Talented Lingo Kid (Ravi)

A friend sent me the links to the following series of youtube videos on a street kid (Ravi) in India who sells peacock feather fans to tourists for a living. His ability to speak in different languages is simply phenomenal! This kid doesn't even go to school and simply picks up languages from talking to tourists.

In the two videos below, the person who uploaded these videos filmed Ravi over over a couple of different years (once in 2007, and once in 2009) displaying his skill with various languagues.

In this next video, we some more information on Ravi's background, his family, where he lives, and so on.

I was really wowed by these videos. It makes you wonder what other brainpower, skill, and potential like this exists in developing countries that simply lies untapped and is not even given a chance, while academic researchers like us get funded tens of thousands of dollars for publishing esoteric research articles that make little difference to science or humanity in any way.