Polyglot with Petrov English in 16 hours. Polyglot

The intellectual reality show of the Kultura TV channel is intensive course studying of English language. He teaches a real polyglot, who has more than 30 languages. This is teacher Dmitry Petrov - psycholinguist, simultaneous interpreter, teacher, author of the book "The Magic of the Word". There are 8 people in the group of students.

Members: actors Vladimir Epifantsev, Anna Litkens, Daria Ekamasova, Alexandra Rebenok, Anastasia Vvedenskaya; jeweler-designer Mikhail Milyutin; art historian Alisa Gorlova; Oleg Shishkin, writer, screenwriter and presenters of the Magic Cinema program.

Here is what Petrov himself says about this interactive course:

“To master the English language perfectly, life is not enough. To learn how to speak professionally, you also need to spend a lot of time, effort and energy. But in order to simply learn to understand people, to be understood, and most importantly, to get rid of fear, which for many hinders any desire and ability to explain in the language, this requires no more than a few days.

What I offer you, I have experienced on myself and enough in large numbers of people. I am a professional translator, linguist, I am engaged in professional translation in a number of languages, I teach this to others. And, gradually, a certain approach, a mechanism was developed. I must say that such a progression is observed - each next language requires less effort and time.

A week is enough for any language. What is language? - language is A New Look on the world around reality. It is the ability to switch, to make a click. And as in the receiver, we change one program for another, tune in to a different wave.

What is required on your part is motivation (desire to travel, something related to the profession, with training and communication, it can be friendship or love) ”

Each lesson reinforces what has been learned and introduces new grammar and lexical material. By the end, students have mastered the basic grammatical patterns and freely use them in their speech.

Dmitry Petrov's method is not to start with the language, but to penetrate it, to feel comfortable in the new language environment.

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Lesson #1

The participants in the show begin a course of 16 lessons. Everyone's goal is to learn to speak English. To master the language perfectly - not enough life. But it takes only a few days to simply learn to understand people and be understood, Dmitry Petrov is sure.

Lesson #2

The verb in every language is the stem. The list of verbs that each person constantly uses does not exceed 50-60 words. There are, of course, thousands of others, but they are used in only 10% of speech. We can talk about the present, the future, the past. We can affirm, deny, ask something. It turns out a table of 9 cells: tic-tac-toe.

Lesson #3

Most of us know great amount English words. Consciously or subconsciously. English words are everywhere. But they can be compared with a scattering of beads, which are scattered by themselves, but the systems are not. The absence of a system hinders their effective use, so one of the basic principles our system is to create a thread, a rod where all these beads can be strung.

Lesson #4

List of the most important verbs most often used in English speech, Dmitry Petrov proposes to work out using the basic scheme and bring it to automatism. This is the first step that needs to be taken in order to reach the level of fluent, non-stressed language proficiency during the course.

Lesson #5

Do you think it is possible to learn 50,000 words per minute? Each of you can bet with those who do not know what is possible. The situation is simple. In English, in Russian and in a number of other languages ​​there are a large number of words with the same ending. So, in Russian, about 50 thousand words end in -tion or -sia. In English, most of these words have the same root, and ending -tion or -sion. According to statistics, there are several tens of thousands of such words.

Lesson #6

Dmitry Petrov's students, using the constructions and tables obtained in previous classes, begin to communicate in the language. With mistakes, with long pauses, but progress is noticeable. The main thing is to relax and take off psychological barrier.

Lesson #7

Dmitry Petrov's method is not to memorize the language, but to penetrate it in order to feel comfortable in the new language environment. Probably for this reason, the participants of the show decided to master professional vocabulary. Six of them are media faces - actors, directors, TV presenters.

Lesson #8

Dmitry Petrov and the participants of the show analyze the system of prepositions. First, students make sentences about the position of objects in space. Petrov then explains that some prepositions are added to verbs and so-called phrasal verbs come into being.

Lesson #9

It is necessary to speak without hesitation, with pleasure, figuratively, Dmitry Petrov believes. If you pay attention exclusively to grammatical structures and the number of learned words, then success is hardly possible. And if the language is perceived not as a textbook or dictionary, but as something alive, changeable, filled with vivid images, these barriers disappear. It is this approach that Petrov adheres to when working with students in the studio.

