Incredible! This 4year old girl speaks 7 different languages of the world
This little girl is who is called Bella Devyatkina, is just 4 years old.
At
a first look, you will see Bella as any other typical carefree,
playful four-year-old, but ask her a question in Russian, English,
French, Spanish, German, Chinese or Arabic, and then you will be blown
away.
According to Oddity Central, Bella made
headlines in Russia a few days ago, when she appeared on a TV talent
show, where she spoke seven different languages without a prominent
accent, stunning both the judges and millions of viewers. Since then, a
YouTube video of her performance went viral online, transforming the
four-year-old polyglot into on overnight internet celebrity.Bella has
since been invited to appear on a variety of television programs where
moderators and other guests conversed with her in several of the seven
languages she is fluent in, She perfectly understood them and gave them
replies.
So how does a four-year-old girl learn so
many languages in such a short period of time, when most people spend
years struggling to become fluent in just one foreign language.
Bella’s
mother, Yulia, said that she and her father started teaching her
English when she was just two years old, and after noticing her interest
in the language and the ease with which she picked up everything, they
decided to gradually adding more languages to her schedule. They hired
native teachers for each new language, and when was three and a half
years old, she was already speaking two languages. She mastered another,
in the next six months.
Bella Devyatkina’s
language skills were put to the test on the Russian television talent
show ‘Incredible People’, where she had to answer questions in English,
French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Arabic. She passed the test with
flying colors, proving that she either can really understand all these
foreign languages, or she has the best memory of any four-year-old,
allowing her to memorize all the answers which is practically
impossible.
Yulia Devyatkina claims that Bella now spends about six hours
every day studying foreign languages, from 10 in the morning to 1 p.m.
and again from 5 p.m. to 8 in the evening. Upon hearing this, many
people have accused her parents of stripping her of her childhood, but
they insist that the classes are well structured as fun games that she
genuinely loves it. As far as Bella is concerned, she is playing, not
studying.
But while most of the world has been
shocked by the young girls ability to speak six foreign languages,
Russian neuropsychologist Anna Semenovich reminds us that in 19th
century Russia, speaking several foreign languages was common for
children of royal families.
Watch a video showing the girl by clicking the link below:
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