“Well mummy, I’m counting in Mandarin” Boy who taught himself to read as a toddler accepted as the UK's youngest member of Mensa
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A boy who taught himself to read as a toddler has been accepted as the UK's youngest member of Mensa. Four-year-old Teddy, from Portishead in Somerset, can count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Mandarin.Teddy's mother, Beth Hobbs, said 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 pre-school teacher to check, who said 'yes he can read!'"Teddy's mum Beth said he "chooses a topic to be interested in every couple of months or so, and sometimes it's numbers, it was times tables for a while, which was intense, countries and maps, then learning to count in different languages""He was playing on his tablet, making these sounds that I just didn't recognise, and I asked him...
"If he can do these things, then fine, but he sees it like 'yes I can read, but my friend can run faster than me', so we've all got our individual talents."
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