Another language is a different vision of life. Come on, you are talented! is a film about an innovative method of learning a foreign language in just 24 sessions, filmed in 1978.
The author of the training system is Galina Alexandrovna Kitaygorodskaya. The method of Kitaigorodskaya ("Method of activating the capabilities of the individual and the team) traces its history back to the 1970s from the ideas of suggestology and susgosthopedics of the famous Bulgarian psychotherapist Georgy Lozanov. The essence of these ideas is to use the hidden psychic reserves of the individual in training. The main characteristics of this approach are the activation of memory, the creation of a positive emotional mood, the removal of fatigue, the optimization of social adaptation.
It is a language learning system as a means of intercultural communication. Communication is not only “talking”, but above all understanding the speech of the interlocutor. In fact, the method is based on a simple, at first glance, principle: we first begin to speak our native language, constantly expanding our vocabulary, and only then we learn the grammatical rules on which the language system is based. And just like that: from use in speech to analysis, i.e. reproducing the natural model of language mastering, and training is based on the Kitaygorod method.
At that time, people did not believe that you could speak a new foreign language in such a short time. But its system still exists today and has become a classic of intensive education.
The film shows the dynamics of two groups, which in the frame began to learn French and Russian from scratch. G. A. Kitaigorodskaya was a fan of his business. She did not interfere with the camera, but makeup on this occasion and pose she was not going: “No takes.” I came to teach people the language.
Every lesson here is like a live script. Teaching in the form of a game. Lack of words to fill with gestures and facial expressions. For adults, this is a rather provocative form of learning. The scenario of life, which managed to catch Sobolev, was much more colorful than conceived and approved on paper.