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