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collins has named the most multilingual child in britain as 14 year-old scot, bruce baillie-hamilton.
the competition – launched to mark the start of a new range of online language learning courses – involved the search for the child (15 years and younger) in britain who could speak the widest range of languages.
the winner, bruce, speaks 7 languages: english (mother tongue), russian, mandarin, arabic, french, german and spanish.
british children who entered the competition spoke a wide range of languages, including: german, english, welsh, polish, french, hungarian, arabic, sinhalese, mandarin, spanish, dutch and italian. applicants were judged by collins language experts, in each language that the entrants professed to know, to verify their language competency.
as a prize for his linguist ability, bruce has won an ipad 2, and a selection of collins dictionaries for his school (beaconhurst school, stirling, scotland). he was awarded his prize at harpercollins’ headquarters in glasgow on monday 2nd april 2012.
bruce baillie-hamilton is 14 years old and speaks 7 languages. languages spoken are: english (mother tongue), russian, mandarin, arabic, french, german and spanish. he has been learning russian, mandarin and arabic with teachers at his home in scotland – his parents and grandparents do not speak any other languages apart from english. he has learnt french, german and spanish while at beaconhurst school, stirling, scotland.
bruce has been interviewed speaking in russian on russian tv channel, ntv, which has an audience of over 100 million russian speakers. last year, bruce passed gcse russian; this year he sat arabic and mandarin gcses, and as level russian (bruce will receive the results for these in august 2012).

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