O’Neal Mahmoud

[Jody]

Has anyone heard about this recent case of supposed Xenoglossy? A Druze toddler from Israel, "O’Neal Mahmoud," was recently discovered to speak English with a decidedly English accent. They don't show him saying much on the one video I found that shows him speaking, but he definitely sounds like a native speaker to me. The trouble is, speaking a foreign language without an accent is the one thing that young children can do exceptionally well, and it wouldn't take much time or exposure for them to learn it (on the other hand if an adult could suddenly speak a flawless foreign language that they'd never studied before, that would be pretty amazing!) https://www.odditycentral.com/news/...g-english-without-ever-having-learned-it.html

 

[briski]

Has anyone heard about this recent case of supposed Xenoglossy? A Druze toddler from Israel, "O’Neal Mahmoud," was recently discovered to speak English with a decidedly English accent. They don't show him saying much on the one video I found that shows him speaking, but he definitely sounds like a native speaker to me. The trouble is, speaking a foreign language without an accent is the one thing that young children can do exceptionally well, and it wouldn't take much time or exposure for them to learn it (on the other hand if an adult could suddenly speak a flawless foreign language that they'd never studied before, that would be pretty amazing!) https://www.odditycentral.com/news/...g-english-without-ever-having-learned-it.html

First ive heard of this one, thanks for posting