Abstract

The article presents a model of teaching four foreign languages. The
 languages obligatory for learning are English and German. The student
 then chooses the languages of distant cultures, for example, Chinese
 and Czech, Japanese and Polish, Turkish and Serbian, etc. The teaching
 materials are course books from Germany while methods of teaching foreign
 languages are Russian and take into account personal characteristics and
 abilities of the students. Original German material is borrowed from other
 sources including the Internet. In the first two years, classes are given by
 two highly skilled teachers who aim to show the common features of English
 and German as the languages belonging to the same Germanic group. In
 the next two years students analyze the differences of distant cultures,
 with reference to the languages they choose for learning, as language
 constitutes part of culture. The suggested model has a universal character
 and can be used in any type of educational institutions. After finishing the
 course, graduates have skills to teach the respective languages as well as
 to translate and interpret from and into them.

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