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English in 16 hours is a real gift from the famous linguist Dmitry Petrov and the Kultura TV channel. A video course of 16 lessons, after which you will be able to speak English. This is the most useful English course for beginners I have ever seen. Below is the full text of the lesson. Watch and read, you won’t regret it!

Good afternoon Today we will begin a course that will take 16 lessons. Our goal is to learn to speak English. To master a language perfectly, even a lifetime is not enough. To learn 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 the fear that for many inhibits any desire and ability to communicate in language - I am sure that this will take no more than a few days.

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

- How many languages ​​do you know?

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

- And what, you learned all these languages ​​in just a few lessons?!

Yes, if we are talking about the second category of languages, this 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 look at the world, at the surrounding reality. This is the ability to switch, that is, to make a click - just like in a receiver we change one program to another - to tune in to a different wave. What is required on your part is, first of all, motivation. It could be just a desire to travel, it could be something related to a profession, training, or communication. It could be friendship and, finally, love.

Now we will try to figure out what was stopping you from learning the language along the way. Because you might think that we are talking about some kind of miracle: how can you speak a 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 basic things in it? Therefore, I will ask you to start by giving your names and in a nutshell, say what has been a significant difficulty for you until now, why don’t you still 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 it and...

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

Please, what is your name?

- Daria.

How was your relationship with language?

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

Well, laziness is a state and a quality worthy of respect. We must accept everything that is in us. Because fighting laziness is unrealistic. Therefore, I want to tell you good news: in addition to the fact that our course is quite compact (it’s not years or months, it’s 16 lessons, by the end of which, I hope, if you help me and take a step forward, you and I will simply speak English) you will have to do some things on your own, but another good news is that you won't 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 to repeat for a few minutes each day certain things that I will ask you to do at the end of each lesson. I can't believe you don't have 5 minutes 2-3 times a day to repeat certain structures. What is it for? The amount of information that is really worth mastering, learning, cramming into yourself does not exceed the multiplication table. It will be necessary to bring several basic structures to automation. What does it mean? Bring them to the level at which, for example, our legs work when they walk, how the structures of our native language work for us. This is quite real.

Please, what is your name?

- My name is Anna. The formal approach prevented me from learning English. Because I actually did well in school, and the generally simple things we studied boiled down to patterns that I can’t use when I meet a real person. Now, for example, a man from Dublin came to visit us, and I feel that there is no full communication taking place. I’m offended, time is running out... At the same time, I remember that I know everything, I have a 5 in English: the table is white, the wall is black, everything is fine, but there’s nothing to say!

Resentment is a very powerful motivation! OK, thank you! You?

- My name is Vladimir. I'm just ashamed. I feel bad when I can't express myself. I understand that it is quite relaxing, as I once had, I was talking to an Englishman after a couple of beers - I could communicate with him easily. For some reason, I didn’t like studying since childhood. I had the feeling that I knew everything. I have a feeling that I also know English. Sometimes in my dreams I speak easily and understand everything. Sometimes watching a film in English, I fall asleep and begin to understand it. But I could never learn to speak.

- My name is Anastasia. It seems to me that my lack of immersion in the environment is hindering me. Because when I start teaching myself and studying from books, these patterns begin: what comes first, what comes next, all the verbs... I can’t improvise anymore, I always remember this pattern in my head and think that I need to substitute it there.

Absolutely right! Our goal is to ensure that this scheme does not need to be remembered.

- My name is Alexandra. What probably hinders me is that there is a huge range of different methods and schools. I have a huge amount of information in my head, but I still can’t talk about the past, future and present. I get confused in these forms and, naturally, after 10 minutes my interlocutor says OK... :)

Well, maybe you are generally philosophical about time?.. As the course progresses, 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, which, as it seems to me, I now know at the level of “yours, mine understands.”

- My name is Alice. I was always hampered 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 three-dimensional. 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 syndrome: learned, passed and forgotten. To learn a language extensively, it is not enough to know words; you need to feel your physical presence in a new environment. Therefore, an image and some kind of emotional attachments and sensations must be connected. Now, if I ask you a question offhand, when they talk about the English language, what association comes to mind? Here English language- what came immediately?

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

From childhood and for free :)

- And I remember the book. The Shakespeare edition is old, old! At my parents. Such a brown cover... I’ve been leafing through it since childhood, thinking, oh 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. Moreover, it must be said that when we talked about the number of words that need to be mastered, there is the following statistics: regardless of our age, level of education, or the language we speak, 90% of our speech is 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 about either the present, the future, or the past.
We can either affirm or deny something, or ask a question.
And here we get a table of 9 possible options.

Let's take some 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”. Sometimes they mistakenly claim that everything in English is “you”. Nothing like this! In English everything starts with “you”. There is a word for “you” in English, but it is only used when addressing God, in prayers, in the Bible, etc. This word is thou, but we won’t even write it down, because it’s a rare native speaker who even knows it.

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

In any language that we take on, in my opinion, it is necessary to give all forms of the verb at once, so that we can immediately see the three-dimensional structure. It’s 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's a video there. Dragunkin explains everything very clearly :)

To form the past tense, add the letter d:

I loved
he loved
she loved

To form the future tense, the auxiliary word will is added: 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.

