Demidov's Internalization Method

I took up English at 7, so this year marks the 50-anniversary of my involvement with this language . I use this occasion to unveil my method for learning languages to the international community. In 1983, I graduated from the MIFI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), where I later got a PhD and taught as a docent. In 1991, I graduated from the MGLU (Moscow State Linguistic University) as a teacher of English, French, German and Latin. After that, I taught English and French at the MIFI part-time. Then I moved on to translation, which is what I still do (check out my Multitran page here ). I also continued my language studies and added Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Ancient Greek to my portfolio. However, despite my extensive linguistic knowledge, credentials (see my degree  and  transcript ,  reverse ) and experience, I was still bad at speaking English and other languages, not being able to get rid of my thick Russian accent and failing to articulate my thoughts flu

This is a blog about my Internalization Method for learning foreign languages as introduced on YouTube  here . This is a transcript of my YouTube video: Hi, my name is Alexander Demidov. I’m a certified teacher and translator, and here I’m offering you a taste of my method for learning foreign languages, which I call the Internalization Method ( метод интернализации in Russian). The Internalization Method is based on three ideas. One. Time. Learning a language takes time. There’s no getting around it. Babies are born with an innate ability to learn a language, but it still takes them a couple of years to start speaking properly. And it certainly takes time to learn a second language. There are no shortcuts to success. [Oh no!] You’ve got to put in the hours. [Yup.] But most people live busy lives and find it difficult to make time for this. So we must devise a way to fit it in. That’s one, time. Two. No translation. Most people try to speak a second language by translating wha