About the book: 2010 / How many languages ​​can a person know? At least as many people as you know. If you are observant and flexible in your perception, you will be able to understand the language of everyone you meet and become intelligible to them without abandoning your own language. This is the opinion of one of the authors of this book, philologist, translator, creator of a unique psycholinguistic methodology for accelerated teaching of foreign languages, Dmitry Petrov. His co-author Vadim Boreyko, a journalist and deputy editor of the Kazakhstan newspaper Vremya, recorded their numerous conversations about language and its influence on the life of every person. Boreyko was convinced from personal experience how Petrov’s technique works, and together they described it in this book.