N Zamyatkin it is impossible to teach you a foreign language. You cannot be taught a foreign language. Zamyatkin N.F.
You cannot be taught a foreign language. Zamyatkin N.F.
Second edition - diligently corrected and greatly enlarged.
Summary treatise An honest to the last comma book that immediately became a classic of the genre and a must-read for anyone who is at least to some extent interested in languages.A paradoxical book that inexorably destroys myth after myth, fiction after fiction, error after error. A book that frees you from the fetters of widespread old delusions that prevent you from mastering a foreign language. Anyone who studies or intends to study a foreign language is simply obliged to read this book, which has no analogues either in the accessibility of the author's language (this is not a standard “manual” with its deadly language!), or in the quantity and quality of useful advice.
The brilliant style and laid-back humor of presentation make this book interesting for those who have already “learned” a foreign language at school or university and as a result have finally believed in their “inability” for languages - it will become clear to them why, after all these painful for long years never mastered - and could not master! - language, remaining within the generally accepted format of "learning".
Those who speak foreign languages will be happy to be convinced of the correctness of their approaches, which allowed them to escape from the dull and dull chamber full of cases, conjugations and gerunds that frighten any normal person.
Thus, this book is written for everyone and for everyone - everyone will find something interesting in it! Including the organizers of language "scams", rollicking sellers of "secret signals" and other brisk writers of "successful" books, shamelessly promising to teach you the language in three minutes a day: they must know the arguments of the author - their enemy No. 1!
The author lived in the USA for many years, where he worked as a translator, taught and did other - but no less interesting - things. Knows several languages. He developed his own method of learning foreign languages, which is also described in this book.
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And it is written that another 4000 characters are possible?
"plastic card" automatically resets me to the "catalog". Do you have anything in the basket, no calculation?
By the way, about purchasing a book in printed form, you need to have an address and, of course, money for shipping. It is hardly possible to agree with the Russian Post to send something to Ukraine. And especially lately. By the way, rubles are still circulating in Ukraine, I have a ruble account in Privatbank. I'll try it electronically.
Grade 1 out of 5 stars from Andrushchak Anatoly Mikhailovich 08.09.2016 00:31
Dear Nikolai Fedorovich!
Of course, the whole horror is that I cannot order the matrices of the English and German languages.
What does it matter to me that everyone praises the book deservedly ... After a stroke in 2004, I did not speak for 2.5 years. Before the stroke, he knew both - German from the 5th grade perfectly (after the institute he did not pass the exam for a candidate's minimum, he could read scientific papers, write too - albeit with stylistic errors), English - became an employee of a joint venture in the North Tyumen region with a part of 49% of the shares of British and American - could participate in the discussion of geological and drilling issues. I knew the Polish language from childhood - my grandmother was Polish ... And now, after a stroke, I forgot three languages - I only speak Ukrainian and Russian .. And these are gone .. So believe that you will take everything you have learned to the grave, it turns out that it is possible like that with a language but without a tongue. Of course, my right-sided paresis did not go away, but I threw the stick in 2006, I assess the situation - if not directly, then I will have to bypass hobbling - paresis of the foot and lower leg. My arm is paresis of the entire arm, starting from the shoulder. I learned how to type on a computer with my left hand, how to shave, how to tie my shoelaces, and so on.
And now I can’t order matrices to update my knowledge. As soon as I approach the calculation, after "
Grade 1 out of 5 stars from Andrushchak Anatoly Mikhailovich 07.09.2016 23:58
WONDERFUL!!!
Grade 5 out of 5 stars from Snow_fairy_tale 30.08.2015 21:19
Someone will complain that there is a lot of water in the book. Guys, don't look at this, look at the technique. She is cool. It's absurd for me now - to learn a language in isolation from pronunciation ... it's like not learning anything at all.
Grade 5 out of 5 stars from Annie 18.12.2013 07:16
The book is written in a very lively language and offers a method that is radically different from the already known methods of learning languages.
In my personal opinion, this method should work, only ready-made matrices would be found ..
But in any case, the author is well done - write more!
Grade 5 out of 5 stars from Konstantin 01.03.2012 03:02
An excellent book, in fact, from the first minutes it captured me with a story that in the depths of my soul I always knew somehow intuitively - not a single course will teach you a foreign language. One condition is necessary - an unbending desire, your desire, to learn the language.