Lesson #10

At the tenth lesson, the project participants continue free and creative communication on topics of interest to them. Of course, not everything works out exactly and correctly for them, but Dmitry Petrov is in no hurry to correct the grammatical errors of his wards: he wants them to learn to enjoy speaking English, and you can always polish your speech. The main thing is to have something to polish.

Lesson #11

At the 11th lesson, the group conducts a kind of revision of the acquired knowledge - it repeats the grammatical patterns studied in the first lessons. Daria Ekamasova talks about how she went on an internship. At the end of the lesson, students continue to develop their communication skills.

Lesson #12

Dmitry Petrov tells on what principle it is better to form the basis of the language and explains with the help of what mechanisms to type necessary vocabulary. Students describe an image they associate with learning English and look forward to the teacher revealing to them all 30 "magic" verbs with which they can talk about everything.

A real gift from famous linguist Dmitry Petrov and the TV channel "Culture". A video course of 16 lessons, at the end of which you will be able to speak English. This is the most helpful English course for beginners I have ever seen. Below is the text of the video. Watch and read, you won't regret it!

 

Good afternoon! Today we will start the course, which will take 16 lessons. Our goal is to learn to speak English. To master the language perfectly - not enough life. To learn how to speak professionally, you also need to spend enough time, effort, and energy. But in order to simply learn to understand people, to be understood and, most importantly, to get rid of fear, which for many hinders any desire and ability to speak the language - I am sure that this will take no more than a few days.

What I offer you, I have experienced on myself and a fairly large number of people: I am a professional translator, a professional linguist, I am engaged in simultaneous translation in a number of languages, I teach this to others ... And some kind of approach, some kind of mechanism was gradually developed ... And it is necessary to say that there is such a progression: each next language requires less effort, less time.

- How many languages ​​do you know?

There are 7-8 main European languages ​​that I constantly work with as a translator and as a teacher. Well, there will be 2-3 dozen other languages ​​that I can speak in the situation when it is necessary.

- And what, did you learn all these languages ​​in a few lessons?!

Yes, if we are talking about the second category of languages, it is absolutely true. A week is enough for any language.

Let me explain what is required for this. After all, what is language? First of all, language is a new view of the world, of the surrounding reality. This is the ability to switch, that is, to make a click - as in the receiver we change one program for another - to tune in to another wave. What is required on your part is, above all, motivation. It may be just a desire to travel, it may be something related to the profession, with training, with communication. It can be friendship and, finally, love.

Now we will try to figure out what prevented you from learning the language. Because one might think that we are talking about some kind of miracle: how is it possible to speak the language in a few days? In my opinion, the miracle is different: how can you learn a language for months, years and not be able to connect some elementary things on it? Therefore, I will ask you to begin by giving your names and in a nutshell say that until now it has been a significant difficulty for you, why do you still not speak English?

- My name is Michael. First of all, there was no incentive for me to speak. And at school, when I was going through this whole thing, at some point I missed it, then I didn’t understand and ...

This is a fairly typical argument, because most of you know a huge amount of English words - consciously or subconsciously, but English words are everywhere. But they can be compared with a scattering of beads, which are scattered by themselves, but there is no system. The lack of a system makes it difficult to use words effectively, so one of the basic principles of my method, my system, is to create this thread, the rod, where you can string all these beads.

Please, what is your name?

- Daria.

How did your relationship develop with the language?

- Well, to be honest, it seems to me that only laziness prevented me from learning it, because, in principle, I have already started learning it all the time since kindergarten, and I still don’t know, although there is a desire. Now I really want to learn English!

Well, laziness is a state and property worthy of respect. Everything we have, we must accept. Because fighting laziness is unrealistic. Therefore, I want to tell you the good news: in addition to the fact that our course is quite compact (these are not years or months, these are 16 lessons, by the end of which, as I hope, if you help me and take a step towards me, we will just speak English) you will have to do some things yourself, but one more good news: you do not have to sit for hours and do some homework. Firstly, because it is unrealistic - no adult will ever do any homework for hours, no matter what he does.

