my niece's daughter can speak four languges at the age of 5

Wow.. That's very talented of her. My cousin is also 5 and she can speak 3. She can speak English, Mandarin and a Chinese dialect called Hokkien. When I was 5, I could speak 3 languages too. Currently, I'm learning Japanese.

Wow.This kid is incredible.4 languages at 5!It`s nice to see that the kids are learning so fast.I wish her good luck.By the way-my sister speaks 3 languages at age of 6.Of cource...I guess she doesen`t need more.So...it`s nice to be surrounded by inteligent people who are not boring.

Pretty impressive, I don't know how they did it but they did a good job in training their daughter to speak 4 languages at the age of 5. I am having problems already in training my boys to speak 3 languages. I guess its because we have only one primary language at home, the one that my husband and his parents speak. I am the only who is more fluent in English and who knows how to speak in Chinese. And I am the one who is not home most of the time. Imagine me having to say something 3 times for them to know what a single word meant hehe

Yes, it is a known fact that very young children 3 &4 mostly, pick up languages very fast... I have seen the same with my own four year old learning a new language over three months in two seperate instances

It is incredible how kids can learn fast. I heard that the best way to learn something is when you are 5-6 years old because then our brain is like sponge. We remember anything. I have a friend who is Croatian and his wife is French. The kid speaks both Croatian and French. It can't be bad to know many languages after all, can it? :D