"A kid seller in India speaking languages like Italian, German, Arabic, Farsi, French, Japanese, and Russian etc." <embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/719178/poor_kid_speaking_many_languages_amazing.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br><font size = 1><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/719178/poor_kid_speaking_many_languages_amazing/">Poor Kid Speaking Many Languages - Amazing</a> - <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">Celebrity bloopers here</a></font> wow!
most likely not fluent in those languages..just fluent in what he needs to sell..but still kinda impressive ..cuz so young..and prolly has had no schooling
This is what I was thinking, too. He knows what he needs to sell and knows what to say to sell it. The guy should've just asked the kid "how do you say 'Where's the bathroom?' in German?". Some of the best cons in the world are the kids that work railway stations in India - no joke. lol.
Thats pretty badass. Even if he can only speak just enough to sell stuff. Although on another note, my parents both speak 6 languages. The Indian educational system absolutely owns America in terms of language education. Actually we're probably the worst in the world in terms of teaching other languages.
he's pretty fluent in english and it's likely that's not his native language, so that tells you something.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, cognitively. As you add on languages it absorbs some other linguistic structures and reduces primary language fluidity and creativity. There have been several studies to this effect.
