Bella Devyatkina's parents were able to ensure that a little 4-year-old girl began to communicate immediately in 7 languages. A polyglot speaks English with ease, knows Arabic, and also...
Bella Devyatkina
Real geniuses are sometimes born in the world, regardless of the political, social or other situation on the planet. Someone has an innate musical talent, someone has a unique mathematical mindset, and someone is a polyglot.Such people from a very young age learn an incredibly huge amount of information: foreign languages, knowledge in completely different sciences, everyday skills. These people are absolutely unique and unrepeatable.
A little girl came to the show "Amazing People" - a polyglot named Bella Devyatkina. In appearance, a completely ordinary 4-year-old baby, in fact, is a truly brilliant child. At her age, she knows as much as an adult, educated person does not know. In addition to knowledge of various foreign languages, she is also enlightened in other areas. I'm shocked!
Video from the show amazing people in which four-year-old girl Bella Devyatkina demonstrates knowledge of six languages
Comments: curtsy, stegosaurus. slept that they prepared. but children have a good memory, at least for a stegosaurus and a curtsy, or read an unknown rhyme at 4 without hesitation. if she was an indigo child, the language would be adult.
Of course, everything is delightful and touching, but you understand that this is a performance for cattle?!
It seems to me that the girl remembers some of these languages from past lives. There are many cases in the world when people who have never learned languages and speak them probably pop up in her memory when someone starts speaking these languages. Maybe this could be one of the options.
Amazing people - who are they? The main characters of the project of the TV channel "Russia" amaze the imagination. They are capable of anything: their talent is beyond the bounds of the possible. The unique abilities of the participants in the show will make the viewer believe that there is no limit to the human mind.
Someone thinks in the mind faster than any computer. Someone can tell by eye the speed of all the cars on the highway. Someone is able to memorize the contents of hundreds of books in one view, solve a Rubik's cube with his eyes closed, break a glass on the table with the power of his voice, recognize the outlines of any state on the planet ...
Phenomenal personalities who have shown miracles of memory and intuition will demonstrate their gift.
Thousands of people responded to the invitation to take part in the show. Large-scale casting lasted more than three months. In order to catch phenomenal people from a sea of capable people, the selection committee traveled to 40 cities in Russia, the CIS countries and neighboring countries.
Based on the results of a thorough selection, 48 people were selected to participate in the show.
An open uncompromising competition awaits them: the show "Amazing People" is not just a demonstration of talents, this is a battle of the X-men!
This is a competition in which only one participant will be the winner.
"The most amazing of the amazing" will be chosen by the audience in the studio, and the star guests of the show will help them in this: the famous dancer, choreographer and participant in the "Dancing with the Stars" project Evgeny Papunaishvili, the absolute world boxing champion among professionals Natalya Ragozina and the actress, journalist, TV presenter Olga Shelest.
Star guests have the right to intervene once in the course of the audience voting and give one of the participants a chance to go to the final of the show.
An expert can also influence the choice of finalists: Professor Vasily Klyucharev from the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research takes part in the show.
Contest Rules
Eight contestants take part in each edition. Each participant will have to pass a test in which he will be able to show the uniqueness of his abilities.
All performances are evaluated by the audience in the studio, they choose one participant who goes to the final.
In the final, the best of the best will compete for the title of winner and the main prize of the "Amazing People" project.
Interesting Facts
- Casting editors watched more than 500 hours of video with the performance of potential participants.
- The fastest mental mathematicians of our country and the world take part in the project.
- The age of the youngest participant of the project is 3.5 years.
- One of the participants flew to Moscow to shoot, despite the fact that she was confined to a wheelchair from the age of 18, pregnant in her fifth month and terrified of air travel.
- The participant of the test on the skating track, especially for the competition, took the skates that bring good luck from his father, the multiple world champion Sergey Klevchenya.
- The producers of the project found 24 pairs of twins who will be present in the studio at the same time.
Leading - TV presenter and producer Alexander Gurevich
Project page
The four-year-old Muscovite captivated viewers, users of YouTube and the social network Facebook. In the TV show "Amazing People" she showed the ability to speak seven languages.
Read the full version of the conversation with Yulia Devyatkina below and listen to the audio recording.
A. MITNOVITSKAYA: Bella Devyatkina, seven languages, four years. Julia Devyatkina, Bella's mother is in touch with us now. Hello Julia!
M. SHAKHNAZAROV: Good morning!
Y. DEVYATKINA: Good morning!
A.M.: Now explain to us how you did it.
