazing!

I watched you talking with Gabriel Poliglota and became a fan. Congratulations for your channel and tallent. Also want to thank you for spreading your knowledge. I think it's amazing. Ivan from Brasil.

Such an amazing video!

I’m a native Spanish speaker (Mexican-Cuban) and language was always part of my family. In Mexico, my grandmother would always show me her French and German kids books and in Cuba half of the things in my house were in Russian, with my grandfather teaching five year old me how to read Cyrillic. Upon moving to the US I was forced to learn English since no one around me would speak to me in Spanish even though I was in a predominately Hispanic community. After that in school I had to learn a third language and my options were Spanish, French, and Italian. At the time I was fascinated with Italian and learned it in school. While learning Italian I noticed I had a passion for learning languages and within a year I was fully fluent (I’m aware that Italian being a Romance language made it much easier to learn for me). After I finished learning Italian I decided being trilingual wasn’t enough , and with a Lebanese stepfamily I began learning Arabic (unfortunately I only have a grasp of MSA). I also had a Chinese friend with whom I would try to have conversations in Mandarin, even if half of the time he just roasted my pronunciation or my stroke order. Then, once high school stared I became obsessed with everything Russian again and, what do you know, I ended up dating a Russian. After that, I made a bet with my father that I’ll learn Norwegian, and that seems to be progressing mange gutt. At the same time when my internship at University began I began dating a French foreign exchange student and became “conversationally fluent “ (as she describes it) in French over the summer. Finally, now that I have a weekend job and an Austrian boss I began to learn some German. Hope this goes well-polyglot Biologist here I go!

I have just started learning spanish. I am having so much fun

I'm an english speaker - conversational French and German, learning Persian, Latin and Russian

I am from America and English is my native language. Last year I decided that I was going to learn Spanish, French, Italian and sign language ASL before I turn 20. I am fourteen right now and I am studying Spanish and sign language ASL currently. Hopefully by the end of 2019 I will be fluent in three languages. 🤞🏻

I speak fluent English and Chinese, both Mandarin and Cantonese. I'm learning Japanese (conversational level) and Latin at the moment. Also planning to pick up spainish!

You're amazing! I grew up bilingual with English and Spanish. I picked up Russian while in University and can speak, read, and write at a proficient level but no where near fluent lol

My native language is German, I speak English and French almost fluently and I'm learning Spanish atm :)

Incredible story 😊 I speak Danish, English, Norwegian and a little German. For the moment I'm learning Spanish and Russian.

That’s awesome. I grew up speaking English and Spanish fluently. I can speak and understand French, Italian and Portuguese enough to get by in those countries, and very little Romanian. I am learning German and can understand quite a lot because it’s so close to English. I am also learning Polish. I can read text in Cyrillic and understand very little of what it says but hopefully that’ll change once I become more fluent in Polish since both are Slavic languages and very similar, which in turn are also very similar to Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian.

Awesome! I speak Persian as a native but my family and I moved out of the country when I was 2 to Dubai and I started kindergarten in a British school and moved to an American school from grade 1-12. But UAE is an Arabic country (despite almost everyone virtually speaking English cause of the sheer number of internationals) so I had to learn Arabic as well which I was actually the top of the class for (somehow). Anyway, I then moved to Milan for my university because of how close Italian culture is to my own (for starters we both wash our butts! :D) Anyway, now I can speak almost 4 languages. Which is really amazing and something I'm really glad and proud about. I really REALLY want to learn French, German, Japanese and maybe Turkish and Spanish. I also want to obtain a very posh accent (my English accent is a mix of mostly American and British) but I would really like to speak in a British accent naturally, I can imitate it but it feels awkward to speak like that all the time. Any tips? P.S. I love watching polyglot vids, they're so inspiring!

great story!

that's cool we are lucky that we can travel and learn new languages, i speak Arabic, Greek, English, Russian, Danish, and learning Italian right now the silly thing is that i'm dyslexic in all of them and i really straggle with grammar sometime. but i could make it the whole way and learn some of them on naivete level :) Good luck with the Arabic :)

Great stories and also inspiring... I speak portuguese,english and french... l'm also learning italian,german..

