Dmitry Petrov (translator)

Dmitry Yuryevich Petrov (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Петров; born 16 July 1958 in Novomoskovsk, Tula Region) is a self-proclaimed Russian polyglot, simultaneous interpreter, lecturer, broadcaster, teacher. He is a host of a reality show "Polyglot" on 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.

For other people named Dmitry Petrov, see Dmitry Petrov (disambiguation).

Dmitry Yu. Petrov
Дмитрий Юрьевич Петров
Dmitry Petrov
Born16 July 1958 (1958-07-16) (age 62)
Novomoskovsk, Russia, USSR
Alma materMoscow State Linguistic University
OccupationLanguage teacher, language teaching methodologist, course author, interpreter and translator
EmployerMoscow State Linguistic University, Dimitry Petrov's Innovative Communication Linguistics Center, Russia-K TV channel
Known forPolyglot-16 language teaching TV show; being multilingual

Biography

Dmitry Petrov got into Moscow State Linguistic University in 1975. According to some sources 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, except 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
  1. Ю. Фуколова. (3 March 2014). "Синьор полиглот". Коммерсант.ru. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  2. "Полиглот (все программы) / Телеканал "Россия – Культура"". tvkultura.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  3. "Cайт Дмитрия Ивановича Ермоловича - Дмитрий Петров". yermolovich.ru. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  4. "День открытых дверей на Переводческом факультете". linguanet.ru. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  5. "Методика Дмитрия Петрова | Центр Дмитрия Петрова". centerpetrova.ru. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  6. Виктория Юхова (27 January 2014). "Языковой запас". Журнал "Итоги". Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  7. "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.
  8. "Лауреаты премии ТЭФИ 2014!". 28 June 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  9. Ильясов, Дмитрий. "Почему система Дмитрия Петрова может не сработать?". londonnsk.ru. Retrieved 12 June 2020.

Literature
  • Петров Д. Ю., Борейко В. Н. (2010). Магия слова. Диалог о языке и языках. М.: ПрозаиК. p. 208. ISBN 978-5-91631-105-1.
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