Polyglot English language Basic course  - This is a simulator for teaching English, created based on the television show "Polyglot. Learn English in 16 Hours, ”shown on Culture.

The Polyglot English language course consists of 16 lessons. For classes, no more than 10-15 minutes a day are required.

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

In a programme Polyglot English  special learning algorithms are laid that literally imprint the knowledge of the language into the consciousness by the method of repeated repetition.

Training takes place in a playful way and discreetly 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 make an English translation. If you answered correctly, the program will compliment you. If you suddenly make a mistake - will tell you the correct answer.

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

To proceed to the next lesson, you need to score 4.5 points in the previous lesson. Until points are earned, lessons remain blocked.

Lesson list

The program contains 16 lessons and an exam.

It’s probably hard now to find a person who is interested in the topic of studying foreign languages \u200b\u200band at least did not hear briefly about the sensational Polyglot program, literally exploded TV and Internet space a few years ago.

In this article, we will try to figure out whether this technique proposed by Dmitry Petrov is so effective and what pitfalls it hides.

First of all, let's start with the fact that the purpose of this article is not to belittle or insult the remarkable teacher and researcher (and we sincerely think so) Dmitry Petrov, or, God forbid, try to light up due to his authority.

Let's immediately agree on our position - Dmitry Petrov is a really talented linguist who has made a breakthrough in the field of teaching English grammar (primarily English, although editions devoted to other languages \u200b\u200bare already available) and managed to help many people get off the ground in learning a foreign language

For those who, nevertheless, for some reason are not familiar with the Polyglot program, we recommend that you briefly read it here using this link.

So what then do we want to say with such a slogan as "The system of Dmitry Petrov does not work!".

To begin, let's look at the approach of the Polyglot course to the study of grammar. Speaking in 2 words, then 6-8 people with practically zero or very low level of English proficiency were taken as a show experiment and, over several issues, the participants were explained in a schematic, extremely adequate and down-to-earth form the structure of sentences in English, a system for changing endings in verbs depending on time, etc.

What was the sensation of this telecast? Indeed, almost every good teacher practices these approaches to one degree or another. The secret of popularity was precisely in apparent simplicity, quick presentation and assimilation of information. The participants in which we recognized ourselves literally on the fly grasped grammatical constructions, which from the time of school seemed unusually complex.

The system itself is, in general, brilliant in its simplicity. Indeed, everything is laid out on the shelves, clearly, intelligibly, conveniently and is recommended for familiarization to any person who has started to learn English from scratch.

However, what are the pitfalls of this approach? Often, talking on the phone or conducting an interview with another potential student of our school, we are faced with the following questions: “How do you feel about the methodology of Dmitry Petrov?”, “Does your school have Polyglot training?”, “Petrov teaches English in 16 hours, do you have the same accelerated courses "etc. Perhaps some of our readers will find such questions strange, but at our school we hear them all the time.

Frankly, such issues always put our team at a standstill. And that's why. At its core, the system of Dmitry Petrov is a schematic, maximally simplified format (which by the way does not mean at all that it is bad) to present basic information on the structure of the English language for a beginner. And it would not be bad, it would seem that it is bad to convey information to a beginner more intelligibly and legibly? But here one problem pops up - the slogan of the Polyglot program - "English in 16 hours".

Perhaps this particular slogan, and not the filling, first of all fuels the audience’s interest in this format of training. Well, you must admit, if you need to get from point A to point B and the distance between them is 1000 km, then what format of movement do you choose - a bicycle, a car, a reserved seat or a plane? I think that if we are talking about the most efficient use of your time, then you will stop on a plane and overcome this distance in a little more than an hour.

The same situation occurs with the perception of the format of the Polyglot program. A person who decides to study English and studies the situation on the proposal from different schools, private teachers or tutors is looking - here they offer me the Elementary course for 4-5 months. And this is done for Dmitry Petrov in 16 hours. It turns out a certain logical inconsistency. It seems to be, why do 5 months what can be done in 16 hours of work, roughly speaking, 1 week?

This leads to the search for such peculiar "magic pills" from lack of knowledge of English that you can drink for a week and become a "Polyglot". Alas, the reality is that a competent and healthy message - to understand the seemingly complex grammar of English times schematically - has turned into a distorted understanding of the original idea.

The Polyglot program with the slogan "English in 16 hours" gave hope for quick and painless results, which, frankly, require at least 1-2 years of focused work.

A similar slogan stood in line with phrases such as “Pump up your bitsukha by the summer,” “The secret diet of Pugacheva. -30 kg in 1 week,” “Getting rid of hypertension with the help of our miracle powder,” etc.

