how I plan my language learning - plan for C1 English with me 💫

What's up me guys? What's up mour?

Hola guys. My name is Zika. I'm a

linguist. I study linguistics in Paris.

I speak five languages almost fluently.

In this video, I would like to share with you how I planned my English learning plan. Why? Why I need to learn

learning plan. Why? Why I need to learn English? You will ask me. Even though I

English? You will ask me. Even though I speak it just fine. I'm okay. Exactly.

I'm just okay. I need better. For the

last uh two years, I've been focusing mainly on French and I got the results.

Now I have C1. Thank God. You can watch my previous video where I shared how I learned French to such a level. I felt

the need of improving my English for the past few months because I live in the university and I'm surrounded by very smart people, a very freaking intelligent people and I mean

physicists, linguists and most of the people have such good English even though they are not native. They have a very good command of their speech. They

have an ineloquent vocabulary. Just such

amazing thoughts too, which I think is pretty hard to even express in your native language. And so I kind of feel

native language. And so I kind of feel insecure. It's fine. I can express my

insecure. It's fine. I can express my thoughts and I speak just fine. But the

level that I had 3 years ago, four years ago, is not the same anymore. When I was 16, I had C1 in English. Now I barely have B2. Thank god I do have B2, but I

have B2. Thank god I do have B2, but I need my previous glory, if you know what I mean. And uh since I achieved my goal

I mean. And uh since I achieved my goal with French, just pass it to get into the university here in Paris, I can move on to other languages. And I thought, which language do I choose? Spanish,

Portuguese, Italian, because these are all of the languages that are on my list. I was like, girl, we need English.

list. I was like, girl, we need English.

We need English. And I have such an amazing opportunity to go home for a month, even a bit more than a month, to go home to Ukraine because right now I live in Paris. and to just stay there to

pretend like it's quarantine because in my hometown I don't have any more friends because all of them left. It's

just a small town where you don't have much to do but to study or scroll and I already scrolled a lot of time during my summer holidays. So I'm not repeating

summer holidays. So I'm not repeating that mistake anymore. I'm going to use this time to study. This will be the time between my two semesters because I'm not having any exams in January.

Thank God. I'm using this time to educate myself, to improve my English, to improve my speech, to sound like an eloquent, elegant, intelligent woman.

I'm going to explain what I'm going to do. But first things first, how a

do. But first things first, how a language learning works. Basically, you

have four parts to improve speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Two of

them are passive learning. Two others

are productive skills. And for my example, I don't want to guess, but I'm something between B2 and C1. But I want to have a proper S1. I know to get a proper S1 in English, I would need a few

months of consistent studying, which I don't really have. I only have one month. What I'm going to do for now is

month. What I'm going to do for now is focus on my passive skills on reading, mostly reading. Actually, I'm not going

mostly reading. Actually, I'm not going to listen because I I understand perfectly almost everything in English.

What I'm going to do is read. I'm going

to read a lot and write essays, my opinions on things because what I have also found, thank god I have self-awareness. I don't have any

self-awareness. I don't have any opinions. You know how you scroll on Tik

opinions. You know how you scroll on Tik Tok and then you see like a hot topic, immigration, politics, and I realized I agree with the comments that have the

most amount of likes. It's really bad because I think it is more important to have your own opinion than to agree with the masses because it shows that you are

actually able to think. You are a actually able to think critically and evaluate the situation and I think I like it with the arise of social media.

Before social media, I used to have my own opinions which were not also very confident. And so what I would really

confident. And so what I would really love to do, the way I would really love to learn English this month is to combine it with self-education to form opinions on the most important topics

that there are in the world. For

example, I have some chip help me. It's

not really that cool to use GPT anymore, but I can help. So there are topics that I would really love to learn. Five main

topics with uh many other subtopics that I would really love to have an opinion on or to just know them. Oh yeah, I know the basics of it. For example, we have

the financial world, inflation, interest rates, central banks, recession cycles, AI sector, energy sector, why those are good and why those are bad, where most

of the opportunities are. Because also

one of the goals that I set for my 2026 is to learn investment, learn financial basics, basics in terms of economics and stuff in order to become a good investor

in the future because I know I will be making more money in the future. And I'm

almost 21 years old. So I think it's time to learn that I'm going to combine my financial education with English and self-education, which is three birds

with one stone. And I think I I chose a really pertinent really relatable topics that I would need. I would really want to know where the money is flowing. Also

would like to form an opinion of what I would like to invest in the future because I for sure will not invest oil in uh in the arms for sure will not invest in that I would really love

to form uh my proper opinion on what I would love to invest in and how the whole economy works to understand what is going on because everything is

developing so quickly. I don't I don't like this feeling. I need to know what to do for my own life for myself and who to vote for in the government and so on and so on. And I also have some

psychology topics, some uh politics and society things like fashion cycles, luxury industry, etc. And uh what I'm going to do, so basically I need some

wet. I'm a bit sick. Let me see if it's

wet. I'm a bit sick. Let me see if it's even filming. Yesterday I have a bit of

even filming. Yesterday I have a bit of trauma of recording when it was not recording. Uh so I will have a month

recording. Uh so I will have a month relatively free month. I still have my tutoring classes. I still have my work

tutoring classes. I still have my work which takes up 12 hours per week which is totally fine. My mom takes care of cooking most of the time. I do my basic sports and I will be taking out my dog

for walks two times a day. So, this is going to be my routine for a month, which uh I know might sound depressing, but I need to take care of my brain this month. I need to take care of this time

month. I need to take care of this time because I really have to go home for a month to finish of my teeth and I really don't want to waste this time. Also,

also I have another opinion on that too.