I will ask you for a few minutes every day to repeat certain things that I will suggest that you do at the end of each session. I can't believe you don't have 5 minutes 2-3 times a day to repeat certain patterns. What is it for? The amount of information that is really worth mastering, learning, hammering into yourself does not exceed the multiplication table. It will take several basic structures to automatism. What does it mean? Bring them to a level at which, for example, our legs work when they walk, how our structures work. mother tongue. It's quite real.

Please, what is your name?

- My name is Anna. It prevented me from learning English formal approach. Because I actually did well in school, and the basically simple things that we learned were reduced to schemes that I can’t use when I meet a live person. Right now, for example, a person from Dublin came to visit us, and I feel that there is no full-fledged communication. I'm offended, time is running out ... At the same time, I remember that I know everything, I have 5 in English: the table is white, the wall is black, everything is fine, but there is nothing to say!

Resentment is a very powerful motivation! Well thank you! You?

My name is Vladimir. I'm just ashamed. It hurts me when I can't express myself. I understand that it is enough to relax, as I once had, I was talking with one Englishman after a couple of beers - I could communicate with him easily. For some reason, since childhood, I did not like to study. I had the feeling that I knew everything. There is a feeling that I also know English. Sometimes in my sleep I speak easily and understand everything. Sometimes watching a movie in English, I fall asleep and begin to understand it. But I never learned to speak.

- My name is Anastasia. It seems to me that the lack of immersion in the environment prevents me. Because when I start teaching myself and studying from books, these schemes begin: what is put first, what then, all the verbs ... I can no longer improvise, I always remember this scheme in my head and think that I need to substitute it there.

Quite right! Our goal is to ensure that this scheme does not have to be remembered.

- My name is Alexandra. It probably bothers me that there is a huge spectrum different methods and schools. I have a huge amount of information in my head, but I still cannot talk about the past, future and present. I get confused in these forms and, of course, after 10 minutes my interlocutor says OK ... 🙂

Well, maybe you are generally philosophical about time? .. In the course of the course, we will put things in order.

- My name is Oleg, and I have a certain horror, of course, about irregular verbs…

The beginning was similar: my name is Oleg and I'm an alcoholic 🙂

- I'm scared all the time, it seems to me that I can't concentrate on the language that I think I know now at the level of “your mine understands”.

- My name is Alice. I was always prevented by laziness and lack of time to go to courses and simply restore the language in volume.

Language in general, quite rightly, should be perceived as something voluminous. Any information that we receive in a linear form (a list of words, a table, a diagram of some rules, verbs) - this causes what we call the student's syndrome: learned, passed and forgot. For volumetric learning of a language, it is not enough to know the words, you need to feel your physical presence in new environment. Therefore, an image and some emotional attachments, sensations must be connected. Now, if offhand you ask a question when they talk about the English language, what association comes to mind? Here English language What came right away?

- Envy! When I see children who speak English...

From childhood and for free 🙂

- I remember the book. Edition of Shakespeare - old-old! At my parents. Such a brown cover… I've been leafing through it since childhood, I thought, my God! And fields overgrown with heather...

Heather honey 🙂

So the first schema is the verb schema.
The verb in every language is the stem. And I must say, when we talked about the number of words that need to be mastered, there is such statistics: regardless of our age, level of education, the language we speak, 90% of our speech falls on 300 - 350 words. By the way, from the list of these basic 300 words, verbs occupy 50 - 60 words (depending on the language).

According to the logic of using verbs, we can talk either about the present, or about the future, or about the past.
We can either affirm or deny something, or ask, ask a question.
And here is a table of 9 possible options.

Let's take a verb. For example, love. The functionality of the verb is given by the system of pronouns:

I, you, we, they, he, she.

You love means "you love" or "you love". It is sometimes erroneously claimed that in English everything is “you”. Nothing like this! Everything in English is “you”. There is a word for "you" in English, but it is only used when speaking to God, in prayers, in the Bible, and so on. This word is thou, but we will not even write it down, because a rare native speaker even knows it.

