Dmitry Petrov, polyglot and TV presenter, will meet with the audience not to give them a lesson in Chinese, Italian or English, but to help them get rid of their fears.
He is sure that a person who is fluent in his native language, by definition, is able to speak in others, but there are many myths that interfere and inhibit at a subconscious level.
Linguist and polyglot Dmitry Petrov knows 35 foreign languages. 50% of learning a foreign language is psychology, he is sure. Each language has not only grammar and vocabulary, but also color, and taste, and smell, and music — all this makes up its space. To find yourself in this space, you need to stop being afraid, stop feeling that this language is foreign, foreign. 50% of the task that the student faces is purely mathematical: you need to master a set of basic formulas, algorithms that are in every language. To do this, you do not need to have any phenomenal abilities — you just need motivation and a little effort.
And as always, Dmitry Petrov will answer numerous questions from the audience during the lecture.
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