Isolation has recently become part of our lives—and that opens up opportunities for self-education. Although the ability to study on your own has always existed, now we have access to a wealth of technical and informational resources. But how can we effectively learn foreign languages, and which methods really work? In a lecture by the polyglot Dmitry Petrov, we’ll discuss how to learn languages independently and with pleasure. Dmitry Petrov is a well-known polyglot and psycholinguist who speaks 35 languages, as well as the author of a method for intensive foreign-language learning. He regularly runs courses in the lecture hall "Pryamaya Rech" (Direct Speech), and his method lets you start speaking a new language in the shortest possible time.