Now, if the person is 3rd, then here we add the letter s:

In any language, no matter what we undertake, in my opinion, all forms of the verb must be given at once, so that we can immediately see the three-dimensional structure. And not like today we learned it, a month later - the past tense, a year later - the interrogative form ... All at once, in the first minutes!

Read more about times in the article. There is a video there. Dragunkin explains everything very clearly 🙂

In order to form the past tense, the letter d is added:

I loved
he loved
she loved

To form the future tense is added auxiliary word will: I will love; he will love; she will love.

- What about "shall"?

Canceled. For the last 30 years, "shall" has been used in legal/clerical language.

- That is, when we were taught, it was already canceled?

Already gone!)

And here we have affirmative form verb.

- And “it” is what we have?

“It” is not. There is no word for “it” in English because there is no gender. Russian has masculine, feminine and neuter gender, there is none in English. The word it simply means "it" and has nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, many who were told at school that he, she, it are three genders remained in this delusion. There is no gender in English! There is one common gender. He and she are words indicating the gender of a person, but this is not a grammatical gender. In Russian, big / big / big, in English it will all be big.

That is, if I, as in Russian, play with the word “it” (it) somehow literary, they won’t be able to translate me?

Absolutely. So we have to look for some other means.

…
Negative form: don't added:

I/you/we/they don't love; he/she doesn't love.

Negative past tense:

I/you/we/they/he/she didn't love.

This structure is the most important, the most difficult, the very first in the English language. Mastered it - consider mastered half of the language.

Negative form in the future tense:

I/you/we/they/he/she will not love.

Interrogative form in the present tense: DO, DOES are added.

Interrogative form in the past tense: DID.

Interrogative form in the future tense: WILL.

The system of coordinates has turned out: at first I am defined, whether I APPROVE, I ASK or I DENY, then I find out, it WAS, IS or WILL be?

Here is this list, in which there are 50 - 60 verbs that each person constantly uses (there are, of course, 1000 others, but they occupy 10%). There is regular verbs: love, live, work, open, close ... But there is another half of the verbs, which is called and causes awe and horror, because from childhood everyone remembers these tables with three forms, hundreds of some kind of verbs ...

So, in fact, in the basic list that we need to master and bring to automatism, there are half of them, that is, 20 - 30 irregular verbs that we need to master. Take the irregular (super irregular) verb see:

I don't see. He doesn't

As long as nothing changes...

And only in one case (statement in the past tense) out of 9 possible cases does the “obscene” form saw appear:

This is the form of the verb that is written in brackets: see (saw).

Moreover, irregular verbs can only be very common, because in the course of history they are used so often that they are inevitably distorted.

The third form of the verb, which we will get to later, is the participle (seen, done, etc.), so it should be lumped together with the verb form.

In all other 8 cases - the correct or irregular verb - it does not matter.

Say, “he came” and “he came” in English are they the same thing?

The notion of the form ( perfect view / imperfect species) is only in Russian (Slavic languages):

Come, come

This is not the case in English:

He came – he came; He came

You take a verb and run it through all these forms. It takes 20 to 30 seconds. Then take another verb. When mastering structures, the regularity of repetition is much more important than the amount of time. It is very important. You will be convinced that after 2-4 lessons this structure will work automatically.

Is this diagram clear? There are several more schemes that are simpler, smaller and clearer. But everything is based on this scheme, so it needs to be brought to automatism. When you try to speak, this is the first thing to do. And you need to either spend time and energy on this to glue it on your internal monitor, or to ensure that it will work on its own, for you.

With regular repetition through the pond of days, this structure will begin to work automatically, which, perhaps, has not happened for many years.

This is usually given very loosely and the ratio is not explained. When there is no single three-dimensional picture, problems arise that many people have been pursuing for years.

This concludes our first lesson, and I really hope that you will have a few minutes to try to move this structure towards automatism. Goodbye!

There is nothing easier than learning English. It only takes a few hours to do this! So they say in the video lessons of D. Petrov "Polyglot: English in 16 hours." For the first time, the course began to be broadcast on the Kultura TV channel, but quickly gained popularity on the network. The eminent expert Dmitry Petrov in front of the audience teaches foreign languages ​​to the stars of show business and ordinary people. From scratch!