- So when we were taught it, it had already been canceled?

It was no longer there!)

And here we have the affirmative form of the verb.

- What is “it”?

“It” no. There is no word “it” in English because there is no gender. The Russian language has masculine, feminine and neuter gender, while the English language has none. The word it simply means “this” and has nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, many who were taught in school that he, she, it are three genders, remained in this misconception. There is no gender in English! There is one common genus. He and she are words indicating a person's gender, but they are not grammatical gender. In Russian it is big/bolshaya/bolshoe, in English it will all be big.

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

Absolutely. Therefore, we have to look for some other means.

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Negative form: don’t is added:

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

Negative form in 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. Once you have mastered it, it’s like mastering half 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 is added.

Interrogative form in past tense: DID.

Interrogative form in the future tense: WILL.

The result is a system of coordinates: first I decide whether I AFFIRM, ASK or DENIAL, then I find out whether it WAS, IS or WILL BE?

Here is this list, in which there are 50 - 60 verbs that every person constantly uses (there are, of course, 1000 others, but they occupy 10%). There are 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 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. Let's take the irregular (super-irregular) verb see:

I don't see. It doesn't

Nothing has changed yet...

And only in one case (a 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 must be lumped together with the verb form.

In all other 8 cases, whether the verb is regular or irregular is not important.

Tell me, are “he came” and “he came” the same thing in English?

The concept of aspect (perfective aspect / imperfective aspect) exists 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. This takes from 20 to 30 seconds. Then take another verb. When mastering structures, regularity of repetition is much more important than the amount of time. It is very important. You will see that after 2-4 lessons this structure will work automatically.

Is this diagram clear? There are several other schemes that are simpler, smaller in volume and more understandable. But everything is based on this scheme, so it needs to be brought to automaticity. When you try to speak, this is the first thing to do. And you either need to spend time and energy on this to glue it together on your internal monitor, or make sure that it works on its own, for you.

With regular repetition, after a few days, this structure will begin to work automatically, which may not have happened for many years.

Usually this is given very piecemeal and the relationship is not explained. When there is no single three-dimensional picture, problems arise that haunt many people for years.

With this we will finish our first lesson, and I really hope that you will find a few minutes to try to move this structure towards automation. Goodbye!

Polyglot English Basic Course is a simulator for teaching 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. Exercises 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 will easily be able to communicate in simple phrases in English. Even if you started training from scratch.

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

Learning occurs in a playful way and quietly fuels the desire to learn further.

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 create an English translation. If you answered correctly, the program will praise you. If you suddenly make a mistake, it will tell you the correct answer.

As you compose your answer, the selected words are spoken out. Then the correct answer is announced.

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

List of lessons

The program contains 16 lessons and an exam.

The intellectual reality show of the Kultura TV channel is an intensive course in learning English. The teacher is a real polyglot, who speaks 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.

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

Here's what Petrov himself says about this interactive course:

“To master the English language perfectly, even a lifetime is not enough. To learn 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 the fear that many people have that inhibits any desire and opportunity to express themselves in language, this requires no more than a few days.

What I offer you, I have experienced on myself and on quite a large number of people. I am a professional translator, linguist, I do professional translation in a number of languages, and I teach it to others. And, gradually, a certain approach and mechanism was developed. It must be said that there is such a progression - each subsequent language requires less effort and time.

A week is enough for any language. What is language? – Language is a new look at the world, the surrounding reality. It's the ability to switch, to make a click. And just like in a receiver, we change one program to another, tune in to a different wave.

What is required on your part is motivation (the desire to travel, something related to the profession, learning and communication, it could be friendship or love)"

At each lesson, what has been learned is consolidated and new grammatical and lexical material is introduced. By the end, students have mastered basic grammatical patterns and can use them fluently in their speech.

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

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Not long ago, the intellectual reality show “Polyglot” appeared on the “Culture” TV channel. In this reality show, the famous polyglot and translator Dmitry Petrov, who knows more than 30 languages, appears as a teacher.

So, Dmitry Petrov has developed an intensive course for studying foreign languages, according to which, within 16 lessons, you can master communication skills in a foreign language!

The famous polyglot has simplified the English language learning program as much as you can imagine. Students, in the first lesson, do not learn the alphabet, and then the famous and incomprehensible 44 sounds of English phonetics! The first lesson begins with a kind of warm-up - you are asked to realize what has so far kept you from mastering a foreign language. Laziness, lack of incentive, lack of free time, the wrong approach to learning a language, which frightened people more than attracted them into further language learning - these are all fairly common reasons.
This is the main advantage of the course proposed by Petrov, it is a minimum of time spent, only 16 lessons, a minimum of complex and voluminous grammar, which creates complete “chaos”.

Polyglot 1 lesson

So, lesson 1: essentially, in communication we use three forms: affirmation, denial, question, and this applies to any language. We want to either assert something, or ask something, or if we do not agree with something, therefore, we deny.
Now, some more understandable scheme begins to take shape:

However, what we want to ask, say or refute - is, was or will be? There is also a temporary need. Based on it, we get the following table:

Here is the table Dmitry Petrov offers:

This table includes the three tenses most used in English: Present Simple, Future Simple, Past Simple. Not only are they the most commonly used in spoken language, but they are also quite easy to use. As a rule, if the explanation is readily available, these times are rarely problematic.

