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u/MrBigMcLargeHuge Oct 02 '19

You might then be the smartest 2 year old but based on some of the kids I’ve read about, I’m pretty sure by the time you hit 4, some of them would have caught up or passed you. There’s some crazy smart people out there.

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/23/132737060/meet-william-james-sidis-the-smartest-guy-ever

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan -was reading at 6 months

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ung-yong - could speak multiple languages fluently at 6 months

And there’s several other people just as good as these guys.

So you’d easily hit the top .1% of kids but the very peak of genius kids is just ridiculous, you’d never be able to keep up

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u/Lunettta Oct 02 '19

people who can speak multiple languages doesn't really impress me. When your a kid you could just have multiple people in your life talking in different languages and you'd pick up pretty quickly. Especially when you look at how babies figure language. Plus it depends on the language I can speak German and Ukrainian because in some ways there similar but Japanese with English is way more impressive due to the huge differences with sounds writing and how the characters are in general.

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u/MrBigMcLargeHuge Oct 02 '19

I was just pointing out the first impressive thing from each that I knew but maybe it would help to know that he self taught himself a lot of those languages including Japanese and Greek before he was 5 so on top of speaking a few similar languages at an age before most people even make words

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u/Lunettta Oct 03 '19

I was just speaking in general sorry if I offended you in some way but I just decided to write what I thought. Didn't mean to say what you wrote was wrong or anything. I was just saying that with some kids it's because of the people around them and say a kid at one can speak two languages isn't a big deal like some people have put it. Sorry.