Ravi , a young Gujarati boy, now known as the Lingo Kid all over the internet, sells the peacock feathers his grandmother makes to tourists at Mumbai’s Hanging Gardens.
He was eight when he started selling feathers and could not speak English. In a few years Ravi could rattle off a sale in more languages than the Pope — and with a faster tongue and sharper accent. He’s full of fun facts too, such as the seasons in which various nationalities prefer to travel. Spaniards and Italians he says, love to visit Mumbai in the monsoon.
This year, at age 15, he was interviewed again by the same Englishman named Sammy, going on record to say that he didn’t want to go to school, because there he could learn just English, whereas out on the street he’s picked up 10 different tongues.
If the ingenuity of Mumbai’s street hawkers and pavement peddlers needed a poster boy, Ravi the Lingo Kid would be it.
How many languages can you speak?
Source: CNN Go