Let's find out what these three English tenses are and why Petrov included them in the first lesson as basic ones. Watch the first video lesson online.

Present Simple

Present Simple- used in cases where we are talking about ordinary or regularly repeated actions. For example: daily routine, some habits, some regular activities.

For example:
Every week, I want to visit a friend.
I visit my friend every week.
My dad drinks coffee in the evenings.
My father drink coffee every evening.
Past Simpe is formed very easily, let’s take any verb as an example.
Let’s say the verb to write is to write
In the infinitive, only the particle to disappears, the verb itself remains unchanged in all persons except she (she), he (he) - in these persons, s is added to the verb:
I WRITE
YOU WRITE
HE, SHE WRITES
WE WRITE
YOU WRITE
THEY WRITE
To form questions and negations, we use the auxiliary verb DO (Does - for she, he).

Past Simple

Past Simple- denotes an action that took place at a certain time in the past, the time for performing this action has already expired. Usually, using this time, we indicate the moment at which the action was performed, for example: three days ago, in 2000 (in 2000).
Tense is also formed very easily: we add d to the verb in the infinitive.
He, she are no exception!
For example, take the verb - to imagine (imagine)
I IMAGINED
YOU IMAGINED
HE, SHE IMAGINED
WE IMAGINED
YOU IMAGINED
THEY IMAGINED
To form questions and negations, we use the auxiliary verb DID.

Future simple

Future simple - a simple future tense, denotes an action that will take place in the future, often in an uncertain future.
The Future simple is formed using the word WILL before the verb, naturally, without the particle to.
There are no changes to the verb itself.
For example, the verb to teach is to learn
I WILL LEARN
YOU WILL LEARN
HE, SHE WILL LEARN
WE WILL LEARN
YOU WILL LEARN
THEY WILL LEARN
To form questions and negations, we use Will, which we already know.

When translating into Russian, auxiliary words like those listed: DO (DOES), DID, WILL are not translated.

In fact, these times are important to know, and they should not cause difficulties. THE MAIN THING IS TO BRING THEIR USE, IN SPEECH, TO AUTOMATISM . To do this, you need to spend 5 minutes every day, several times a day, in order to learn and use it without difficulty. “The regularity of repetition is more important than the amount of time you spend studying...” - as the polyglot says.

The table of times presented above is no more complicated than the multiplication table and we should know it as well as the multiplication table. You need to bring the time table to automaticity. Here is the main task after the first lesson.

It is also suggested to learn the following verbs:

• love love
• work
• live live
• start start
• finish ["fɪnɪʃ] finish
• open ["əʋpən] open
• close close
• think [Ɵɪŋk] to think
• come
• see see
• go go
• know

That's all the task you need to do. Yes, yes, there won’t be a long list of exercises.

All the best in your studies. And remember, Dmitry Petrov’s method of learning English can only work if you work.

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English in 16 hours online with Dmitry Petrov

"Polyglot. English course"– the first season of an intellectual reality show on TV channel "Russia - Culture" broadcast from January 16 to February 9, 2012. Dmitry Petrov's program, broadcast on one of the country's main television channels, teaches all viewers and participants to quickly master the language, which can be used immediately after the first lesson.
Dmitry Petrov- an expert in more than 30 languages ​​of the world, an excellent psycholinguist, simultaneous translator, and methodologist for quickly introducing language into students’ heads. His book “The Magic of the Word” has long broken circulation records for educational books. His technique really gives excellent results in a short time. Comfortable learning a new language for Dmitry Petrov is the main priority in the presentation of material. He teaches ordinary expressions and words, and then reinforces complex figures of speech in a foreign language.
There are 8 students in the group. All students either do not know the language they are studying at all, or, at best, they have vague memories of the school curriculum. Already in the first lesson they begin to communicate in the language. With mistakes, with long pauses, with tension, but progress is noticeable immediately. Anyone can watch lessons and learn - both a child who goes to primary school and a pensioner sitting at home.
Your main task for yourself Dmitry Petrov considers not only machine learning, but also memorization for many years.
The program consists of 16 episodes, each episode lasts about 45 minutes - this is quite a long time for a lesson, so you need to pay very close attention to every minute of this precious and intelligent show. TV viewers notice progress literally from the second or third program. Each subsequent lesson consolidates the material covered and gradually moves on to new grammatical and lexical material.
Program “Polyglot. Learn English in 16 hours!" It is very useful in our difficult times, when foreign language lessons are quite expensive for the average person, and not everyone is able to study independently correctly.
Dmitry Petrov about the success of my students: “During the intensive course that I offer, I try to create in students a fireproof stock of knowledge, which, at a maximum, can serve as a good basis for continuing their studies, and at a minimum will ensure that the language will never again be perceived as foreign , will evoke positive emotions and, if you return to it even after some time, you will not have to start learning it again from scratch. But, of course, to use it effectively, additional regular training will be required.”
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