they need to extend these employment relationships until the person reaches retirement age. zenedi andreevna, if we were communicating in english, i would probably start our conversation with the phrase “how are you?” what would you answer? thanks. and what is this in russian? thank you. that is, everything is fine , only one thing is obvious, that my english needs to be improved, that’s what we’ll talk about, my guest has devoted her entire life to linguistics and her beloved university. 58 years

of experience and teaching experience, thousands of scientific papers and grateful students. today i have visiting doctor of philology, professor of the department of general linguistics at minsk state linguistic university zinaida kharitonshchik. zinaida andreevna, hello. english teachers don’t come to visit me very often, in fact, you are the first, and therefore i have a lot of questions, and the first of them is: is it possible... for 50 years to learn english at such a professional level? i think it is possible, but very difficult, it all depends on your motivation, on how you are going to learn new things language for you, and although this is some innate ability that children have, it remains.

but not to the same extent, but different people, different abilities, different diligence, different motivation, that is, there are too many different factors that, accordingly, influence the success, or even failure, of solving this problem, is there any point in english language courses for children who cannot yet write or read? i ’ll be honest that i personally don’t see that much sense; i have experience teaching english in kindergarten when i i was a student, i worked part-time and, accordingly, i taught english, for children of the middle and senior groups of kindergarten, on the one hand, children absolutely easily learn some words, some songs,

some poems and even some grammatical patterns, these are children of the middle and senior groups , and you are talking about children of an even younger age, i would even say that, but it’s quite possible, i’m wrong, that this is a dangerous undertaking, because the child begins to learn... his native language, and in order to learn his native language, he needs to do enormous, hard intellectual work to acquire what we call a native language, he needs to learn the declination, conjugation, and then he also needs to learn syntactic patterns of construction.

and this is a huge intellectual work, imagine that you entrust the child with another task , to learn another language in the same way, and then there are medical issues, added, whether the child’s psyche can withstand it, so i remember my childhood, and learning english language began in the fifth grade. probably when now the child has already grown up and is ready to perceive the whole complex of necessary knowledge that will be taught only at this age. well, ushinsky once emphasized that learning a foreign language can only begin when the native language has been adequately mastered, that is, no earlier than 7 years, at least, well, here it’s very... often

parents are in a very, very hurry , although there is an undoubted benefit of learning a foreign language for development, for intellectual development. my generation remembers well the rather intrusive advertising of ilona’s express courses davidova, what do you think, is it possible to quickly learn the same english language, or is this a publicity stunt? there are so-called intensive language training courses, they require certain methods, they require a certain frequency of classes. if you agree to devote, say, several hours a day, every day of the week, to learning a foreign language, your success is to some extent, to some extent, guaranteed,

again, you have experience of such learning, but the first thing you need to understand is what is knowledge of a language, what do you... in the concept of knowledge of a language, because it is quite possible to know several formulas for everyday communication, and this is called knowing the language, or even just knowing the greeting, and this is also knowing the language, but another thing is knowing the language for more serious purposes, then these are the skills that are, as it were, primary and sufficient. for certain purposes they turn out to be insufficient for deeper, more serious purposes, that is, i understand that the issue of mastering the english language , let’s say, it cannot be common to all people who want to master the english

language, everything is valid, as you said, depends on the goal that a person sets for himself, well, let’s say, if you just learn a spoken language, that’s how many days a week is needed so that in a year, well, you can start speaking so that you are understood, and how intensively you will study it, i have his own experience of teaching english to a person, a candidate of sciences, biological sciences , who was supposed to go to america in 3-4 months, in 2 months he set the task of learning english, but he studied every day for eight... he coped with it, he passed the necessary exam, well, in order to master english, it is necessary to communicate with a native speaker, not at all, moreover, i ask students quite often, do you think

it is much better to study the language in the country of the language being studied, or, say, in minsk, they , everyone in the country understands the essence of the question, they answer, i say: well then, repeat that intellectual work of the child, communication with a native speaker gives you the opportunity to train, master the skills that you learned earlier with a teacher who is most often not a native speaker, a native speaker, moreover, very often is not a teacher, not a methodologist and does not understand either the structure of the language, or the role of certain phenomena in the language system, and does not understand at all how to teach this, and whether you have

any, exactly your recipe, thanks to which you can quite successfully master the english language? that there is generally a single recipe for everyone, it’s work. how much time do you need to spend to learn to think in english, we most often translate from russian into english, no, the thought is born in english, the thought, how as soon as you switch to the system of a particular language, your thought receives form in the units of this language, from one language system to another. we do not tell dry historical facts: we introduce the era.

