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in
cambodia there is a boy who can speak
not just one or two or five
languages but 12 different languages
who is this boy why does he speak 12
languages
and is he going to learn every language
in the world
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in this house in the remote country of
cambodia
i found saliq
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for most of his life he lived in one of
the poorest parts of cambodia
spending most of his day selling
souvenirs
to tourists
so instead of going to school like other
kids
salik had to work just so that his
family
could have a meal on the table
come on
every morning he would get up go to the
nearby temples
and sell to the tourists until
one day he discovered something about
himself he discovered
that he's really good at languages
no matter if it's chinese
japanese or french
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could sing the foreign words fluently
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so he asked every tourist to teach him
a new word and from the thousands of
tourists
that he helped he learned an entire
language
yes everything he learned was not from
any class it was just from listening
to tourists
like
one day someone filmed sally speaking
multiple languages and uploaded the
video online
suddenly the internet went crazy about a
boy
selling souvenirs in cambodia who could
speak
more languages than adults he got on the
news
received tons of donations and even a
scholarship to a university
in china
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on facebook
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and the next thing he knew he was on a
plane
to china now he is getting a formal
education
so that he can make proper money to help
his family his future kids and his
future grandkids
escape poverty
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tourists are the reason this kid has a
scholarship to study in china
tourism is how his family survived
and will continue to survive covet 19
is killing tourism but it's also killing
opportunities like this one let's hope
for a world
where people can travel freely learn
from each other freely and empower each
other
to be better
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