Shrug like a Frenchman and frown like a Russian July 07, 2013 at 01:51PM

This kid is really quite a boast. While the Youtube video claims that he can speak 20 languages, in reality he is just comfortable with 4 to 5 languages and he is still learning the others. A lot of Malaysians (perhaps, the Europeans too) can speak comfortably in at least 3 to 4 languages. What is he singled out as a "prodigy"?

via Facebook http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/07/teenage-hyperpolyglot-0?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fbl%2Fshruglikeafrenchman TIMOTHY DONER looks like an ordinary American teenager. Medium-height and slight, he arrives in a grey T-shirt and jeans. As he is being miked for his interview, our...