Dmitriy Petrov
Russian translator, interpreter and television presenter · Russia · On the map · Actors · Born 1958 · age 68
A Russian simultaneous interpreter who turned language learning into prime-time television - his show Polyglot promises fluency in 16 academic hours, a claim that made him a household face on state TV and launched a franchise of courses and apps.
Dmitriy Petrov is read about 62 times a day, in 26 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 13 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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Born in Novomoskovsk in 1958, Petrov trained at Moscow State Linguistics University's Translation School and built a career shuttling between languages in real time. By 2012 he had codified his accelerated method into a teaching system - Polyglot 16 - and opened his own center in Moscow. That same year Russia-K gave him a reality show under the same name, putting his technique on national screens and turning a working interpreter into a broadcaster. He still teaches at his alma mater's Department of Translation Studies, splitting time between the lectern, the studio, and a growing library of coursebooks and mobile apps that carry the 16-hour promise to anyone with a screen.
