Rameses Sanguino. Photo: Youtube screen grab via LAist Learning languages has all kinds of benefits. But if a recent news story is any indication, doing so won't just give you the ability to read books in a foreign language, you might also be able to read minds.
Okay, so maybe that's a bit of a stretch. But, nevertheless, the story that inspired it is nothing if not interesting. It involves a 5-year-old boy with autism living in the Los Angeles area, who has mastered 6 languages, and may have an ability which defined broadly and without unnecessary levels of skepticism be thought of as telepathy. According to LAist, Rameses Sanguino, the 5-year-old in question, has mastered Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish - and of course, English. Here's a video they've found of him speaking Chinese. He also has quite the knack for algebra. But what about his mind reading abilities? LAist reports: "Nyx [Sanguino, Rameses's mother] believes that her son may also have other mental powers, including the ability to read her thoughts. She said that she can pick a number and that Ramses will guess it correctly, as many as 38 times in a row. Neuroscientist Dr. Dianne Powell has been testing Ramses' so-called telepathy, and said that it could be linked to the fact that Ramses has autism." So if average folks like you and I try to become mind readers by learning six languages, we might not have the same success. Nevertheless - assuming Rameses' rather limited mind reading display is genuine, which is still a hefty assumption to make - could there be some common root that connects these abilities? After all, they are both forms of communication. It remains to be seen if Rameses's mind reading is the real deal, though regardless of this, his language abilities in their own right are impressive. But even if you're not convinced that language learning and mind reading are linked, there are still plenty of other great reasons to learn another language. Comments are closed.
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