Polyglot English language 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 repetition literally imprinting knowledge of the language into the consciousness.
Training takes place in game form 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 make 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.
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 course in English for beginners that I have ever seen. Below is the text of the video. 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 on the world, on 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 great amount English words - consciously or on a subconscious level, 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 makes it difficult to use words effectively, so one of the basic principles 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. 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 bothers me is that there is a huge spectrum 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 hindered 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's one there common gender. He and she are words indicating gender person, but this is not a 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.
…
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%). Eat 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 - correct or irregular verb- doesn't matter.
Tell me, are “he came” and “he came” the same thing in English?
The concept of type ( perfect view / imperfect species) is found 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!
There is nothing easier than learning English. It only takes a few hours! This is what they say in D. Petrov’s video lessons “Polyglot: English in 16 hours.” The course was first broadcast on the Kultura TV channel, but quickly gained popularity online. The eminent expert Dmitry Petrov teaches foreign languages to show business stars and ordinary people. From scratch!
We at Tap to English love this course for its simplicity, accessibility and effectiveness. It is suitable for beginners of any age! How to improve your results from watching polyglot lessons, spending only 16 hours on English? Let's find out in today's article.
Polyglot: English from the pros
Who is Dmitry Petrov? Dmitry Yuryevich is one of the most famous simultaneous interpreters in Russia and neighboring countries. It’s not for nothing that Petrov’s course is called “Polyglot” - English is not the only language that the expert speaks perfectly! The teacher can speak freely and translate speech and texts in 8 languages, including:
English
Spanish
Czech
Italian
French
German
Hindi
Greek
At the same time, Petrov also understands the structure and grammar of another 50 languages of the world! There is a lot to learn from him, 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 polyglot's video, in 16 hours of lessons you can take your English from scratch to a high-quality conversational level. Of course, the course requires a lot internal work and perseverance.
It is not necessary to view the lessons every day, get into the habit of opening the polyglot page 16 hours in advance on the tap2eng website at least every other day - this way you won’t get tired of English, and the material will be well understood!
But keep in mind that on a day of rest from watching polyglot lessons, you should at least look at the notes you made yourself. Repeat new words, explain the rules to yourself mentally again. And the next day you receive new information from the video. For greater efficiency, you can create your own training schedule. Or use the tap2eng system, created based on “Polyglot: English in 16 hours of lessons”:
Polyglot: English from scratch in 16 hours using a simple system
Follow these points to move through the material quickly and with good results:
1. Set aside more than an hour a day to watch the lessons. You will often pause the video to record or repeat information.
2. Keep a separate notebook or file on your computer where you will enter notes and notes.
3. At the end of each polyglot lesson - English from scratch in 16 hours - look through your notes, mark in a contrasting color the blocks of information you do not understand.
4. The next day, do not watch the video, but repeat what you learned yesterday or deal with incomprehensible information.
5. Spend 20-30 minutes 2 times a week learning new English words. Note down their transcriptions in your notes.
6. Make notes in the margins while watching the video - what do you need to learn, what do you need to fully understand, what do you need to practice outside of class?
Polyglot - English from scratch in 16 hours - extremely effective system program to develop speaking skills.
Polyglot Dmitry Petrov: “English in 16 hours of lessons is real!”
Dmitry Petrov’s program “Polyglot” would not be so popular if English lessons, distributed over 16 hours, did not bring results. The learning process is unfolding right before the eyes of television and Internet viewers. First-time participants are initially invited to the program.
If you are just a beginner, this video course will help you. With due perseverance and desire, in the time stated by Petrov - 16 hours - you will become a polyglot, watching lesson after lesson. Or at least become interested in the topic! And this is an excellent foundation for the future.
