And Speaking of Languages ...

Sixteen-year-old Tim Doner started with Hebrew, then went on to Arabic, Russian, Italian, Persian, Swahili, Indonesian, Hindi, Ojibwe, Pashto, Turkish, Hausa, Kurdish, Yiddish, Dutch, Croatian and German before finally finding an online family of like-minded language lovers (story and video): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/nyregion/a-teenage-master-of-languages-finds-online-fellowship.html?_r=1&hp