My native language is Russian,the English level is upper intermediate and now I learn Spanish

Hey Lina! Your hard work and your improvements push me to continue learning languages :) I'm from Italy, I'm fluent in English and I speak Spanish at an intermediate level. I'm working on learning Portuguese, German and Norwegian! I'm probably going to study Russian at university, but we'll see! Sei mai stata in Italia? Buona fortuna per tutto :)

Hello everyone! I am studying English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hebrew and Arabic and Portuguese ( this is my mother tongue ) I am from Brazil. Congratulations to all of you. Never, ever give up of your dreams

I speak 3 languages, I'm struggling with Spanish rn. I don't have a tutor/online course, no native speakers in my locality any tips for me? After spanish i would want to learn french, russian and Italian

I’m from an area of the US that is pretty freaking monolingual English. I did learn Spanish in school, and I did well in it progressing to Spanish 4 Honors, one of the highest levels. But it wasn’t until I graduated from university that I moved to Japan and taught English there for four years. That’s where I started studying Japanese as a means of survival. When I got frustrated with my slow progress in Japanese, I decided to pick up Spanish again. Even though I didn’t exactly remember all that much, I found I could progress in the language pretty quickly. That’s where I really fell in love with learning multiple languages. I would really like to start a new language. I’m using Duolingo, and the courses I am enjoying the most are Esperanto, Hawaiian, and Dutch.

I wanted to improve my English and then speak French to know so many unknown things for me. Thanks for the video. Greetings from Colombia.

Thank you for the inspiration. I am Hungarian and currently speak 2 foreign languages: English and German. But this motivates me that we can learn more. Since a long time I wanted to learn Italian and maybe Russian or French too... Or Spanish, Dutch, or Polish... Now I have hope that gradually, one at a time maybe it is possible to learn them.

Great video and awesome story! I speak English and Spanish fluently, and I'm picking up Portuguese and Chinese!

Your story is so inspiring!

Hey Lina, I am Rodrigo, brazilian polyglot. As I see here in your video, you had many opportunities to learn many languages in different countries. That`s relly works I can tell so. Well I speak 5 languages, including Portuguese, English, Russian, German and Spanish. Wow you`re from Latvia, I have here in Brazil so many friends descendents of lativians. God bless you there! Take care! Greetings from Brazil! Rodrigo

This is pretty cool! In my country, the Philippines, we learn our national language and English in school. However, these are besides my regional dialect, which is Hiligaynon. Currently, I have been learning French and I think I'll be picking up Spanish again, as it is familiar in the Filipino language :))). Thanks for sharing your story! Makes me feel inspired that I can do this and more

I am in my 30s and finally learning my first foreign language - Spanish! I have always been fascinated by language and not sure why it has taken me so long to do this. Thank you for the extra inspiration/motivation. Ps. When I was a little girl, I thought (still do) that Asian people are beautiful and wanted to change my eyes too!

ayyye its so cool I was just searching polyglot stuff and ur from Latvia where I'm from 😀

wow.. just wow!

It is great to see female polyglots coming out on RU-vid! Thank you! I am not a polyglot as I speak only English, Spanish, French and some Russian. I say some because I married into a Russian family but they have an anglicized version of Russian so there are many words they use that raise the eyebrows of proper Russians, I understand a lot of German because I was raised in a Plattdeustch home. Spanish is so logical and the grammar rules are the most regular so I really became fluent fast. It is so useful in the USA. French was a language so beautiful I couldn't avoid it. It is a joy to speak and to listen to. I am anxious to pick a new language. I might go for mandarin. Before cleaning up my German! Please keep posting.