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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Lesson #1
Participants in the show begin a course of 16 lessons. Everyone's goal is to learn to speak English. To master a language perfectly, even a lifetime is not enough. But it only takes a few days to simply learn to understand people and to be understood, Dmitry Petrov is sure.Lesson #2
The verb in every language is the stem. The list of verbs that every 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, or ask something. The result is a table of 9 cells: tic-tac-toe.Lesson #3
Most of us know a huge number of English words. Consciously or on a subconscious level. English words hover everywhere. But they can be compared to a scattering of beads, which themselves are scattered, but the systems are not. The lack of a system prevents them from being used effectively, so one of the basic principles of 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 suggests working it out using a basic scheme and bringing it to automaticity. This is the first step that needs to be taken in order to reach the level of fluent, relaxed language proficiency during the course.Lesson #5
Do you think it is possible to learn 50,000 words in a minute? Each of you can make a bet with those who do not know what is possible. The situation is simple. In English, Russian and a number of other languages there are a large number of words with the same ending. So, in the Russian language, about 50 thousand words end in -tsia or -siya. In English, most of these words have the same root and end in -tion or -sion. According to statistics, there are several tens of thousands of such words.Lesson #6
Dmitry Petrov's students, using the structures 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 remove the psychological barrier.Lesson #7
Dmitry Petrov's method is not to cram the language, but to penetrate it in order to feel comfortable in the new language environment. Probably for this reason, the show participants decided to master professional vocabulary. Six of them are media persons - actors, directors, TV presenters.Lesson #8
Dmitry Petrov and the show participants 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 arise.Lesson #9
One must speak without hesitation, with pleasure, figuratively, Dmitry Petrov believes. If you pay attention exclusively to grammatical structures and the number of words learned, then success is hardly possible. And if the language is perceived not as a textbook or dictionary, but as something living, changeable, filled with vivid images, these barriers disappear. This is exactly the approach Petrov follows when working with students in the studio.Lesson #10
In the tenth lesson, project participants continue free and creative communication on topics that interest them. Of course, they don’t do everything exactly and correctly, but Dmitry Petrov is in no hurry to correct grammatical errors 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 - 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 what principle is best to form the basis of a language and explains by what mechanisms to gain the necessary vocabulary. Students describe the image they associate with learning English and eagerly wait for the teacher to reveal to them all 30 “magic” verbs with which they can talk about everything.Hello! The reality show “Polyglot”, which was launched by the TV channel “Culture”, caused a great resonance in society. What caused the increased public interest in this project? Already from the title you can guess that we will talk about foreign language, or rather about English. But first things first.
What is the value of the Polyglot project?
The format of this show provides the opportunity for viewers not only to observe the successes of the participants, but also to actively learn English themselves during the same 16 lectures. That is, you can also watch the video, read additional materials, complete assignments and start speaking English in a few weeks.
The developer of the “Polyglot” system and the teacher of 16 English classes is a famous linguist, polyglot (30 languages!) - Dmitry Petrov. The goal of the project is to teach English in 16 hours. Petrov’s method is to penetrate English and feel comfortable in this language environment.
A group of 8 students, most of them famous people, participate in the intellectual show. All participants in “Polyglot” either do not know English at all, or have a vague understanding of it from school. 
In any case, they will have to learn English from scratch in 16 lessons. Already in the 1st lesson, students begin to learn new words and try to communicate in English. With tension, long pauses, with mistakes, but still progress is immediately noticeable.
16 killer hours of English
In all 16 lessons, which last no more than an hour, participants recall and consolidate what they have learned, then learn a new group of words and phrases. New lexical and grammatical material is introduced. By the end of the “Polyglot” course, in 16 hours, students master basic grammatical patterns, are easily explained in English, and use complex phrases correctly.
We will provide you with 16 video lessons of the intellectual show "Polyglot", as well as auxiliary test materials that will help you consolidate the material faster and more effectively, as well as tips with the correct pronunciation.
Each lesson is discussed in detail in a separate article.
Watch a series of 16 Polyglot English lessons
Have you already completed training in the Polyglot system? Have you managed to learn English from scratch? What was the most difficult thing during these 16 hours?
The project participants proved by their own example that this system is effective, that you can learn English from scratch in just 16 lessons! The main thing is desire, perseverance and a lot of work. But is the result worth it?!
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