We at Tap to English really love this course for its simplicity, accessibility and effectiveness. It's great for beginners of all ages! How to improve your results from watching polyglot lessons by spending only 16 hours on English? Let's find out in today's article.

Polyglot: English from the pros

Who is Dmitry Petrov? Dmitry Yurievich is one of the most famous simultaneous interpreters in Russia and the near abroad. Petrov's course is not in vain called "Polyglot" - English is not single language, which the expert is fluent in! The teacher can freely speak and translate speech and texts in 8 languages, among them:

English
Spanish
Czech
Italian
French
Deutsch
Hindi
Greek

At the same time, Petrov also understands the structure and grammar of another 50 languages ​​of the world! He has a lot to learn, and his talent as a teacher makes the Polyglot English course one of the most successful free projects in Russia.

Polyglot - English in 16 hours of lessons and hard work

By carefully watching the video of a polyglot, in 16 hours of lessons you can bring your English from zero to high-quality conversational level. Of course, the course requires a lot inner work and perseverance.

It is not necessary to view the lessons every day, get into the habit of opening the polyglot page 16 hours before on the tap2eng website at least every other day - so English will not get bored, and the material will be well absorbed!

But keep in mind that on the day of rest from watching polyglot lessons, you should at least look at the notes you made with your own hands. Repeat new words, explain the rules to yourself mentally again. Get it the next day new information from video. For greater efficiency, you can create your own training schedule. Or use the tap2eng system, created on the basis of "Polyglot: English in 16 hours of lessons":

Polyglot: English from scratch in 16 hours using a simple system

Follow these steps to move through the material quickly and with good results:
1. Set aside more than an hour a day to watch lessons. You will frequently pause the video to record or review information.
2. Get a separate notebook or file on your computer where you will make notes and notes.
3. At the end of each polyglot lesson - English from scratch in 16 hours - look through your notes, mark incomprehensible blocks of information with a contrasting color.
4. The next day, do not watch the video, but repeat what you learned yesterday or deal with incomprehensible information.
5. 2 times a week spend 20-30 minutes learning new English words. Outline their transcription in your notes.
6. Make notes in the margins while watching the video - what do you need to learn, what to fully understand, what to practice outside the lesson?

Polyglot - English from scratch in 16 hours - an extremely effective system program for the formation of conversational skills.

Polyglot Dmitry Petrov: “English in 16 hours of lessons is real!”

The transfer of Dmitry Petrov "Polyglot" would not be so popular if the English lessons, distributed over 16 hours, would not bring results. Right before the eyes of TV and Internet viewers, the learning process unfolds. Newcomers are initially invited to the program.
If you are a beginner, this video course will help you. With due perseverance and desire, for the time declared by Petrov - 16 hours - you will become a polyglot, looking through lesson after lesson. Or at least be interested in the topic! And this is already a great start for the future.

In 2012, the first season of the reality show was released on the Culture channel - Polyglot - English in 16 hours. ambitious goal announced immediately, in the title of the program.

8 participants from different levels knowledge: from elementary to zero.

16 lessons with an experienced teacher, during which it was necessary to:

• compose basic vocabulary;
• master the basics of grammar;
• and, ultimately, to speak.

The purpose of the program "Polyglot - English in 16 hours"

- to help students enjoy the lessons and make it clear that achieving tangible progress in learning a foreign language is not a fairy tale, but a true story.

Do not intimidate with deliberate complexity, but open up new spaces: in order not to suffer over the next exercise or a stack of words, but to live the language, take the most desirable, necessary for:

• communication with foreigners in social networks, on forums, on trips abroad;
• views of movies and series in the original;
• access to information sources.

For 16 hours it is possible:

A person who more or less decently speaks his native language, by definition, is able to speak another. At least for basic level. Only a lack of motivation can serve as a limiter. Dmitry Petrov

Dmitry Petrov

- the person who took on the task:

• Linguist and part-time polyglot. AT varying degrees familiar with more than 30 languages.
• Simultaneous translator. Works with basic European languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. And, not so revered by the masses, Czech, Greek and Hindi.
• Lecturer at the Moscow State Linguistic University.
• Author of the book "Magic of the Word".

