Dmitriy Petrov

Dmitry Yuryevich Petrov (; born 16 July 1958 in Novomoskovsk, Tula Region) is a Russian polyglot, simultaneous interpreter, lecturer, broadcaster, and teacher. He is a host of the reality show Polyglot on the TV channel Russia-K. Finished Translation School of Moscow State Linguistics University where he teaches, as of 2016, at the Department of Translation Studies and English Translation Practice. Since 2012 has his multilingual language school called Dmitry Petrov's Innovative Communication Linguistics Center that works using his 16 academic hour method Polyglot 16, implemented in eponymous course books and mobile applications.

Biography Dmitry Petrov got into Moscow State Linguistic University in 1975. According to some sources Dmitry Petrov worked with Soviet and Russian presidents. He was an interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin.

He says he can read in 50 languages and speak in 30, but in general, he works with 8 languages besides Russian: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, Greek, Hindi. His language school website says he mastered over 30 languages. on the national intellectual non-profit TV channel Rossiya-K (Russia-K, with K standing in Russian for Kultura "Culture"), teaching As of summer 2020, according to his language teaching center and the TV channel's websites, there have been 8 seasons of his show: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Hindi/Urdu, Portuguese, Chinese.