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8-year-old speaks 11 languages

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Astrophel
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25 February 2013 at 10:41am | IP Logged 
Wendy Vo YouTube

"Wendy Vo is an 8 year-​old Viet­namese-​Amer­i­can child prodi­gy of mu­sic and lan­guage. She
speaks 11 lan­guages. They are Viet­namese, En­glish, Span­ish, Man­darin Chi­nese, French,
Japanese, Hin­di, Ara­bic, Rus­sian, Can­tonese and Por­tuguese."

What do you guys think? She seems to understand everything well and respond, but a lot
of it has weird intonation, like it was badly memorized...though that could easily just
be tonal languages interfering with her intonation or something. But she DID get on
Oprah (watch the first video) which makes me think this is legit. I'm on the fence.

Still, even if she did just memorize scripts, she's clearly got understanding and basic
phrases under her belt in 11 languages which is EXTREMELY impressive for an 8-year-old!
:)

Edited by Astrophel on 25 February 2013 at 10:45am

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Noorina
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25 February 2013 at 11:00am | IP Logged 
I think she is cute :-)
And she is very good at speaking Arabic.
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25 February 2013 at 2:06pm | IP Logged 
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