the geta is so outstanding that on the next month you can swim for an hour. there was spachatku garadzishcha, then zamak, and then zeinichaya tsarkva. symon budny. i was able to give out here the prime minister and his galoin pratz of the bible. artifacts of ancient history. a real puzzle for us as time travelers. coat of arms of the narkevich family yotka and meaning, since all the ancestors of this city were born in the warrior family, the task of our guides is to ignite your desire to touch belarusian culture personally. geta ўvogule is the soul of the belarusian people. we walk along the bridge, through the former ones. the ancestral nobles of the noble families settled in

these passages, and some of these tombs took the form of a pyramid. consolate with the television channel belarus 24. we have introduced such an indicator as to what the effect of the budget ruble is, if we take innovation activity, then for the first half of the twenty-third year per ruble. investment products were sold for approximately 24 rubles, of which approximately 22 were high-tech science-intensive products. we do everything for the patient free of charge, absolutely, all stages of treatment are paid for by the state , it makes no difference to us whether the operation costs 100 rubles, or does it cost 100,000 dollars? europe as a periphery can use the intellectual, economic, financial, and technological resources of europe to strengthen the united states. with china, and the efficiency of the government is, well, the highest,

because even under the imposed sanctions, then nothing happened to us, we will grow this year, markov’s project is nothing personal , watch on the belarus tv channel 244 adventures of foreigners in belarus, what ’s going on here, the village, so to speak, is a tourist village, the residents here are not permanent, but everything is there, right? hello, we are trying to restore all our houses using ancient technologies that were used in those days. a guy from ecuador travels through all our villages. i want to live in the village, i will build my city there, a tourist city, i will live there, here you go, please, bon appetit, this is only for one, this is only for one, you know that in my country i have only seen this on a candy or on a zhibushka, but i have not tried it in real life. i’ll move on, i need something, travel around belarus, around belarus , he talks with pleasure about the most colorful

places in the country, i would stay here, of course, good work and food, i’m glad when i listen to belarusian music, i have no words when i feel then it just burns inside, look at the travel project white dew, on tv channel belarus 24. zineida anndreevna, what if there is a genetic predisposition to learning languages? i think that there is some predisposition to master certain skills, let’s say, probably, probably, but i can’t be sure here, there are certain inclinations of mathematical thinking,

some philological inclinations, they are associated with certain abilities, far from everyone becomes a writer, which means, and accordingly, to master the language, we see that there are people who are humanitarians, and there are... rather natural scientists, by the way, it’s no secret that there is a certain number of people who simultaneously speak several languages, polyglots, which means there is a predisposition, there is still, well, polyglots seem to me, this is rather not so much a predisposition to learning languages, although probably in this also has, this also takes place, and polyglots - who either set as their goal, due to a certain need

to learn several languages, or very often find themselves in situations where they need learn one or another language. and i heard that people with an ear for music learn a foreign language faster and easier. they learn, i can say this from personal experience, i am musically deprived. hearing and for me in the first year it was a very very difficult task to master the fanatical system of the english language, the phonological system , i saw how my... students learned it much easier, i had to put more work into it, that is, this melody of the language, of course, and the intonation is easier, and the sounds themselves, not to mention all sorts of articulatory changes, if i am this, i rather read

the theory and rationally solve these issues, this is the biggest phobia for... this is the fear of making a mistake, what would you advise to overcome this barrier? just don’t be afraid to speak, this very often arises as a result of the constant correction of mistakes made by a speaker, a beginner, a speaker of a language, a teacher, because teachers, realizing this more and more often, from the immediate correction of an error, then taking these errors into account in specially prepared exercises, that is the teacher must work on this, but he will not create this, that fear , to make a mistake, which is often observed,

but a certain fear of speaking incorrectly, not speaking as needed, not as normative, not as a native speaker, it is overcome as soon as you enter into communication, you can somehow treat this as a game, you can, all life is a game, as it is sung, but we don’t always speak our native language correctly, and we make a lot of mistakes, despite even, i emphasize, even on philologists. over the years of teaching, hundreds of applicants have passed through you and hence the question: is it possible to learn english without tutors in a regular high school and then enter a linguistic university? i think it is possible, and moreover, a tutor appears

when a person does not work hard at school, or he himself the strength of the teacher’s not entirely adequate competence, but i can immediately say honestly that i cannot really cover this issue, because i have not been associated with heating exams for a long time, well then i have one more question, this is where this stereotype came from, that this is school english, but it does not make any sense and you simply cannot do without a tutor, but i can ask a question, there is no such thing, no such illusion, because exactly the same thing is then required in social consciousness tutor in mathematics, biology, physics, and resort to their crawling, this speaks of our distrust of school , and what is better, online or direct

communication with the teacher, direct communication is definitely an advantage of live contact, which presupposes a channel not yet just messages, but the emotional channel, the channel, i would say, is energy , i’m currently reading online lectures in moscow, it’s worse, i’ve never had a harder task in my life, what do you advise parents if their child? well, doesn’t like english or some other foreign language? changing teachers a foreign language is not just a tool for communication with some other communities, a foreign language is the development of creative potential, which is associated with a completely different view of the world around us,

