{"id":1260,"date":"2014-05-19T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T06:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2014-05-17T07:39:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:39:21","slug":"8-year-old-prodigy-speaks-32-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/8-year-old-prodigy-speaks-32-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Year Old Prodigy speaks 32 languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldnewsdailyreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/danish-460x307.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Skagen| Ankj\u00e6r N\u00f8rgaard, an 8-year old boy from northern Denmark, is certainly one of the world\u2019s most gifted kids when it comes to mastering different languages. Already fluent in more than 31 different tongues and dialects, the young prodigy has become youngest human being ever recorded to have learned 32, by adding the Mandarin (or Standard chinese) language to his pedigree last week, in only three days.<\/p>\n<p>The list of languages he has already learned is absolutely amazing, counting many idioms reputated as excessively complicated. It includes Afrikaaner, Arab, Bengali, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Mandarin, Maori, Polish, Portugese, Punjabi, Quechua, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish and Zulu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t really explain it, it comes to me really easily\u201d he candidly tells our reporter. \u201cArab took me two weeks, Swahili was more complicated, it took me seven\u2026 I guess I grasp things rapidly when it comes to languages. You know, there isn\u2019t as many differences between different tongues as people seem to think. Once you know a dozen, the others come quickly and easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The amazing young boy has recently been offered a scholarship from the K\u00f8benhavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen) to pursue a degree in linguistics, but his parents, who are both psychologists, are worried that sending him to university at such a young age could disturb his normal socialization process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know our son has a gift\u201d explains Frida M\u00f8ller, Ankj\u00e6r\u2019s mother, \u201cbut we want him to have a life that\u2019s as normal as possible. We don\u2019t want him to become some sort of circus freak, and we don\u2019t want some ruthless people to exploit him for their own selfish purposes. For now, we would like to keep him at home, where we feel he is safer, and where is gift can fully flourish. Maybe we\u2019ll change our mind in a few years, we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skagen| Ankj\u00e6r N\u00f8rgaard, an 8-year old boy from northern Denmark, is certainly one of the world\u2019s most gifted kids when it comes to mastering different languages. Already fluent in more than 31 different tongues and dialects, the young prodigy has become youngest human being ever recorded to have learned 32, by adding the Mandarin (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}