And this is not the direct fault of Dmitry Petrov (although from the point of view of marketing it is obvious that the program was created with the aim of attracting as many audiences as possible through such a slogan). Here lies the mental trap of our mind, who wants to get everything quickly, painlessly and with minimal investment.

Here I would like to dwell in more detail and note 2 key points that people who have decided to learn English in 16 hours are not aware of:

1. Any grammatical structure, whether it is a change in the form of a verb, a scheme for constructing sentences, a scheme for affirmations / negatives, requires working out and introducing mechanical memory into the format of automatism.

This is actually what Dmitry says in the very first issue. However, this information is usually not perceived consciously. What is the use of the fact that you figured out how to build a proposal on the diagram. Can you speak more or less freely now? Well, with the right degree of quick wits and quick thinking, you can. Only very slowly, with a notebook and with "ekanami" and "akanyami".

It must be understood that any scheme, even as clearly as possible, requires systematic repetition in speech, working out in dialogs, reading aloud, memorizing some fragments and listening. This is where all the other months of training at the Elementary level go, in addition to the proposed 16 hours. Such skills cannot be fixed in a day or two. it takes several weeks, and the final formation of the skill about 3-4 months. And we are only talking about a basic level! What are 16 hours?

Most people do not think about it. perceiving language as a skill like riding a bicycle or playing solitaire. It seems like he took it, he learned and that's it - you will not forget it anymore.

If you are also tempted by the desire to learn English in 16 hours, then understand that there are things that will not happen ahead of time, even if you break into a cake. A woman cannot give birth to a healthy baby before 8-9 months. So it is here.

By the way, the same 16 hours of study in the Polyglot format with a lesson duration of 1 hour and 2 times a week give a minimum of 2 months of classes. So 16 hours here in the first place should be understood as an advertising move.

2. Vocabulary.

The fact that the language is not only grammar but also crazy, from the point of view of memory load, the amount of information many also do not think about.

Let's even assume that you have perfectly mastered the basic grammar of 4-6 basic English tenses in 16 hours and can even relatively freely construct sentences in your speech (although practice shows that 9 out of 10 people are not capable of this in such a period of time).

What words will you say? :) The initial, basic set of words with which you can communicate on key topics and understand the answers is at least 500-1000 words.

I repeat, 500-1000 words. To imagine the amount of such information, try learning 30 words a day for a week. At the exit, after 7 days, ceteris paribus, if you are not doing just that, you will most likely have cereal in your head.

The formation of such a volume of vocabulary in most people takes from 3-6 months to a year (depending on the level of diligence and perseverance of the student). Therefore, again, no “English in 16 hours” will save you from having to learn this basis of words.

And if we talk about confident knowledge of English at least at the intermediate level, then this is already 1500-3000 words. This level is achieved in 1-2 years.

To summarize the main essence of the idea, I didn’t want to say that Dmitry Petrov’s system is bad, inefficient, or it’s total quackery. The problem is in its perception by many people who are looking for format freebies to put on a bracelet and recover, drink magic powder and build muscle.

You need to understand that learning English, as if we did not want the opposite, is a long and systematic process that takes different people from 1 to 5 years of constant work. And even having reached a certain level of language, it is necessary to maintain it in a lively active form and constant practice.

And the Polyglot format system is just an excellent and modern help along this path, designed to facilitate the process of mastering the language and remove certain psychological complexes about learning English, which have been present in many since the poor language education at school.

But this system can in no way serve as a panacea and the only source of education. If you really want to seriously learn English, then it’s better to start by finding a good, proven school or find a teacher and start training. Yes, it may not be so fun and easy. Or maybe the process will go easy for you. No one knows. But one thing is certain for sure - magic tablets do not exist and only you, with your zeal and perseverance, can achieve the goals that you set for yourself.

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In 2012, the first season of the reality show appeared on the Culture channel - Polyglot - English in 16 hours.  An ambitious goal is voiced immediately, in the title of the program.

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

16 lessons with an experienced teacher, during which the following were to be held:

• compile a basic dictionary;
• master the basics of grammar;
• and ultimately speak up.

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

- to help students enjoy their classes and make it clear that making tangible progress in learning a foreign language is not a fairy tale, but a reality.

Not to intimidate with deliberate complexity, but to open up new spaces: so as not to suffer over the next exercise or a pile of words, but to live with the tongue, take the most desirable, necessary for:

• communication with foreigners: on social networks, on forums, on trips abroad;
• view movies and TV shows in the original
• access to information sources.

In 16 hours it is possible:

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

Dmitry Petrov

  - the person who undertook the solution of the problem:

• Linguist and part-time polyglot. In varying degrees, is familiar with more than 30 languages.
• Simultaneous translator. It works with the main European languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. And, not so revered among the masses, Czech, Greek and Hindi.
• Lecturer at Moscow State Linguistic University.
• The author of the book “Word Magic”.

