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  • im a freestyle rapper and im autistic. the way he looks at numbers i look at words and rymes.

  • @Omikron404 Y thxs. BTW tht's sarcasim

  • Icelandic is easy for me. So is Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japense and Maderin Chinese. But he was amazing for being live on national television. The way he sees numbers, I see language.

  • @MakeupwithAshley15 You're also very good at sounding like a total dick who is full of himself. Well done you.

  • Ya, Icelantic isn't that bad. I would give him asian languages or a language from a super rural tribe in africa that has no text books.

  • How nice to pick up a language so quickly. I wonder if he can speak Navajo?

  • I really want to hear him speak an asian language

  • he's Harry potter and the rest of us are all muggles

  • @Ev1on sorry for my bad English btw^^"

    Anyway, sometimes 80 years isn't enough to be happy :P

    (And sry for this kind of anger)

    Just try to remember every phone number around the globe. :)

  • @Ev1on I hate those comments, saying "Yes, I know, you're more intelligent than me", "I'm so stupid".. That's not true. I can't accept it.. I've been thinking a long time that anyone could do such things.. But.. People always think there are just 'exceptions' among the rest. Bullshit, more complaint for more frustration ?

    You have roughly 80 years before dying. So fucking do something to be proud of.^^

  • 2 people are jealous...

  • i want his ability to learn languages so fast u_u

  • lol im so stupid . . .

  • 0:38 his 'two-four-two today' looks like a dick :O

  • wouild anybody no the song at 8 min please as tried to find it for months thanks....

  • vieni a imparare l'italiano allora

  • thumbs up if wached part 2 and 1 ! :P*

  • how did they know he did not already know iclandic?

  • What strikes me is how meek and humble he seems. A godlike mind (for lack of a better term) and still humble .

  • EXTRAORDINARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i can eat and take a shit at the same time

  • yea that younger researcher is a douche....i smell jealousy!

  • It's kinda creepy that 6 is the number he doesn't like.

  • i don't like this "bastardized version of pi" Mr. curly hair efron,

    i wish you wouldn't make fun of him :((

  • I can hear energy transmitted by humans, that's the only extraordinary thing i can do, i can for example hear if someone's in the room, even when im listening to music with my headphones.

  • Really interesting case!

  • I'm Icelandic, and I have many foreign friends that have spent time in Iceland, and never have I seen anyone come close to speaking that good Icelandic after only a week. He didn't speak perfectly, but I would say it would take at least 2 or 3 years for a "normal" adult foreigner to learn Icelandic that well.

    Maybe my friends are just stupid?

  • being normal sucks.....

  • People with mild Autism are always so gentle and gifted. You just instantly love them. 

  • I totally agree. Over the last year I have been talking to many people on the internet with aspergers (mild autism) and there really kind helpful people. I have been going through a really tough time getting chucked into the real world and getting bullied and have been having constant shutdowns due to the stress, and the autistic community has really helped me. weaveintothewin2 (from youtube) has been the most helpful. He specializes in autism help and information. Aswell as Blackstarzero's help

  • I have never been more jealous in my entire life haha

  • I'm sceptical about this one. Not saying he's faking. I guess he's the only one to know if it's true or not.

  • the "no bullshitting" guy is gay , nothing wrong with it just that i think he might have a crush on the genius fellow,ooh science love:X :))

  • Rain man is a word for the Devil in some cultures.

  • they all sound like bjork

  • what a dick with the pi trick

  • I LOVE PIE TOO :D

  • I wonder what 69 looks like to him. ;) He molds a penis. Hahahaahah

  • They should have this guy study crop circles. If he associates shapes to numbers, maybe he do the opposite and associate numbers to shapes.

  • i wonder why he hates 6 so much, yet he doesn't mind 9... they're basically the same

  • wow amazing i wanted my mind to wrk lik tht but oo well we geniuses in our own way anyway everyones different.........

  • I was a bit mean, I played a trick on Daniel.

    He said he loved pie.

  • interesting that the number 6 is described as absence,,,,black hole...emptyness...!!..

  • @FlashmoreGash reminds me of the number of the beast

  • there'r ppl faster with calculations then him. but this guy can learn anything thats kool. and he just said the stuff come out without thinking so he has prove that thinking is a waste of time that makes u make mistake. just like the joker from the dark knight hahaha just act without thinking.