Such an amazing story

I was born and raised in Jamaica, where English is the official language. When I was about 7 I had a ballet teacher who was from Cuba and his English wasn't very good, so he used to speak Spanish in class a lot and it really made me wish that I could speak Spanish too. I studied Spanish straight through high school and then went on to get a degree in Spanish. I also did Mandarin for one year at university and I started French for the first time there as well and ended up with a minor in French. I just recently started teaching myself Portuguese because of the similarities between it and Spanish + French, and I suppose Italian would be the next logical step. I plan to start reteaching myself Mandarin very soon. Also, one of my favorite RU-vidrs is from Russia and I love when she does videos in Russian, so I plan to learn that as well, and I've fallen in love with Hebrew so I might learn that too. I think Mandarin has been my favourite so far because it's so much more different than any other language I've done and I love writing the symbols!

Love this! Native Arabic, grew up with English in school. Now learning Korean cause i love the culture, people, drama & BTS 💜❤️ i want to learn Spanish as well in the long run to connect with the other side of the world haha

I respect anyone who can speak *2* languages, but 7? That's crazy, and I hold a large amount of respect for you.

I'm amazed by such people, you're such inspiration for people like me who want to learn but there is always something wrong with motivation((. We can be penpals in Russian and when I go to Australia would be happy to meet you! Mucha suerte con las lenguages!! )))

I Speak Portuguese(Fluent),English (Advanced), Spanish (Basic).

I’m currently trying to learn French. The reason why is because I live in Canada, and if you didn’t know, our official languages are English and French. I would love to go to France, and the Belgium (all of Europe too, but I know part of Belgium speaks French). I would love to learn tons more languages (so not very realistic, but with hard work, it is possible) including: German, Dutch (German and Dutch just sound so cool), Russian, Lithuanian (I read a book, called “Words On Fire” about a girl in 19th century Lithuania, during when Russia occupies it, 10/10 would recommend) Arabic, Hindi, and Mandarin. I’m sure I can achieve French, probably German, maybe Dutch, but Russian, Mandarin, and Arabic would (or will, lol) be harder to learn.

It's so fascinating how you are able to use all these languages at a conversational level! I wish I could do the same for all the languages that I am proficient in, as well as the ones I am studying and will be studying. For the record, Filipino (particularly the Tagalog language) and English are, by right of the Philppine constitution, my native tongues. I also know Japanese and Spanish, though I am not yet able to use them at a proficient extent. I'd like to learn Arabic, because I live in an Arab country, and other Filipino languages (such as Cebuano and Ilocano) so that I get to strengthen my ability to communicate with my countrymen better, and I'd recommend that you try the same for the Filipino languages, too!

Hey Lina!! I am trying to be just like you!!! I can speak Dutch, English and French fluently. My Italian, my Spanish and my Portuguese are conversational and I would like to study Russian, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese in the future!! Keep learning languages!! ;)

I can speak English, French and Arabic. Currently learning Armenian and future plans is to hopefully tackle Romanian and/or Spanish. You're an inspiration

I can speak English, French, Spanish (both to about B1/2 level) and a bit of Italian (more A2). I'm hoping to study Japanese at university, and I'm also hoping to give Portuguese a go Keep it up, that's amazing that you can speak so many already!

i speak 7 languages, im polyglot. but i ofcus i will continue the 8, 9 10th...... Now im doing 6 months FLUENCY IN ARABIC, i will be fluent in Arabic before jully 2019. keep up the good work support from France ❤

Arabic is my first language, learned English at such an early age, tried learning German during college on my own, learned a little Turkish and now that I had moved to Brazil, I am learning Portuguese

Thanks for being an actual polyglot. I saw another video from a girl who spoke 4 languages. I speak 4 languages polyglot is 5, 6 plus!!

I am Zimbabwean i speak Ndebele and shona fluently, English is my third language , i now want to learn Spanish as fourth language.

