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Could you please explain the meaning of this part of a sentense.
...a child who can read at one and is conjugating Latin verbs at four.
Is it "...a child who can easily read Latin texts, but is not so well-skilled in inflecting Latin verbs"?
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a child who can read at one and is conjugating Latin verbs at four. a child who can easily read Latin texts, but is not so well-skilled in inflecting Latin verbs"? Not at all.
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AaronArt..a child who can read at one and is conjugating Latin verbs at four. Is it "...a child who can easily read Latin texts, but is not so well-skilled in inflecting Latin verbs"?
Not at all.
At one year old, the child can read Latin, and at four years old, the child can conjugate Latin verbs.
Both indicate that the child is a prodigy
John Stuart Mill began to study Greek at age 3 and was reading Plato a few years later.
Mozart, who began composing at age 5, wrote his first symphony at age 8.