Yu.D.: Initially, there was an idea to teach the child English so that she would speak Russian and English at the native level. Therefore, from birth, I began to speak two languages with her.
A.M.: And how is it done? I have been always interested in. Word by word, sentence by sentence, day by day. How is it done - two languages at the same time?
Yu.D.: No, the main idea is that the languages don't mix. That is, we alternated languages - a Russian day, an English day, and so on. From morning to evening, one day we live in Russian, the next day in English.
A.M.: Wasn't she confused? A child is a living organism, whatever one may say.
Yu.D.: We have elements of mixing, but they are minimal, that is, in fact, she did not mix, as I think, due to the fact that I followed the time separation very clearly.
I did not allow during our conversation in English to wedged in Russian into the conversation
Y. Devyatkina
M.Sh.: I knew kids who studied at a language school with three languages: English, Latvian and Russian. And in the end, they came out as complete ignoramuses.
A.M.: Does that mean you didn't learn a single one?
M.Sh.: On the contrary, everything was just right with the languages. But it was a time when language was considered a second profession. They said that they think in Latvian, they answer in English, then we switch to Russian, there was a mess.
Yu.D.: We communicate in such an environment of families where people are all interested in early development and where the priority is the education of the child. And also children are brought up in a multilingual environment. We communicate and share results. And people who have experience in this, noted that the child has obvious language abilities and it makes sense for us to connect more languages, while age allows it. Because it is well known that up to 3-5 years the child is maximally able to absorb the language at the native level. After five years, this ability in a person disappears.
M.Sh.: I knew a man who is absolutely fluent in eight.
A.M.: And it was at seven.
Yu.D.: Yes, it was at seven, and we do not plan to add more.
A.M.: And why?
Yu.D.: It takes time.
To practice each language regularly, you need at least three times a week
Y. Devyatkina
Therefore, doing classes in each language three times a week is a fairly large time resource.
A.M.: So you decided to leave all seven? Because that's already quite a lot. She will walk after school and study each language for an hour. When will she do the rest?
Yu.D.: As for the school, the question is still open. We would like it to be a school where teaching is conducted in one of these languages, so that she learns in one of these languages at school. Accordingly, I deal with Russian and English with her myself, and we will continue to support other languages, but, probably, already in a less intensive mode.
A.M.: What language are you willing to give up if you have a choice?
Yu.D.: Possibly from Spanish. Though I hope I don't have to.
A.M.: Why from him?
Yu.D.: The fact is that Spanish is the same language group as French. For her, it was very easy initially, because it is similar to French. But we still leave it in some form.
A.M.: Yulia Devyatkina, mother of little Bella.
Read the full version of the conversation with Yulia Devyatkina above and listen to the audio recording.
Amazing people - who are they? The main characters of the project of the TV channel "Russia" amaze the imagination. They are capable of anything: their talent is beyond the bounds of the possible. The unique abilities of the participants in the show will make the viewer believe that there is no limit to the human mind.
Someone thinks in the mind faster than any computer. Someone can tell by eye the speed of all the cars on the highway. Someone is able to memorize the contents of hundreds of books in one view, solve a Rubik's cube with his eyes closed, break a glass on the table with the power of his voice, recognize the outlines of any state on the planet ...
Phenomenal personalities who have shown miracles of memory and intuition will demonstrate their gift.
Thousands of people responded to the invitation to take part in the show. Large-scale casting lasted more than three months. In order to catch phenomenal people from a sea of capable people, the selection committee traveled to 40 cities in Russia, the CIS countries and neighboring countries.
Based on the results of a thorough selection, 48 people were selected to participate in the show.
An open uncompromising competition awaits them: the show "Amazing People" is not just a demonstration of talents, this is a battle of the X-men!
This is a competition in which only one participant will be the winner.
"The most amazing of the amazing" will be chosen by the audience in the studio, and the star guests of the show will help them in this: the famous dancer, choreographer and participant in the "Dancing with the Stars" project Evgeny Papunaishvili, the absolute world boxing champion among professionals Natalya Ragozina and the actress, journalist, TV presenter Olga Shelest.
Star guests have the right to intervene once in the course of the audience voting and give one of the participants a chance to go to the final of the show.
An expert can also influence the choice of finalists: Professor Vasily Klyucharev from the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research takes part in the show.
Contest Rules
Eight contestants take part in each edition. Each participant will have to pass a test in which he will be able to show the uniqueness of his abilities.
All performances are evaluated by the audience in the studio, they choose one participant who goes to the final.
In the final, the best of the best will compete for the title of winner and the main prize of the "Amazing People" project.
