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Nov 24, 2021 · By the time Sidis turned eight, he could speak eight languages, including Greek, English, and Russian. Later, he also created a language of his own that he called ‘Vendergood’.
May 26, 2021 · When William (Billy) Sidis was barely 3 years old, the story goes, he taught himself a language: Latin. By the time he was 6, he had added Russian, French, German, Hebrew, Armenian and Turkish to his lengthy linguistic resume — so the story goes — along with Latin and his native tongue, English.
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Apr 8, 2023 · In the early 20th century, a child prodigy captured the world’s attention with his exceptional intellect and early accomplishments. His name was William James Sidis, and his remarkable abilities in various fields of study, including mathematics, language, and history, earned him a reputation as one of the most intelligent people ever known.
- Robbie Mitchell
The apostles of Jesus in the New Testament had the "gift of tongues", which is the ability to speak foreign languages by miraculous means. Perhaps this fellow was also given miraculous powers, as doubtful as it seems. Without an act of God, however, it is not possible to learn a language in two days or speak 40 languages fluently.
William James Sidis was born on April 1, 1898. He would go on to become the greatest child prodigy in recorded history. Sidis's childhood feats are to this day rivaled only by those of Goethe and John Stuart Mill. His story will never cease to fascinate those who wish to understand the upper limits of human potential; his life will never cease ...
Born in 1898 and named for his father's mentor and colleague, psychologist-philosopher William James, Sidis began his rise to fame at the age of four, when he could use a typewriter to produce both English and French. By five, he could speak five languages and read Plato in the original Greek.
Aug 9, 2021 · Boris Sidis, driven to this country by the Russian pogroms of the late 19th Century, underwent incredible hardships before becoming a Harvard teacher. Along the way he married Sarah Mandelbaum, a ...
