One of the toughest languages in the world was mastered in one week by an autistic savant. He managed to prove his capabilities by participating on a live Iceland talk show—doing the entire interview in Icelandic.
Daniel Tammet has savant syndrome, which is a condition where a person with a mental disability, such as autism, demonstrates incredible prodigious-like capabilities that blow any normal person out of the water. Many can't learn a new language in their lifetime and Daniel challenged himself by learning one of the most complicated ones in a week.
His teachers didn't get their hopes up, but he managed to start absorbing the words "like a vacuum cleaner." When he went in front of the cameras to the live talk show, he fluently answered the interviewer's questions with the correct context and usage, blowing everyone away.
So while you struggle to pronounce that volcano that erupted there a couple years ago (remember Eyjafjallajkull?) Daniel Tammet will probably go on to learn a few more languages.