  • @tezopapa Clearly, you were not thinking either whilst typing that comment.

  • @Felipe058 wow u r good. now that u made me think. i really wasn't thinking haha. u should be on a show like that.

  • what i want to know is how come the government hasen't secreted him off for some top secret research or something

  • @tex4377 how do you know they haven't?

  • i want someone to hit me in the head with a baseball.

  • Sounds a bit like Norwegian.

  • @middleC17 same roots

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  • 00:38 YEAH THERE IS A REMARKABLE SIMILARITY CUZ ONE WENT UP YOUR EASY ARSE AND THE OTHER WENT UP YOUR COLLEAGUES TIGHT SHITTER!

  • That younger researcher is an asshole...

  • ive spent a little longer than a week in iceland and i know exactly what everyone was saying word for word with ease, the math is very impressive, but the icelandic part i wasn't so much.

  • @DobbysChannel Dude your a douche bag. Your comparing yourself to this guy, get a life.

  • @mcwonderboy im not trying to take away from how extraordinary this guy is, i'm just saying that they shouldn't have emphasized how amazing his language learning skill is, especially after showing how unbelievable his math and memory abilities are. it doesn't really fit because its not as impressive. i didn't compare myself to him, well.. actually i kinda did. just not on purpose =b

  • @DobbysChannel yeh well do u know that landuage?

  • @xxxkepxxx not fluently, but pretty well

  • they missed the interview with the actual rain man :s

    There were certainly bits missed in this 3 part.

    The one I watched before was a 5 part...

  • That younger researcher is awesome in his own right. An asshole of sorts, but also awesome. "--all of sudden there's a pit where it's not supposed to be, and, you know, this mountain that's missing and it's really, it's--it's wrong and how could you do that to something so beautiful?" :D Good to see researchers with a working sense of humor. Fun times.

  • I think Daniel should make many many babies and get cloned.. lol

  • lol think him on heavy drugs, it would be like numbers everywhere :P

  • @geppegep lol.. hahahaa..

  • 3.14 this pie makes me feel warm as well. rainmen;)

  • They gave him smaller shapes

  • I also get a wonderful warm reaction from pie :)

  • @FOATE yeh me three!!!

  • I hate that mean guy. :|

  • That would so cool to learn a complete language in 7 days. Go Daniel go.

  • My intuitionistic logic is saying, our brains can associate with all lobs on a synesthesiatic basis if we use creativeness instead of rules, laws and regulation which is reductionistic. The algorithms of the creative non prejudice brain, has his own computational linguistics, this makes information processing more efficiënt.

  • @TheWayshowerTube I don't know how to divide, because i forgot when i was younger, however I use other ways of creative thinking to get my answers in almost all I do, Math, Science, English, I dropped out of school for 2 years when I was 17 years old, I came back and graduated with University level Math, Science, Reading and Writing. I don't consider myself a genius or anything, I just consider myself an artist and a creative thinker. This is how I get through life, not with formulas.

  • induce a seizure to tap into a certain part of the brain.

  • 3:15 - "no bullshitting" is now a scientific term lol

  • When he said i went to play a trick on him because he said he liked Pi because of the warm feeling he gets from it, i thought he was gonna pie him in the face and say "Does it feel warm!".

  • This makes me feel im not using my brain to its potential :P

  • @hrolla09 but in this case...he's not doing math or using the brain to do the math...the brain is using him to give the answer....still amazing,also the easy way he learn new language

  • truly astonishing

  • ile pay someone to give me this song name at 8 min as it means allot to me if you can help please let me no this song thank you as i looked everyplace for it but to no luck what so ever .

  • if anybody can tell me the song at 8 min please do as i checked and looked everyplace but cant get this song thanks.

  • Of course Daniel has to (maybe or maybe not consciously) know what multiplication, or powers, or squareroots are. :P

  • Ég er að læra íslensku og það er mjög erfitt! This guy is good.

  • He should try learning Glaswegian!!!! Even people from Glasgow cant understand each other ;-)

  • @kmotch  LOL

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  • I've heard people say that Finnish and Icelandic are the most complicated languages in Europe.