The manner of narration is built in a fascinating, lively and cheerful dialogue - you will definitely not be bored when reading.
And finally, regarding the Zamyatkin method with the inverse resonance matrix: it is written in an interesting and well-reasoned way. Does it work - I will try :) as the author himself said - do not take everything at face value, but check for yourself.
1 ... All over the earth there was one language and one dialect. 2 Moving out from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, Let us make bricks and burn them with fire. And they became bricks instead of stones, and earthen tar instead of lime. 4 And they said, Let us build ourselves a city and a tower as high as the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, before we are scattered over the face of all the earth. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, there is one people, and they all have one language; and this is what they began to do, and they will not lag behind what they have planned to do; 7 Let us go down and confuse their language there, so that one does not understand the speech of the other. 8 And the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth; and they stopped building the city. (Deut. 32, 8.) 9 Therefore the name was given to her: Babylon, for there the Lord confounded the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them over all the earth ...
(The Book of Genesis)
“... And you don’t talk to me with words - you need to talk not with words! And don't be afraid that I won't understand you! Let your soul speak with my soul - and they will understand each other! And you don’t have to worry too much about words…”
(From conversation)
Teach yourself!
You, my future interlocutor, but already dear to my heart, were, of course, attracted by the title of this book. Could not help but attract!
Among the heaps of colorful courses, textbooks, books, little books and little books that promise to teach you all the languages of the world in a couple of months, or even weeks in a pleasant and not at all burdensome environment, this title was undoubtedly an unpleasant surprise for you. I am quite happy about this. Here, on these pages, you will find many such surprises. But do not rush to despair and in a rage trample this treatise with your feet like some kind of poisonous and dangerous insect for you. You don't need to do this for one simple reason:
although the statement that you cannot be taught a foreign language is an undeniable and undeniable truth - like the statement that tomorrow morning will be sunrise - you can very well learn a foreign language! That is, you can TEACH YOURSELF!
The difference between these two concepts is fundamental. No one, ever, under any circumstances can teach you, but teach yourself - and competent outside help is by no means excluded - You can .
Awareness of this generally old as the world, but still a cornerstone truth is the key to successfully mastering a foreign language - or a dozen foreign languages, if you want.
Let's return once again to the multi-colored deposits of various courses and manuals for learning foreign languages with loud - and sometimes even falsetto - promises of "unearthly bliss" coupled with minimal effort on your part in the process of using these same manuals. "Buy us! We are shiny and attractive! We have beautiful colorful pictures! We have secret signals in us, thanks to which you will become a super polymegaglot in a couple of months!” What do all these books and manuals have in common? A certain amount of blatant shamelessness and dishonesty towards you and me, my dear interlocutor! In their appearance and manners, they resemble girls of a certain behavior, obsessively offering you their “true and incomparable love” for sale. Moreover, the girls are of a very low poshiba!
Regrettable as it may be, this is the way it is: I have not seen no one course of a foreign language (including, by the way, very good ones), where absolutely honestly, without omissions and verbal fog, it was explained what, in fact, is the study of a foreign language. You and I, my dear interlocutor, are either not given any explanation at all, or are vaguely and confusedly invited to follow some vague instructions leading to many years of and ineffective wandering in the impenetrable jungle of a foreign language. I'm not even talking about ridiculous "textbooks" that try to teach you the language in a couple of minutes a day. Here the swindle already crosses all conceivable and inconceivable limits, limits and decency!
People! Humans! Brothers and sisters in mind! I turn to you, my friends! It is impossible to learn a foreign language by studying for three minutes a day, just as it is impossible to swim across a stormy ocean in an empty tin can! Believe me - a person who graduated from the faculty of foreign languages, studied languages on his own, worked for many years as an interpreter, who taught languages to the American Green Berets, military intelligence, the National Guard, the CIA and the NSA (an office more secret than the CIA, that's why you never heard of her), who worked for several years at the US Department of Defense Institute of Foreign Languages in Monterey - one of the largest and most prestigious educational institutions similar kind in the world.
Believe me - a specialist in the field of learning foreign languages:
miracles in this area are extremely rare - although in principle they are possible - and they will not happen to you specifically! Don't rely on it. You are waiting for a hard and long work. However, you will receive a reward according to your labors - not the consciousness of your own humiliating impotence and the bitter taste of failure, but the sweetness of a well-deserved victory! For truly sweet is only what we receive after overcoming obstacles, after our difficulties and labors, and not at all what falls into our hands without effort on our part..