But not in the ranks is Petrov's main merit, but in the methodology voiced in the program "Polyglot - English in 16 hours."

Many simply do not need to delve very deeply into all the richness of the language. They want faster and more practical results. Actually, for the sake of this, I tried to formulate the basic principles of the methodology.

Its essence boils down to the following: there are a number of basic algorithms, a certain matrix, a “multiplication table” of the language, which must be brought to automatism as soon as possible. Dmitry Petrov

For myself, I singled out two main advantages of Petrov's lessons, which are 100% consistent with the main theses of the program itself:

• increased motivation;
• presentation of the basics in a concise, concise manner.

Let's consider these points in more detail.

Polyglot - English in 16 hours - a reality!

Many people need the language for travel, study or work. But how many people actually acquire skills?

Most perceive any foreign language as a secret with seven seals. Something so complex that it is subject only to the elect, gifted from birth (with an excellent memory, a special way of thinking).

Do not help promotion and memories of school hardships. Memories:

• about porridge in the head after school;
• about the thick fog that obscures the eye while trying to cope with homework.

So is it possible to overcome disbelief and change the perception of English as a kind of Holy Grail that everyone has heard of, but few have seen?

Polyglot comes to the rescue, promising the impossible - to teach the language in 16 hours? It turns out that it's time to pack your bags and prepare for the tour according to the scheme - Suitcase → Moscow → London, New York, Sydney?

Not!

This is impossible, despite the promises of pseudolinguists, not in a week, not in 3 months. In such a short time, only the alphabet can be firmly mastered.

And Dmitry notes that he did not intend to teach everything in less than a day (two full working days):

No one has ever set as their goal to teach a language in 16 hours. It's about about overcoming the psychological barrier, helping students experience the comfort of learning a language and understand that it is real. Dmitry Petrov

It helps a lot when a person with many years of experience in learning and teaching languages ​​(who knows more than one himself) assures that you are able to understand, master and speak a foreign language. For this, the treasured 16 hours are needed - to open your eyes.

And until you move on to the second point, firmly remember one simple, but important thought – each of us has already mastered one language.

In my case, it is Russian.

Integrated (volumetric) approach to the study

What is meant by this?

Let's formulate the question differently: How do they teach at school, and what approach does Dmitry Petrov have?

School program

Familiar to most and looks something like this:

• first we teach present simple and long list nouns;
• next lesson Future Simple and some irregular verbs;
• a week later - past simple and try to read;
• at the end - a test for times Simple.

And so in a circle: Simple → Continuous → Perfect → Perfect Continuous, flavoring tenses with interrogative and negative variations, bundles of words and reading texts, most of whose meaning remains a mystery.

And the problem is not only the complexity of the subject or the incorrectness of the methods.

The rate of assimilation of the material

Each person has an individual speed of mastering the material. This applies not only to the English language: all disciplines. Students in one class:

• able to get ahead academic plan;
• coping with the load;
• which hopelessly lag behind and, in the long run (years later), simply "chuck" on the subject.

This situation in education was revealed on the panel Sal Khan, offering to teach not for the sake of passing tests, but for gaining knowledge, developing skills.

The video has English subtitles.

Salkhan. "Learning for improvement, not for passing tests."

English difference

What is the feature? In that:

• half of any textbook is written in an unfamiliar language?
• parents who studied German at school are not able to help with the analysis of the next rule?
• in spite of deep penetration English into our lives, in Russia there is no culture of learning (in comparison, for example, with the Scandinavian countries)?
• our fellow citizens do not have the opportunity to travel around the wide world (to places where knowledge is required foreign languages)?
• society is inert and you need to be patient?

Who knows. Perhaps just a little bit.

But what, as an answer to a dumb question, does the Polyglot offer?

What does the course "Polyglot - English in 16 hours" include

First, let's look at the time tables:

Tenses Present

In one table, the basis of all Simple time is collected. For comparison, in the tutorial I used, this time is scattered across three chapters 6, 11 and 12.

Negative and interrogative form– same story – chapters 8 and 9.

So you have to either invent your own general table times, or each time to shovel the entire textbook.

Continuous times

A similar scheme with extended (long) time.