and accordingly, this is a new vision, a new... thinking, one might say, and new thinking is interesting, intriguing, i’ll give you the following question that i like to ask students, i ask them in english, how many fingers do you have? ask in english? you're great, many students say 20, 20 and then i instantly. but you can’t show it in russian, but we have 20 fingers, in english. in fact, to be very precise, we have eight fingers, two thumbs and 10 toys, here you

go, this is already somewhat different, well, yes, a vision, zina andreevna, where did yours begin passion, the english language, i can’t even tell you exactly, because at school i was interested in physics and prepared accordingly. institute then, but since for me technical drawing was not the most pleasant activity for me, and i somehow abandoned radio engineering and rather accidentally chose inyas, but it was english, although i studied german at school, and then never for a second. .. when did you realize that you wanted to connect your life with linguistics? this came even after graduation, when i began working as a teacher,

i worked for 3 years as a teacher in the department of lexicology and stylistics of the english language, and accordingly, i had already somewhat mastered the program that i was supposed to teach. and i became interested, at that time we had different courses, different lectures from different professors, and this interested me, and accordingly i decided to enroll in graduate school, and at the same time i had, had the opportunity to enroll in graduate school in the specialty of psychology and although psychology would be one of the most interesting disciplines, so i said that i wouldn’t give up english i can, but i can’t from linguistics, and accordingly i entered the

mariasarez moscow state pedagogical institute for graduate school in the department of lexicology and stylistics, in my native department, and what was the most difficult thing in studying? i would say not so much in training, although i remember the work as... which were very difficult for me even after the so-called doctoral studies. there are works that, due to the fact that you have not specialized in this area, are very, very difficult for you to understand. tsar, boyar, veche, this has been traditional for centuries

for us, the form of government is the base, and to it we can and should add a superstructure from what are called democratic institutions, these are elections of a leader, that is, the president, and parliamentary elections, and a national referendum, for me it is important that you they appreciated not the form about the tsar, but the essence of what i am saying, how... when we, by strengthening the supreme national assembly, return the historical veche to the control system, it does not contradict a strong leader, but complements the system. what is the difference between a politician and a statesman? the politician thinks about future elections, and the statesman thinks about future generations. we can do something to help the world find peace only if we ourselves have order at home, because if we suddenly have a mess, then we will have neither time nor energy left for the world’s problems. the propaganda project , look at... today we see how unnatural

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in minsk there is a state linguistic university, then an institute of foreign languages, you came when you were 16 years old, what was your institute like then? the institute was, if we talk about the physical side, one building, now known as building b, we had one english classroom with several tape recorders, which we, where there were recordings that we could, so we had to sit in this office, of course, such technical means conducive to the study of foreign language, as it is now, you couldn’t even dream of it , what achievements of your students are you proud of?

well, first of all, i am very very... and proud of those students who continued their studies in graduate school or even doctoral studies, wrote research papers, dissertations, i am proud of those of my students who began to give lectures and, moreover, became scientific supervisors themselves, each teacher chooses his own approach to each student, what is unique about yours? then respect for the student, i think, is the starting position, with which communication with a student begins, the student will not forgive either contempt, or condescension, or any other attitude other than respect, another thing is that in the process of communication he can lose my respect, being lazy, unscrupulous, and so on and so forth, with which

... it’s more pleasant for you to work with students, with smart ones, of course, with smart ones, but you can also train people who, say, are qualified, i emphasize the word qualified, in many ways, this does not mean that they really are not smart, not capable, and so on further, but very often we see them, we describe them as, but if the teacher really masters his subject, understands it deeply, he is able to convey it simply and clearly, and if there is this clarity in the presentation of the material, then this determines the ease of his understanding, and well , with what more difficult? with the nulliparous?

with the nulliparous, there is a student who does not care when a person makes a mistake and continues to insist on it, this is an unhappy person, and his nulliparity is rather a consequence, of course, language is a living organism, it is constantly changing, how do you maintain your professional level, i maintain my professional level by constantly reading, constantly participating in conferences where you have the opportunity to hear very, very original concepts, hear original ideas, in general, attending a conference, as i understand it, for me, is 2-3 months of work in the library, that is, there a huge number of people are gathered together in

one space, in one time, you have the opportunity to get acquainted with their ideas, the teacher, he, he is like an artist, he is always in sight, this requires some large physical, and some equal , moral costs, as you relax, in the forest, at the dacha, digging, if possible, in the beds with pleasure, walks in the forest near the lake and so on and so on and so on, but before this year, of course, there was a change somewhere in the environment, i’m not an urbanist at all, so as a rule i try to leave the city, but i can’t imagine being inactive.