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Charles Berlitz (1914-2003); fluent in 32 languages --

As a child, Charles was raised in a household in which (by his father's orders) every relative and servant spoke to Charles in a different language: he reached adolescence speaking eight languages fluently.

In adulthood, he recalled having the childhood delusion that every human being spoke a different language, and wondering why he did not have his own language like everyone else in his household. His father spoke to him in German, his grandfather in Russian, his nanny in Spanish.

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Language acquisition by infants (a PBS video and a book -- both highly recommended):

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ brain/eposide2/video.html

"The Scientist in the Crib" by Drs. Gopnik, Meltzoff & Kuhl (by HarperCollins, 2000).

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