But not in the ranks 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 the richness of the language. They need a faster and more practical result. 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

Personally, I identified two main advantages of Petrov’s lessons, which 100% agree with the main points of the program itself:

• increased motivation;
• submission of bases in a concise, concise form.

Let's consider these points in more detail.

Polyglot - English in 16 hours - a reality!

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

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

Memories of school hardships do not help promotion. Memories:

• about cereal in the head after school;
• about a thick fog covering his eyes when trying to cope with homework.

So is it possible to overcome unbelief and change the perception of English as a kind of Holy Grail, about which everyone heard, but few saw?

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

No!

This is impossible, despite the promises of pseudo-linguists, not for a week, not for 3 months. In such a short period of time, you can only master the alphabet tightly.

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

No one ever set out to teach a language in 16 hours. It is 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 \u200b\u200b(he who knows more than one) assures that you are able to understand, master and speak a foreign language. For this, the treasured 16 hours are necessary - to open your eyes.

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

In my case, it's Russian.

Comprehensive (volumetric) approach to the study

What is meant by this?

We formulate the question differently: How are they taught at school, and what approach does Dmitry Petrov have?

School program

Familiar to most and looks something like this:

• first learn Present Simple and a long list of nouns;
• in the next lesson, Future Simple and some irregular verbs;
• in a week - Past Simple and try to read;
• at the end - a test at the time of Simple.

And so in a circle: Simple → Continuous → Perfect → Perfect Continuous,  sprinkling times with questioning and negative variations, packs of words and reading texts, most of the meaning of which remains a mystery.

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

The rate of assimilation of material

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

• able to get ahead of the curriculum;
• coping with the load;
• who hopelessly lag behind and, ultimately (after years), simply "hammer" on the subject.

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

English subtitles are available in the video.

Sal Khan. “Learning to improve, not pass tests.”

English difference

What is the peculiarity? In that:

• is half of any textbook written in an unfamiliar language?
• parents who studied German at school are not able to help with the analysis of the next rule?
• despite the deep penetration of the English language into our lives, in Russia there is no education culture (in comparison, for example, with the Scandinavian countries)?
• our fellow citizens do not have the opportunity to travel around the world (to places where knowledge of foreign languages \u200b\u200bis required)?
• society is inert and need patience?

Who knows. Perhaps a little bit of everything.

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

What includes the course "Polyglot - English in 16 hours"

First, consider the time tables:

Present Times

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

Negative and interrogative forms are the same story - chapters 8 and 9.

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

Continuous Times

A similar pattern and with an extended (long) time.

Of course, English times are not reduced to two tablets. There is everyone hated Perfect, terrible Perfect Continuous and after the completely incomprehensible. But:

First, these two tables present most used times.

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

Course vocabulary

The next thing you should pay attention to is vocabulary.

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

90% of human speech is in 300-350 words,  regardless of the person’s age, 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 units:

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

Nouns, adjectives, adverbs

Pronouns

Time indication

Travel Brief Dictionary

This selection can be compared with two others:

The main difference between the program of Dmitry Petrov from the school course

- minimum (base) volumes grammar and vocabulary  are given immediately, in the first hours of classes. And the main work is carried out in bringing their use to automaticity (the level of freedom of knowledge of the mother tongue).

Your speech will not be exquisite and varied. Offers will be the same and fresh in sound. But will appear:

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

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

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

Use of acquired knowledge

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

According to Dmitry Petrov, less than an hour. Without delaying, in the very first lesson, students (even those who have never studied the language) begin to build simple sentences. Just a subject + predicate:

• I open.
• I will open.
• I opened.

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

The practice of speaking not only develops the most difficult skill, but from the first steps adds confidence. You understand that you can talk. 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 immediately begin to practice those grammatical constructions and words that you pass:

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

• lunch break;
• bus ride;
• shopping trip.

The minutes that make up the hours on which your success or failure depends.

There are always exceptions

But do not be afraid to say that your school years were not in vain. That after graduation they could easily go to Britain and speak with a passerby without tension and a shadow of doubt. I believe that such people exist and for them the program “Polyglot - English in 16 hours” is a long past stage.

But from my personal experience of studying at a 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.

To dispel this darkness under the power of everyone. It is only necessary to begin to step in the right direction - the one that Dmitry Petrov has already prompted with his Polyglot.

The intellectual reality show of the “Culture” TV channel, the intensive training video course “Polyglot” consists of 16 lessons - English lessons, the purpose of which is to learn to speak English. The developer of this unique system, as well as the teacher during all classes, is Dmitry Petrov, a well-known linguist, translator, polyglot in Russia who speaks thirty languages.

Polyglot. English in 16 hours.

