Not long ago, the video of Trump's granddaughter arabella singing songs in Chinese, reciting the Classic of Three Characters and ancient poems became popular, which made 6-year-old arabella become a little star. Later, the video of two daughters of American financial tycoon Jim Rogers reading China's ancient poems also became popular on the Internet.

While being shocked by "feeling like a foreigner", domestic netizens also teased: Trump's granddaughter in online celebrity can be regarded as a formidable enemy ...

In fact, there is also a language prodigy in Russia. In 2116, Bella Devia kina, a little Russian girl who knew seven languages at the age of four, became popular because of the broadcast of a Russian program.

You know, there are only five official languages in the United Nations at present, but Bella has mastered seven languages at a young age. In addition to her native Russian, she can also speak English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic. Not only that, Bella can communicate fluently in these languages.

Not only is she talented in language, but Bella's knowledge is amazing. For example, when the Chinese-speaking little sister asks, "What do we breathe with?" Bella naturally replied, "We breathe with our lungs."

This year, 5-year-old Bella was selected as the youngest person in the BBC's 2117 Top 111 Outstanding Women in the World, and the selected series was "Literacy Rate". In addition, surprisingly, she has mastered a new foreign language-Italian. Today, five-year-old Bella has mastered eight languages.

"compared with this child, I look like an idiot." Some netizens wrote this in the comments.

how are prodigies cultivated? What's the trick to cultivate little Bella? Little Bella's mother, You Liya Devia kina, told Red Star News the story behind her growth and cultivation.

"child prodigy" cultivation

Mother repeatedly speaks alternately in foreign languages

and develops literacy through cards

You Liya is an English teacher, and her husband works in Moscow Institute of Radio Research and Development. Although the family background is ordinary, the couple regard their daughter's growth and development as the most important thing-< P > As early as in college, You Liya was very interested in ways to cultivate children's early development, and since then, she began to study bilingual education. After Bella was born, she tried to teach her daughter in these ways.

At first, You Liya just wanted to cultivate Bella's knowledge of English and Russian. So, since Bella was born, You Liya has been talking to her alternately in English and Russian. In order to avoid confusion between the two languages, she spoke English one day and Russian one day, and kept going back and forth. "I don't allow Russian words to appear in English conversations," You Liya told Red Star News.

Five months after Bella was born, You Liya began to use homemade cards to cultivate her literacy. When she was 111 months old, little Bella would hold out her little hand when she saw the word "hand" in Russian or English. Under the patient instruction of You Liya, Bella, one year old, has been able to recognize bilingual words on 61 cards.

You Liya told Red Star that Bella showed great interest in foreign languages at an early age. Before she could speak, Bella understood English and Russian, and pointed her hand at what the adults mentioned.

Seeing her daughter's talent, You Liya decided to take her 11-month-old Bella to learn a new language. She said, "We tried to join French, and the children were really interested in it. I still remember her standing in the crib, screaming and jumping excitedly when she heard French. "

At the age of 2, Bella was able to read books in Russian, English and French easily and speak some short sentences. At the age of 2 years and 7 months, Bella began to learn Chinese, which is her fourth language. You Liya said that Bella became so interested in this new language that she even volunteered to watch Chinese cartoons. Her favorite cartoon was Big Head Son and Little Head Dad. You Liya told Red Star News reporter: "We specially invited a Chinese teacher to come to class at home, three times a week, and talked with Bella in Chinese while she was playing. After studying for half a year, Bella has been able to speak fluent Chinese. "

At the age of 3 years and 2 months, Bella became interested in Spanish and German again, and then Arabic was included in the study plan. You Liya said that Bella likes playing hide-and-seek and reading children's books just like other children her age, but the difference is that she can read children's books in different languages.

tips for training

seize the opportunity of early education

dialogue is best conducted in daily life scenes

so, how to train children to be multilingual users? What are the tips and secrets?

You Liya told Red Star News reporter that it's actually very simple for children to master several foreign languages fluently, just talking with them in these languages every day. The sooner you talk to children in different languages, the higher their language proficiency and the higher their language fluency. Most importantly, all conversations are best conducted in daily life scenes, such as eating, bathing, walking and playing games.