Of course, English Times are not reduced to two plates. There is the hated Perfect, the terrible Perfect Continuous and, after all, completely incomprehensible. But:

First, these two tables present most used tenses.

Secondly, these times are the basis that will take the weight of other knowledge.

Course vocabulary

The next thing to pay attention to is vocabulary.

The average English speaker is able to actively use 20,000 words. 8.000-9.000 is required for free communication and reading non-specialized literature in the original.

90% of human speech is 300-350 words, regardless of the age of the person, his level of education and the language he speaks. Dmitry Petrov

Below I will leave lists of words that were used in the course "Polyglot - English in 16 hours". Total 300 lexical items:

I did not include here some expressions that were mentioned in the lessons. They were given not as frequent or important, but simply popped up in a conversation or fell into a topic. For example: surrealist (surrealist), whim (whim), cuisine (kitchen: about cooking).

Nouns, adjectives, adverbs

Pronouns

Time indication

Traveler's Concise Dictionary

This collection can be compared with two others:

The main difference between Dmitry Petrov's program and the school course

– minimum (basic) volumes grammar and vocabulary are given immediately, in the first hours of classes. And the main work is being done in bringing their use to automatism (the level of freedom of proficiency in the native language).

Your speech will not become refined and varied. The proposals will be of the same type and insipid in sound. But there will be:

• ease and fluency of pronunciation;
• the ability to convey a message.

Believe me, understanding what is written in a book or a newspaper, heard in a movie or a YouTube video is much easier than starting to write and speak on your own.

Perhaps that is why program participants immediately begin to build proposals.

Using the acquired knowledge

How long does it take before a student can (should) speak English?

According to Dmitry Petrov, less than an hour. Without putting it aside, at the very first lesson, students (even those who have never studied the language) begin to build the simplest sentences. Just subject + verb:

• I open.
• I will open.
• I opened.

An elementary thing, but, like the first step on the surface of the moon, it is a huge leap for that part of humanity that wants to master the English language.

Practice colloquial speech not only develops the most difficult skill, but from the first steps adds confidence. You realize that you are able to speak. And this is a huge plus for motivation - the only critical parameter for the development of any skills.

At the end

I advise you to start practicing right away. grammatical constructions and the words you pass through:

Do it every day. Find an hour, half an hour, ten minutes, but do not stop in progress. As the author of the course advises, find a couple of free minutes several times a day:

• lunch break;
• bus trip;
• trip to the store.

Minutes forming hours on which your success or failure depends.

There are always exceptions

But don't be afraid to say what's for you school years have not been in vain. That after graduation, they could easily go to Britain and talk to a passerby without tension and a shadow of a doubt. I believe that such people exist and for them the program "Polyglot - English in 16 hours" is a long-gone stage.

But from personal experience training in Russian school and looking around right now, I also understand that you are an exception. Most people (in terms of foreign languages) wander in the dark.

Everyone can dispel this darkness. You just need to start stepping into right direction- the one that Dmitry Petrov already suggested with his "Polyglot".

Polyglot English language Basic course is a simulator for learning English, created based on the TV show “Polyglot. Learn English in 16 hours”, shown on the Culture TV channel.

The course "Polyglot English" consists of 16 lessons. Classes require no more than 10-15 minutes a day.

The main thing is not the amount of time, but the regularity. With regular classes, after the first week of training, you can easily communicate simple phrases in English. Even if you started from scratch.

In a programme Polyglot English special learning algorithms are laid down, which, by the method of repeated repetition, literally imprint knowledge of the language into the mind.

Learning takes place in game form and subtly fuels the desire to learn more.

How it works

The program offers you simple expressions in Russian with verbs in one of three tenses (present, past, future) and in one of three forms (affirmative, negative, interrogative).

From the words on the screen you need to compose English translation. If you answered correctly, the program will praise you. If you make a mistake, you will be prompted for the correct answer.

As you compose the answer, the selected words are voiced. Then the correct answer is given.

To move on to the next lesson, you need to score 4.5 points in the previous lesson. Until the points are scored, the lessons remain blocked.

List of lessons

The program contains 16 lessons and an exam.