Thus, we "download" into our brains a plug-in for recognizing foreign speech; 2. Then we read the same materials to shit, thereby developing a pronunciation for ourselves; 3.??? 4. PROFIT!Well, in principle, the method could be tested, but I suspect that not everything is as smooth as the author writes. I agree that at first it would be nice to train your ears, "accustoming" them to someone else's speech, but listen to the same minute dialogues for weeks for 3 hours a day?! Nikolai Batkovich, are you serious? And this is after your complaints about the language teaching system, which ruined so many talents? Yes, any normal person, and even more so a teenager, a schoolboy, will hate foreign languages in a few days, and will smash his MP3 to hell. But this is only the beginning, you will continue to read them. days. Weeks. And if I can still somehow understand and accept the first stage, then further darkness is generally. How does a person who is armed with only a few audio files understand that it "sounds" correctly? Not all people have an ear for music, not everyone is able to critically evaluate themselves. How to understand that this is it, the inverse resonance matrix has been worked out in full? Moreover, the correct pronunciation is the correct facial expression, but how to recognize it if you only have these few voiced dialogues?
Well, the technique is a little embarrassing, but it has the right to life. But the book itself... It is absolutely impossible to read! These constant flirtations with the reader, this verbal acrobatics, these often completely uninteresting stories were simply infuriating! I don’t know if this was an editorial task - to increase the volume of the text, or Mr. Zamyatkin just wanted to show all of us that over the years of his life in the USA, his Russian language has not slipped to the level of Aunt Sonya from Brighton Beach. For example:
In the desperate hope that my debilitating hearing aid will no longer be subjected to further "officer" torture, at least in my own country, I will even resort to the most extreme measure and reveal one extremely secret secret, about which you, gentlemen of the television translators, until now, obviously, they have never heard of it: there are such special books in which words of one language are printed on one side of the page, and a translation is placed opposite or possible options translation of these words into another language. Such books are called "dictionaries". They are already on sale. Buy yourself - instead of another timid one - such a book and look into it from time to time - you, my dear colleagues, it will be useful. The word "officer" is also there. M-yes...
And such witty notes in every paragraph. Thank you, how interesting!
Another thing that caught my eye was just an unhealthy reaction to language teachers. It feels like the author has a psychological trauma, stretching from childhood from the lesson in English. If I were a foreign language teacher, I would probably lay hands on myself after reading it, realizing the level of my insignificance. From the nonsense that he pours on the reader, sometimes it was just uncomfortable.
Many people who have successfully overcome a vicious, dead-end system in the field of learning foreign languages and, as a result, have excellent knowledge of a foreign language (or several foreign languages), nevertheless experience some residual feeling of guilt for their success. False ideas about the “proper” approach to learning foreign languages are so deeply rooted in us that we feel that our success is somehow “wrong”, “fraud”, that the path we intuitively took only accidentally led us to success. . In some paradoxical way, we consider ourselves to have violated some sacred rituals and rituals.
We, who speak foreign languages, prefer to blame ourselves unfairly (despite our obvious success), but cowardly refrain from blaming the entire vast system and all its representatives. For us it would be too hard. We prefer not to oppose the system. After all, you and I have been taught for so long that we must be good boys, wash your hands before eating, sit quietly and not make noise, obey your elders and not violate the order established from time immemorial, they taught that the majority is always right, that one’s small private interests should be subordinated to the interests of this majority. We blame ourselves and therefore we are so willing to believe in the accident of our success in learning a foreign language - we want to convince ourselves of this. Convince ourselves that we have mastered the language not at all contrary to the system - by challenging it. Convince ourselves that, as instructed, we "sat quietly", did our homework diligently, remained "good boys", were the first to raise our hands to answer the questions of wise teachers, and there is nothing to scold us for.
Of course, I agree that they teach languages in schools and universities often not so hot, but aren’t there similar problems with other subjects? And what do you offer in return, dear author? Give schoolchildren an MP3-file, and then meet in six months, when they will work on your matrix? Oh yes, each person has his own learning rate, someone needs 3 months, someone needs a year ... A hitch.
If you want to know about his method, it’s better to look for an article on the net where diligent copywriters digested everything and fit on one page of text, because stuffing yourself with this verbiage that hides such a dubious approach to learning ... well, feel sorry for yourself. M-yes (s).