Interesting Facts
- Casting editors watched more than 500 hours of video with the performance of potential participants.
- The fastest mental mathematicians of our country and the world take part in the project.
- The age of the youngest participant of the project is 3.5 years.
- One of the participants flew to Moscow to shoot, despite the fact that she was confined to a wheelchair from the age of 18, pregnant in her fifth month and terrified of air travel.
- The participant of the test on the skating track, especially for the competition, took the skates that bring good luck from his father, the multiple world champion Sergey Klevchenya.
- The producers of the project found 24 pairs of twins who will be present in the studio at the same time.
Leading - TV presenter and producer Alexander Gurevich
Project page
Bella Devyatkina is the youngest participant in the show "Amazing People" literally when the video of the program got on YouTube. The four-year-old girl is fluent in seven languages - Russian, English, French, Chinese, Spanish, German and Arabic. Bella has recently started learning more Italian. Bella is taught English by her mother (an English teacher). Bella teaches other languages with teachers from different countries.
About how to achieve such a result, what methods parents used in teaching Bella and whether the girl has time to play - Yulia Devyatkina, the mother of Russia's most famous polyglot child, told Motherhood.
Julia, before Bella was born, did you decide that you would study languages with her? Or did you start exercising from birth, noticed interest and continued?
Yes, fortunately, about the possibilities artificial bilingualism I found out long before Bella was born. Back in my student years, I met a mother who raised her bilingual son on her own, and then I decided that when I have a child, I will definitely teach him English from birth. When Bella was born, from the very first days I began to speak two languages with her. Initially, there were no thoughts about seven languages, of course. But noticing the child's interest and excellent progress in understanding languages, I decided to add French at 10 months. Successes by 2.5 years were so obvious that in 2 years 7 months. we decided to add Chinese as well. After a few months, Bella became fluent in Chinese. Further, in the period from 3 years to 3.4 years, we introduced 3 more languages: Spanish, German, Arabic.
Elena Say:"What " artificial bilingualism"? With "natural" bilingualism, everything is clear. A child is born into a family of parents who speak different languages, and from childhood absorbs two languages at the same time. As a rule, each parent communicates one-on-one with the child in their native language, and the language of the country in which the family lives is chosen at the common table. And this language, one way or another, as a rule, begins to dominate over time.
But it turns out that there is also artificial bilingualism! This is the study of a foreign language from birth with a teacher - a native speaker. It is believed that up to 8 years any foreign language can be mastered without sitting at a desk, textbooks and lessons in the classical sense - simply by immersing the child in the environment.
This I can confirm from my personal experience. 1.5 years ago we moved to Germany. My daughter was 3 at the time. She only learned to speak Russian and ended up in a German kindergarten. Nobody deals with German separately under special conditions. She just spends 5 days a week 7 hours a day in a German garden - playing with German children and chatting with German caregivers. Now, a year later, I can say that she speaks German fluently and without mistakes. For me, it’s just a miracle!”
I saw a video like Bella, at 1 year and 3 months old. “reads” cards with words - tummy, ear, eyes, hello, swing, eat - and points to this part of the body or shows a written action. That is, the child does not yet know how to speak, but ... already knows how to read? Please tell us about this system of learning with cards - did you show her cards with words from what age? How often? Were the word cards only in Russian?
No, I have no such concerns. I think that a child should not be overloaded with what he does with pleasure.
How do you relax with your family? Do you have your own family traditions, rituals - like Sunday dinner or watching good children's films on Sundays?
We do not have such traditions, but we, like any other family, like to go to a cafe, an amusement park or just for a walk together.
It seems to me that learning so many foreign languages at the same time requires huge resources on the part of parents - both material, and moral, and temporal. This is the organization of all these lessons, logistics, scheduling, etc. Are you, as a mother, not tired of this? What is your global, ultimate goal? What future do you see for Bella?
Indeed, the organization of such classes requires a certain amount of time from parents. I do not get tired of it, because it is interesting to me, I am passionate about the process. My goal is for my daughter to be interested in growing up, and for her to carry her interest in knowing this world through her whole life. After all, when nothing around is interesting, life loses its meaning. I don't have any specific plans for Bella's future. I just want it to be comprehensively developed and have interests in various fields. It seems to me that a person who is interested in a lot is a happy person who is able to enjoy life even in old age.
- Does Bella herself understand that she is different from other children? Are you aware of your uniqueness?
As a family, we don't emphasize that Bella is different from her peers, so she doesn't know about it. We also ask people we know to avoid the words “star”, “wunderkind”, “genius”, etc.
Photo - from the personal archive of Yulia Devyatkina
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