Daniel Tammett might learn Welsh. If he does, he'll do it in a week. Not completely, perhaps, and certainly not with a perfect accent. But he'll have a good handle on it. Something that would take most of us many months, if not years.
He's done it before, you see. He was once challenged to learn Icelandic in a week and prove it on a television show in Iceland. He did. Not with a perfect accent and not completely, but he had a handle on it.
If you have never heard of him before, Daniel Tammett is an autistic savant. He has a supernatural understanding of numbers and mathematics, and a similarly unique feel for languages. I am ordering his book Born on a Blue Day in order to study how he learns language. Hopefully I can learn a little something from him. I'll post a review on the site eventually.
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