Dmitry Yuryevich Petrov (; 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.
Finished Translation School of
Moscow State Linguistics University where he teaches, as of 2016, at the Department of Translation Studies and English Translation Practice. Since 2012 has his multilingual language school called Dmitry Petrov's Innovative Communication Linguistics Center
that works using his 16 academic hour method Polyglot 16, implemented in eponymous course books and mobile applications.
Biography
Dmitry Petrov got into
Moscow State Linguistic University in 1975. According to some sources Dmitry Petrov worked with
Soviet
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and
Russian presidents. He was an interpreter for
Mikhail Gorbachev
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,
Boris Yeltsin
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,
Vladimir Putin
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.
He says he can read
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.
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.
In 2014 Dmitry Petrov won a prestigious
TEFI television award for his reality show "Polyglot" on the national intellectual non-profit TV channel Rossiya-K (
Russia-K, with K standing in Russian for Kultura "Culture"), teaching
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.
As of summer 2020, according to his language teaching center
and the TV channel's
websites, there have been 8 seasons of his show: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Hindi/Urdu, Portuguese, Chinese.
References
Literature
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External links
Personal site of Dmitry PetrovLanguage courses that Dmitry Petrov teaches personally*
Dmitriy Petrov Linguistics Center"Roman Holiday with Dmitry Petrov"How to teach a polyglot a new language? Interview with Dmitry Petrov ''Evening Moscow'', 10 January 2014
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ttp://forbes.kz/life/hero/besedyi_s_poliglotom_petrovyim_-_1/?mark=дмитрий%20петров Conversations with polyglot Petrov – 1Forbes.kz
Conversations with polyglot Petrov – 2Forbes.kz
Dmitry Petrov broadcast «Radio Mayak"
Dmitry Petrov in the air of "Echo of Moscow" radio stationDmitry PetrovVokrug TV
Exercises for the lessons of Dmitry PetrovEnglish course ″Polyglot 16″
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1958 births
Living people
People from Novomoskovsky District
Russian television presenters
Soviet translators
Russian translators
Moscow State Linguistic University alumni