Dmitry Yuryevich Petrov (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Петров; born 16 July 1958 in Novomoskovsk, Tula Region) is a Russian polyglot, simultaneous interpreter, lecturer, broadcaster, and teacher. He is a host of the reality show Polyglot on the TV channel Russia-K.[1][2] Finished Translation School[3] of Moscow State Linguistics University where he teaches, as of 2016, at the Department of Translation Studies and English Translation Practice.[4] Since 2012 has his multilingual language school called Dmitry Petrov's Innovative Communication Linguistics Center[5] that works using his 16 academic hour method Polyglot 16, implemented in eponymous course books and mobile applications.
Dmitry Yuryevich Petrov | |
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Дмитрий Юрьевич Петров | |
.jpg) Dmitry Petrov in 2018 | |
| Born | 16 July 1958 (age 66) Novomoskovsk, Russia, USSR |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Linguistic University |
| Occupation(s) | Language teacher, language teaching methodologist, course author, interpreter and translator |
| Employer(s) | Moscow State Linguistic University, Dimitry Petrov's Innovative Communication Linguistics Center, Russia-K TV channel |
| Known for | Polyglot-16 language teaching TV show; being multilingual |
Biography
editDmitry Petrov got into Moscow State Linguistic University in 1975. According to some sources[who?] Dmitry Petrov worked with Soviet and Russian presidents. He was an interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin.[6]
He says he can read[7] in 50 languages and speak in 30, but in general, he works with 8 languages besides Russian: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, Greek, Hindi. His language school website says he mastered over 30 languages.[5]
His wife is from India. Her name is Anamika Saksena (Rus. Анамика Саксена). She was a student of the same university when he was already a teacher there. Her father had worked in Moscow, but left, and she stayed to study and eventually married there. They have two sons and a daughter.[7]
In 2014 Dmitry Petrov won a prestigious TEFI television award for his reality show "Polyglot"[8] on the national intellectual non-profit TV channel Rossiya-K (Russia-K, with K standing in Russian for Kultura "Culture"), teaching[2] English, Chinese and other languages to small groups of popular singers and other media personalities. Each course is supposed to last only 16 hours, which attracts potential students from the stage and general public, but critics say this length will not be sufficient for any real mastering a language with its hundreds of lexical items to learn for even elementary proficiency.[9] As of summer 2020, according to his language teaching center[5] and the TV channel's[2] websites, there have been 8 seasons of his show: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Hindi/Urdu, Portuguese, Chinese.
References
edit- ^ Ю. Фуколова. (3 March 2014). "Синьор полиглот". Коммерсант.ru. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ a b c "Полиглот (все программы) / Телеканал "Россия – Культура"". tvkultura.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ^ "Cайт Дмитрия Ивановича Ермоловича - Дмитрий Петров". yermolovich.ru. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ "День открытых дверей на Переводческом факультете". linguanet.ru. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ a b c "Методика Дмитрия Петрова | Центр Дмитрия Петрова". centerpetrova.ru. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ^ Виктория Юхова (27 January 2014). "Языковой запас". Журнал "Итоги". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
- ^ a b "Анамика Саксена: хождение за три моря. Педагог и полиглот Дмитрий Петров: «Иностранный язык можно выучить в любом возрасте". luna-anapa.ru. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ "Лауреаты премии ТЭФИ 2014!". 28 June 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ Ильясов, Дмитрий. "Почему система Дмитрия Петрова может не сработать?". londonnsk.ru. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
Literature
edit- Петров Д. Ю., Борейко В. Н. (2010). Магия слова. Диалог о языке и языках. М.: ПрозаиК. p. 208. ISBN 978-5-91631-105-1.
External links
edit- Personal site of Dmitry Petrov
- Language courses that Dmitry Petrov teaches personally
- Dmitry Petrov on Facebook
- Dmitriy Petrov Linguistics Center
- "Roman Holiday with Dmitry Petrov"
- How to teach a polyglot a new language? Interview with Dmitry Petrov
- Leading the show "Polyglot" Dmitry Petrov: "Difficulties with Gaius Germanicus? All of us with her features somehow get along " Archived 12 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine Evening Moscow, 10 January 2014
- Conversations with polyglot Petrov – 1 Forbes.kz
- Conversations with polyglot Petrov – 2 Forbes.kz
- Dmitry Petrov broadcast «Radio Mayak" Archived 25 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- Dmitry Petrov in the air of "Echo of Moscow" radio station
- Dmitry Petrov Vokrug TV
- Exercises for the lessons of Dmitry Petrov English course ″Polyglot 16″