KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 — M Chatriyan may only be six years old but he is already on the way to becoming an accomplished polyglot.

He demonstrated his skills in speaking various languages in a TikTok showing the boy answering questions from his grandfather but switching to different languages as he went along.

His father M Moganasuntharan, 37, told Sinar Harian that his son was in the process of learning not just a few languages but 17, including Malay, Arabic, English, Japanese, Spanish, Urdu, Tamil, Korean and Russian.

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Chatriyan, he said, is not as interested as toys the way other children his age, preferring to read instead or in apps such as Duolingo ABC, a popular children’s reading app.

Here's to hoping Chatriyan keeps that love for learning alive as he gets older.