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Human potential
http://www.wernerpatels.com/ canuck_columnist/ 2007/ 11/ human-potential.html
At a time when we are bombarded with terrible news about war, terrorism, recession, etc., it never hurts to read something positive for a change: A boy genius of 10 has stunned teachers by learning to speak 10 languages. Arpan Sharma taught himself French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swahili, Mandarin, Polish, Thai and the difficult Lugandan language of Uganda. He also learned Hindi from his mum and dad. The gifted primary school pupil from Oldbury, West Mids, studied using CD-roms. He learned Italian fluently at seven, German at eight, and Spanish when he was nine.
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