Really nice! You got a new sub, Lina. I know you from Gabriel Poliglota´s channel lol

This video is amazing, I always wanted to become a polyglot, and I speak five languages so far, Arabic, English, Tamazight, French and German, my next language would either Spanish or Russian

Awesome! I „just“ speak German (native), English, French and Croatian. And I‘m able to speak 5-7 Austrian dialects...

I love her.

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Good Video! :-) I'm speaking German and Chechen, English almost fluently. Right now I'm learning Russian and in the upcoming schoolyear I will have Latin in School. I planned to learn Arabic when I'm fluent in Russian.

This is so cool! I'd love to speak so many languages. German is my mother language, i speak very good (not fluent yet though) English. I'm learning French ( five years) and Italian (one year) in school and learn Chinese currently. Moreover I just started Portuguese I want to learn Hebraic and Japanese and maybe later Arabic and Danish (all not easy 😁)

Молодец Лина,продолжай!

como tu faz para aprender o português , estou estudando o inglês e quero ser fluente quanto tempo demora e tem como ser sendo autodidata?

I speak only Swedish and english fluently and now i am learning russian and french and for my own best i will 100% these languages and not take on more languages since studying 3 or 4 languages won't get you anywhere is any of them so i'll stick to learning French and Russian thanks for coming to my TED talk

wow! you're like the god of polyglots hahaha! I speak English and Norwegian, almost fluent in Mandarin Chinese and I've learned French at school for 4 years, so I'm like on a conversable level. I can also understand quite a lot of Korean, but I have difficulty trying to acually speak the language and form ok sentences

The only language I would say I’m fluent in is English (my native language). I’m learning french at school and after I leave school this year I definitely will start to learn more languages. I think it would be so cool to be able to communicate with everyone, especially as I want to work in the travel industry.

Amazing!! I speak Portuguese (my native language), English and Spanish. Now I’m learning German and French and want to learn Italian next haha

I speak Norwegian, English and am currently learning Greek, and planning to learn russian and polish later.

VERY interesting; I hope you can make it to Bratislava this year to th e polyglot gathering, would be delighted to see you there. I am a franco chilean born in Moscow with some German origins from my mom , event htough both parnets speak Spanish, they made their studies in the sixties in CCCP; WHen I was three months old I flew from Moscow to Punta Arenas, and then when I was four years old, to Paris France and then Orléans. thus my natives are French and Spanish, I speak English and my major was Japanese at university. I do read some Mandarin, I understand some German, I have started also Russian, Latvian , Lithuanian, Finnish, Norwegian, Estonian, Irish Gaelic and Hungarian mainly. I have done siome Hindi and some Georgina, I have even a book about Livonian and another one about Latgalian. I spend a lot of time going to palce like mundolingua here in Paris, a museum dedicated to the languages, run by a new Zelader from Hungarina descent,and go to the polyglot club coffe for exchanging on thursdays and Saturdays. I wen to the former two polyglot gatheringd in Bratislava, and witness your video with R Simcott in Ljubjana this fall. I am pretty much in the finno-ugric and balto slavic gorup and the gadelic group. Enjoy your videos a lot. Carry on!uz redzesanos (without diacritics, lo siento)

My native language is English but I recently started learning Russian as my boyfriend is Russian similar to you. This will be my first attempt at trying to learn a language to a fluent level so any advice is welcome. Спасибо!

nice! I speak portugese, english and spanish and I've been studying french

I speak Ukrainian and Russian fluently and Istudy English and Spanish. I want to study Chinese and German but when will I do it if I don't have enough time even to study these 2 languages? I'd like to be able to stop the time😅

It's great to know of other people who are enthusiastic about languages. Learning the language is essential to understand the culture of other nationalities. I speak English and Maltese fluently. I also speak Italian at c1/c2 level. I have also studied German (B1), Spanish (A2) and Arabic (A1) I would love to learn more Spanish. I was studying Italian and Spanish at the same time, until I was having difficulty with having enough time to learn both while working.