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Teddy, from Portishead in Somerst, can count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Mandarin, according to the report.A child who taught himself to read at age two made the cut a year later, according to theTeddy, from Portishead in Somerset, can count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Mandarin, according to the report.Teddy’s mother, Beth Hobbs, told the BBC he learned to read at just 26 months old “by watching children’s television and copying the sounds of letters.

“He started tracing the letters and so when we sent him back to nursery after COVID lockdown we told them we thought he’d taught himself how to read,” she said. “We had a phone call back from the nursery, who’d sent a preschool teacher to check, who said ‘yes he can read!’ “He was playing on his tablet, making these sounds that I just didn’t recognize, and I asked him what it was, and he said “Mummy, I’m counting in Mandarin,” said Hobbs.Copyright Postmedia Network Inc., 2023

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