In a week dedicated to the Inner Complainer, this is part two of our "For the Very Reluctant Learner" trio of episodes, which started yesterday. In this series, we are looking at some of the Inner Complainer’s loudest mental protestations to learning a language and we’re going to try and reframe them for you. And today's complaint is "it's going to take far too long" and by extension, "it's taking time away from all the other things you need, love and care about". 

Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of Tea with Me, a platform to help multi-passionate and unconventional language learners splash language into every part of their lives. She is also the author of the How to Be Me series of language journals to help you to tell the stories that really matter in your new language. Join her on Instagram at @teawithemily or visit her website at https://teawithemily.com/

A huge thank you to Samuel Peter Davies for the happiest music in the world, and to Anna Bovi Diamond for using every colour in the box on the cover art.