You Liya said that Bella's language learning process is not sitting at a desk learning grammar and memorizing words as everyone imagined. In fact, on the contrary, all language classes are conducted in the form of games. Every month, Bella will only focus on learning one language (about 5 hours a week), while other languages only need to learn 2-3 hours a week.

With the exception of English and Russian, which were taught by You Liya himself, tutors were specially hired for other languages. Every day, 3-4 teachers from different languages will come to our home for classes, and each class lasts for 1.5 hours. The content of the class is to play games together, do crafts together, walk together, or read children's books together, but in this process, Bella needs to communicate with the teacher in a foreign language.

At the same time, You Liya said that her only requirement is to let Bella learn different languages as much as possible. Because learning a language is also a process of intellectual development, you can also exercise your child's brain while learning different language changes. At present, Bella has mastered three different languages: Indo-European, Semitic and Sino-Tibetan.

Responding to the query

Bella is not a child prodigy

What she studies is mainly based on interest

When the director of the program group "Great People" on Russian Channel 1 found Bella, she was only three and a half years old. At that time, she was still a little girl who could speak five languages. However, only half a year later, when the program began to record, she mastered two new languages. After the program was broadcast, the video of Bella's fluent conversation in seven languages became popular on social networks.

You Liya said that Bella's popularity was completely unexpected. They didn't intend to put Bella on the show, but Bella was very interested and decided to participate. After the program was recorded, Bella kept pestering You Liya and asked, "When will we go to the program again?"

Some people marvel that Bella is a genius, so powerful at such a young age. But at the same time, You Liya has been accused by many people: Why torture children?

In this regard, You Liya responded that Bella is not a so-called child prodigy, and they have invested a lot of time and energy in cultivating their children.

As for everyone's criticism, You Liya told Red Star News reporter: "What I want to say is, don't try to cultivate a child prodigy. Bella does have a gift for languages, but she is not a genius. Not every child needs to be able to speak 6 foreign languages, but any child can master 2-3 foreign languages as long as he finds the right method. We often communicate with parents who attach importance to their children's early development. These children have mastered 4-5 languages. This is not an exciting thing in our circle. "

You Liya emphasizes that they will not put any pressure on their children. Bella's learning is mainly based on interest. If she is not interested, we will not force her. For example, Bella has no interest in mathematics. She added: "We know very well that children can achieve great success only by doing what they like. Bella likes learning languages very much, so she can get such good results. "

For the future

I hope Bella will become an interesting person

In the future, the language will focus on English, French and Chinese

Besides learning languages, as a mother, You Liya hopes Bella can grow into an interesting person. To this end, she specially took her children to participate in English drama clubs, French painting classes and Spanish dance classes, and also specially found a German figure skating coach, so that Bella could complete language learning while cultivating her interest. In addition, activities will be organized regularly for Bella and other children so that they can grow up together in a multilingual environment.

You Liya said, "In Bella's dictionary, there is no word' learning', only' playing'. In summer, we will invite teachers to spend their holidays in the villa in the suburbs. Bella's holiday life is the same as other children's, swimming, figurining clay figurines, swinging and playing with eagles to catch chickens, but all the conversations during this period are conducted in foreign languages. As for whether it is Chinese, Arabic or other languages, it depends on the arrangement of the study plan. "

Last summer, You Liya took Bella to France. When communicating with children from other countries, Bella heard an unfamiliar language-Italian, and then she became interested in learning. You Liya said that there is no plan to let her children learn another language, because she and her husband know that their daughter will not use all the languages in her later life, and even some languages will gradually be forgotten. But whatever Bella wants to try, they will try their best to help. In this way, Bella soon mastered her eighth language.

At present, Bella hasn't attended kindergarten yet, and she just participates in some interest courses according to her hobbies. "When she (Bella) starts school, we will focus on English, French and Chinese," You Liya told Red Star News. "We are not worried that she is not interested in the content of the class. Because apart from being able to discuss problems in different languages, her knowledge is no different from that of other children of the same age. "

Regarding the children's future, You Liya said, "Actually, we don't have any plans or ideas. The most important thing in our hearts is that Bella can find the focus of life and have fun from it. "