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Meet 19-year-old medicine and surgery student who speaks 6 foreign languages fluently

Nigerians have been making the news recently for their ingenuity, and a 19-year-old medicine and surgery student of the University of Nigeria has joined the list with her ability to speak Korean, Swahili, Shona, Filipino, Spanish, and Indonesian fluently without leaving the shores of Nigeria.

The disclosure was made by a Twitter user Maazi Ogbonnaya, who also said the teenager could write, teach and translate the aforementioned languages.

Wothappen.com notes that Nigerians took to the comment section of the tweet to express their surprise at the teenager’s level of intelligence.

Meet my 19-year old mentee; a current student of Medicine & Surgery, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus who speaks, writes, teaches, translates fluently the following 6 Languages: Korean, Swahili, Shona, Filipino, Spanish, and Indonesian without stepping out of Nigeria. pic.twitter.com/BfiCzurVTQ
— Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro (@maazi_ogbonnaya) February 18, 2020

Others doubted the fact that she could speak those languages fluently, saying she may have taken basic courses in those foreign languages.

Below are some of the comments:

Me for over 25years 😂😂😂i can't hear come .
— K E N E 🦀 (@khezkk) February 19, 2020

she speaks doesn't languages fluently?? without interacting with local natives of said languages. I think the word "fluently" is over the top, may be intermediate user but definitely not fluently
— conquistador (@BilfingaMax) February 19, 2020

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