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Professor Maximilian Berlitz (1852-1921) immigrated to the US from Germany, where he was born and lived, in 1869. The amount of money he had with him was quite nebolshoy.K that time he was already an experienced teacher of a foreign language. In the US, it is just going to find a job as a teacher of several languages that vladel.V 1878 Berlitz opened in Providence, Rhode Island, his first small school of foreign languages. Training was carried out as standard, based on a "grammar + transfer" - the only one that Berlitz znal.I here once, as the "official history", he posted an advertisement for admission to the teacher of the French language and the work received a number of letters from the applicants. Selecting a young man named Nicolas Joly, a letter which was written just great, he was very disappointed when in person learned that he did not speak in English. But it so happened that it was then ill from Berlitz processing capabilities to look for another replacement was gone.