professor of the department of general language knowledge, minsk state linguistic university zinaida kharitonchika andreevna, hello, it’s not often that an english teacher comes to visit me, in fact, you are the first, so i have a lot of questions, and the first of them is: is it possible to learn english at a fairly professional level at the age of 60? i think it is possible, but very difficult. it all depends on your motivation , on how you are going to learn a new language for you, and although some innate ability that children have, uh, 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 do not yet know how to ... not to read, i’ll be honest that i personally don’t see such a big point, i have experience teaching english in kindergarten, when i was a student, i worked part-time, and accordingly, i taught english for middle a