Video on Daniel Tammet is entitled “Extraordinary People- The Boy with the incredible brain”
The genius Daniel Tammet, a British autistic savant, gifted with a facility for mathematics problems, sequence memory, and natural language learning. For a television documentary, he was challenged to learn Icelandic (supposedly one of the hardest languages to learn) in only one week’s time. When tested in front of an audience, the instructor described his ability as “not human”.
Daniel Tammet can speak languages including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. Daniel has created his own language since he was a child. He calls it ‘Mänti’.