  The classes are attended by eight students (who are media persons - TV presenters, directors, actors) who practically do not know English, except at the level of first-graders of high school. But by the end of the course, they will already be able to explain in English, using complex and correct word conversations. Here is what Petrov himself says about this interactive course:

To master the English language perfectly, life is not enough. To learn to speak professionally, you also need to spend a lot of time, effort and energy. But in order to learn how to understand people in an elementary way, to be understood, and most importantly to get rid of the fear, which for many hinders every desire and opportunity to be explained in the language, this takes no more than a few days. What I offer you, I have experienced on myself and on a fairly large number of people. I am a professional translator, linguist, I am engaged in professional translation in a number of languages, I teach others about it. And, gradually, a certain approach, a mechanism was developed. I must say that such a progression is observed - each subsequent language requires less effort and time. A week is enough for any language. What is a language? - Language is a new look at the world surrounding reality. This is the ability to switch, click. And as in the receiver, we change one program for another, tune in to another wave. What is required of you is motivation (a desire to travel, something related to the profession, with training and communication, it can be friendship or love)

See all Polyglot lessons. English in 16 hours for free on the site Fascinating English:

The app “Polyglot TV - English for 16 lessons” includes 16 lessons:

Now all 16 lessons! Which include over 70 thematic workouts.

Application features:

• Speaking of answers
• Response Statistics
• Auxiliary table
• Training Dictionary
• Full compendium of 16 lessons of TV shows

   Grammar topics:

• Personal, possessive, reflexive, indefinite pronouns
• Based verb scheme
• Times: simple, continuous, perfect
• Verbs: all forms
• Verb to be
• Passive voice
• Prepositions
• Adjectives: degrees of comparison
• Time parameters
• Motivating and imperative sentences
• Conditional sentences, the union "to"
• Modal Verbs: can, should
• Ordinals

   Conversational topics:

• About me, what I do
• Etiquette: greetings, goodbyes
• Sensual states
• About weather
• and many others

   Modes:

• "Remembering words and phrases"
• "Making proposals"
• Oral Mode
• "Free training"

Polígloto 16 - English

La aplicacíon Políglota representa una metodología única de aprender inglés en poco tiempo. Elaborada por el linguïsta ruso Dmitry Petrov la metodología ofrece una oportunidad de aprender la estructura de la lengua y empezar a hablar sin dificultades.

Dmitry Petrov es psicolinguïsta con fama internacional. Gracias a su propio metodología de enseñar lenguas extranjeras él mismo habla más que 30 idiomas. Trabaja como intérprete simultáneo y profesor de lenguas extranjeras en muchos países por todo el mundo. Su metodología también ha sido reconocida e incluida en el sistema de eneñanza estatal en algunos paises.

La metodología explica cómo se combinan palabaras en una frase inglesa. Es un método combinatorio que ayuda a construir numerosas frases usando pocas palabras.

El método consiste en 2 etapas. Al principio los estudiantes llegan a saber una estructura inglesa y luego la practican en los ejercicios.

Spanish

Now ALL 16 lessons! Over 60 workouts!

An effective technique with grammatical explanations gives 100% RESULT.

Polyglot TV - will be very useful to everyone who watched the popular reality show "Polyglot. Learn Spanish in 16 hours!"

APPLICATION FEATURES:

• Speaking of answers
• Response Statistics
• Auxiliary table
• Visual hint
• Oral mode, the mode of memorizing words and phrases
• Full synopsis
• Built-in grammar description for each workout, for each sentence

SPEAKING TOPICS

• About me, what I do
• Etiquette: greetings, goodbyes

MODES

• "Remembering words and phrases"
• "Making proposals"
• Oral Mode
• "Free training"

SOME TIPS:

• Trainings are held sequentially
• To voice answers, you need a good internet connection
• Oral mode is available after training.
• For help, use the "quick help" - the question mark is on the bottom left
• To cancel the selected word - tap the sentence
• To change the offer, swipe on the offer line from right to left

Russian language

Polyglot 16 Russian language. The official app of Dmitry Petrov. For students of the Russian language.

The Polyglot 16 - Russian application will help you study Russian with ease.
After 16 lessons you will master the basic Russian grammar and remember more than 500 Russian words. Effective exercises will help you practice grammar and vocabulary.

ABOUT AUTHOR
   Dmitry Petrov is a linguist, who knows 30 different languages \u200b\u200band does professional simultaneous interpretation in 8 of them. He is an author of some rapid language learning methods, including parallel learning of several languages.

KEY FEATURES:

• 16 units, more than 60 practice exercises for various topics
• Answers synchronization
• Thorough explanation of the Russian grammar
• Vocabulary practice exercises
• Results record
• Various learning modes