I learned Chinese and mastered the basics of 6 more languages: a 4-year-old boy amazed the world with his intellect - ForumDaily
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Learned Chinese and mastered the basics of 6 more languages: 4-year-old boy amazed the world with his intellect

The baby, at just three years and nine months old, became the youngest member of MENSA in the UK. He is fluent in reading and counting in seven languages. Independent.

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MENSA is an international elite organization for high IQs founded in 1947. It only accepts participants with an IQ above the 98th percentile worldwide.

A child prodigy from Portishead, Somerset, Theodore "Teddy" Hobbs, taught himself to read at the age of two years and four months. He can already count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Chinese, Welsh, French, Spanish and German.

Teddy, now four, taught himself to read at the age of two years and four months, and is now able to even read the Harry Potter books when his parents let him. He even likes to relax while learning new words.

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Little Teddy was accepted into Mensa late last year after taking an IQ test with the group. He scored 139 out of 160 on the Stanford Binet test, shocking his parents, who had no idea how smart he was.

Beth Hobbs, 31, and her husband Will, 41, say they never expected Theodore, who prefers to be called "Teddy", to be in the group and never planned to apply for membership.

Beth said: "We were told that three years was the youngest age of anyone they accepted into MENSA in the UK, although there was someone as young as two in the US."

“To be honest, the fact that he ended up in this organization was a complete accident. We never aimed for that. And even this testing was so that we could help him when he started school in September - we never planned to get into MENSA. “We told my son he would sit and do puzzles for an hour, and he said that was the greatest thing,” his mom says. “After he graduated, his MENSA children's adviser told us he qualified, so we thought he might join the organization. We knew he could do things his peers couldn't, but I don't think we realized how good he was."

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“Then he had to return home. He was so sad that the puzzles were over. He even looked for new words to calm down. He didn't even care what MENSA was. He is just beginning to realize that he is more capable than other children. When he goes to school, I think he will understand more,” she said.

Teddy and his younger sister were conceived by their parents through in vitro fertilization.

“We’re not sure how he ended up like this, my husband and I are not linguists. So we always joke that the embryologist must have slipped some other needle or something to make him like this. We have no idea why he's so smart,” Beth says. “He is not currently diagnosed with autism or ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and because he is so far ahead, it is difficult to help him with his learning at this age.”

Beth says that Teddy's genius is both a blessing and a curse, as he shows little interest in some of the more "normal" things a boy might enjoy, such as games and television.

"It's challenging. My friends might say, 'Oh, we should have some tea,' and their kids won't understand what they're saying, but Teddy gets it right away. He doesn't miss anything, he listens to everything. He remembers the conversations you had with him at Christmas last year,” Beth says.

“When we had our daughter, we bought him a tablet so he could focus on her, but he was never really interested in gaming or anything. Instead, he just likes to use apps to try to learn how to count to 100 in Chinese and other languages. His idea of ​​fun is that he likes to sit and review his times tables, and once even got so excited about fractions that his nose started bleeding, she says. “It seems like it’s a quirk of his, and we’ll live with it, but we’re trying really hard not to make a big deal about it.”

The couple say they are trying to keep him "humble", given his genius, to prevent him from developing any kind of "superiority complex".

However, the toddler appears to be unaware of his abilities compared to other children of his age.

Beth added: “Now we are gradually approaching the point where kindergarten is starting to have a more formal curriculum. His friends can sort of read a couple of letters of the alphabet while he can read Harry Potter."

“I remember one day I brought him into the garden and said that, in my opinion, he had learned to read on his own - and at first they didn’t really believe me. Then his preschool teacher spoke to him that day. They just called me back and said, 'No, you're right, Beth,'" she said.

“We don't let him read Harry Potter - we choose books that are more emotionally appropriate, but essentially he's at the stage where he can read anything we give him. He now has a level of understanding that sometimes complicates things. So, for example, on Remembrance Day, he asked what war is and what poppies are for,” says the baby’s mother.

“It's hard to explain to him when he's so little, especially when he knows things like the war in Ukraine. He just has a high level of interest in conversation that is beyond what I think my friends talk about with their four year olds. He notices that his friends cannot read. We try to make sure he doesn't develop a superiority complex around it,” Beth says.

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“His social and developmental skills are really a top priority for us; we spent a lot of time trying to have these children so they should be good citizens. He wants to be a doctor one day because he and his friend like to play doctors in kindergarten, but if you ask him what he wants to be, he'll just say he wants to focus on being Teddy," she said.

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