Vasily Virastyuk, the strongest person on the planet, was interviewed for a Polyglot freelance platform. "Stories with languages" (issue 4)
Talking about your startup "languages" of famous and popular people, you can also hear from them useful thoughts for the project.
On October 6, an online service blog for language professionals published an interview with Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine, holder of the title “The Strongest Man of the World” and multiple world champion in all-round power, who told a freelance platform about the role of foreign languages ​​in his life and his career as an athlete and the actor, about how he teaches his sons to sports and languages, as well as curious cases related to the language barrier. The interview was published as part of the Polyglot PR online campaign - a series of interviews with famous personalities called “ Stories with Languages ” , in which celebrities talk about the role foreign languages ​​play in their personal lives, how their knowledge of languages ​​helps them and simply share their , sometimes unusual, "stories with languages." According to the founder of the platform, Andrey Prudko , the goal of the campaign is to promote the study of foreign languages ​​and the service itself. This is the fourth interview, which takes the service of freelancers as part of its PR campaign. Earlier in the cycle, the Polyglot team spoke with American singer Stereolizza , Spanish electronic music singer Zhanna Ona and Russian actress Marina Dubkova . The video interview was conducted via Skype and was published along with the full text version of a blog on the platform site for freelance linguists. Thus, a PR campaign with famous people is paying off. ')
“In general, besides Russian and Ukrainian, I know a little English and Polish, I can understand what it is about.But, unfortunately, English was not given to me at school.Although you can talk about the fact that I simply did not pay enough attention to him, because I thought: why should I, a resident of Ivano-Frankivsk, need it at all.And when I started to go to competitions, I realized the opposite, and regretted that I did not teach him.A sufficient number of athletes were from the former Soviet Union - the Baltic countries, Russia, Ukraine - so we could all explain ourselves with the help of the Russian language and had no problems in communication , ”says world champion Vasily Virastiuk .
Vasiliy Yaroslavovich Virastiuk was born on April 22, 1974 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. At the age of 10, he started athletics, at 21 he became a master of sports, and at 24 he became a master of sports of international class. In 2004 he was awarded the title of the strongest man on the planet and set records recorded in the "Book of Records of Ukraine . " He has starred in four films since 2009.