I think I will make a video too how I balance my studies, my work with my self-improvement with uh basic fun with life because I'm not that rigid as you

might have thought based on my calendar.

It's all just a suggestion. I'm still

going to have my days of uh rest and period of uh also family celebrations, family reunions, etc. My friend will also come. So it's not that rigid, but I

also come. So it's not that rigid, but I I do like having a certain plan for myself. And so for the first 3 hours of

myself. And so for the first 3 hours of the day when my brain works the best, I'm going to dedicated to learning once again to my financial education, self-education, and English, which are all combined. And so what I'm going to

all combined. And so what I'm going to do in those 3 hours, I'm going to print out all of the articles that I found on those topics that I have already shown you. And uh I'm going to print them,

you. And uh I'm going to print them, going to read them. I'm going to underline the important vocabulary. And

I'm going to develop some opinions based on what I have read. It will improve at the same time my production skills in English which is writing and also speaking. I'm also thinking about

speaking. I'm also thinking about completing a grammar book in English.

The advanced use of English. It's a nice book because I had it during my I think last year I had a class of advanced English grammar but I honestly didn't learn anything because I was just

looking at the plane tickets in the class. Uh but it's a good book. I would

class. Uh but it's a good book. I would

like to complete it again because it has so many nuances in English which are just my head even hurts but it would be nice to complete it. I'm not expecting of myself to complete it in a month

which is like impossible more like half a year or something. I would also do that sometimes. The most important thing

that sometimes. The most important thing that I would like to say is that I'm not that rigid as I was with myself in the past where I would plan two months ahead of specific things that I would be doing

every single day. Sorry, but no, I don't want that. I like my freedom but also

want that. I like my freedom but also having a general plan. So I'm just going to choose whatever topic I feel like doing today. Am I feeling fashion today?

doing today. Am I feeling fashion today?

Am I feeling some uh US China politics?

Let's choose in the end of each chapter which is like finances, politics and society. I'm going to be writing opinion

society. I'm going to be writing opinion essays based on the notes that I made after reading each article. It is

important for my production skills, for my writing and also speaking because I will also be training to speak about those things too. Vocabulary will be learned in the most basic way. Honestly,

I tried so many things already. I tried

flashcards. I tried an I don't even remember what I tried but just writing things down on paper, creating phrases with the new words and revisiting them

from time to time works the best for me.

All of my plan is in my language learning hub which you can get on my Kofi link in the description. 80 people

bought it and it has everything you would need to create your own language learning plan from setting goals to reviewing your progress. You can watch a separate video on the template itself

and uh also my previous video from last week where I was sharing my French learning routine that I did to achieve C1. And I think also an important part

C1. And I think also an important part is to say to explain how I'm going to stay accountable and discipline.

Honestly, I don't really struggle with discipline. I know why it's important

discipline. I know why it's important for me. I know why it's good for me. I

for me. I know why it's good for me. I

know why I should do that. I hate

procrastinating. But also sometimes you just lose um motivation and inspiration because it gets hard. Your head hurts or you don't want to do that etc. And so in

those cases, I have learned to mix up the tasks during the day. For example, I woke up this morning. I don't feel like studying. I am really inspired to make a

studying. I am really inspired to make a video. I'm going to do that. And I'm

video. I'm going to do that. And I'm

going to postpone my studying later to the day. I'm sorry, my head hurts. Am I

the day. I'm sorry, my head hurts. Am I

a bit sick? It's just better to do something later than to not do it at all and to end up procrastinating. So, I

have learned to balance everything, to balance with whatever I'm feeling, however I'm feeling, what phase of the cycle I'm in, just live my life, enjoy

my life while also making progress. I

want to make a video on that. By the

way, if you really want it, please comment down below because I'm really proud of my planning system right now.

I'm really satisfied with my productivity and life right now because I both have life and I both have progress in my projects and I have also work. So, I would really love to share

work. So, I would really love to share that with you, too. And yeah, this was my plan for the next month. I can't

wait. Honestly, I like learning languages. I love learning, guys.

languages. I love learning, guys.

Education and knowledge is so freaking powerful. It's just that you have so

powerful. It's just that you have so much more freedom afterwards when you educate yourself, and you have a lot of knowledge and confidence in it. This is

the thing that I will stand by till the end of my life. So, I really hope this video helped you. I hope you got some inspiration. I hope you got some notes.

inspiration. I hope you got some notes.

I hope you got your planner too because it's really helpful. And uh I hope to see you in my next video. Stay

knowledgeable, stay pretty, stay powerful. See you in the next one. Mizu.

powerful. See you in the next one. Mizu.