  • throw in Lithuanian into that list. being the closest surviving relative to the original indo-european tongue with it's archaic sounds lithuanian is a very tough thing to tackle. it is one of top 10 living ancient languages and so close to sanskrit that by knowing lithuanian language and by applying correct rules you could read and understand sanskrit pretty perfectly

  • 789 - yeah also Swedish & Danish is very Difficult too. i tried all of them & can speak some words in each one But learning it fluently i doubt ill do it some words are hard to pronounce

  • Yeah. Since i'm a Finn, i have to study Swedish in school, but i really suck at it. But they say that if you speak Swedish, Danish and Norwegian can be learned more easily because the languages are very similiar.

  • @789123Y

    try ur luck with arabic...then compare them with Scandinavian languages.

  • Well of course arabic is in it's own class because of completely new letters and writing system.

  • Does anybody no the name of the tune that comes in at 8.00? cheers.

  • It is curious that the number 6 is frightening or is a pit.

  • Math is the basic language of the word. Maybe 6 is a representation of negation or a number that has a connotation in a base equation we haven't figure out.

    I wonder what 3x6 and it's answer or the actual number 666 feel or represent for him.

    I wouldn't view it as a spiritual sense. But it would be interesting *WHY* that numbers specifically was chosen to be vilified in such a religious text.

  • i am sure there much more thn w can even imagine i remember that scene on the movie contact we that genius millionare decode what the ufo sent,a 3 dimensional decode to not encapsulate things.there might be something like that in reality

  • You're an idiot.

  • Your basing the level of my inteligence on a single youtube post? Wow, you must be incredibly smart; do all of the major learning outlets know about your amazing ability?

  • Yes, in fact they do.

    And I chose to interpret your comment as being serious. If it wasn't, then please forgive me.

  • tl;dr

    you're*

    ntglhf

  • It's "you're" and not "your"

  • 613 is actually the number of the devil they made a mistake when translating.

  • im an idiot

  • i love the music at 8:17

  • id like to know if his visions are 1 dimensional or more. my brother is a maths wiz where as i cannot even do the times tables, i asked him when we were kids how does he do it.. he said he sees the numbers like a picture in his head & he just reads them. I on the other hand can memorize minute detail in pictures but he cannot. weird.

  • I think we can all take a little comfort in the fact that we all experience a little synesthesia when it comes to somethings. Maybe not to the level of Mr. Tammet, but it's nice to remember we are a unique species on this planet.

  • every species and life form is unique..

  • music synthesaesia is very common, and easily faked, not so with math.

  • I have musical synesthaesia, but it's not your average music. It's about the frequencies that music is mixed in, warm or cold, the colours of the wideness in reverb of music and stuff like that.

  • @soulmman

    Probably we all have a bit of a musical synesthaesia. We all understand musical description like music is "dark" "warm" or "cold". Musicians and studio engineers also use terms like a sound is "meaty" "thick" "fat" "thin" etc etc

    Even if you've never heard those terms applied to music before you immediately get their meanings. But of course a sound is not literally thick because a sound has no substance.

    Obviously this is not synesthaesia on a high level, but synesthaesia non the less

  • hahaha

  • ahahaahaha, roflmfao, he got 7 thumb down and u got 3 thumb down. wonder how many thumb down i will get!

  • Put my pic? What kind of man do you take me for? I'll put a foot up your ass, and that's as close to my face as your gonna get.

  • I heard from somewhere else that you are a dumb sack of horse shit and that people are better off disbelieving you and continuously throwing stones at your face while chanting " For hes a jolly good dumb ass for hes a jolly good dumb ass"

  • he's gay what a pity he may loose his power by giving his ass to everybody

  • I dont think the expression " Im going to fuck your brains out" was ever meant literally, so I think his powers will stay intact.

  • One question remains, what does he do now? does he has job?

  • they said he was a freelance tutor

  • You sound like the fucking cat that says " I can haz cheezberger?" XD LOLLLOLROFLBBQ!!1one!

    well.. *clears throat*, on a serious note though, his job could be absolutely anything, from a world renowned mathematician, to universal translator after he masters every fucking language on the fucking planet. Then hell make his own movie called languages on a plan where his punchline will be " I've had it with these mutha fuckin languages on this mutha fuckin plane!" instant classic.

  • brown hair dudes a douche

  • He might be a reptilian hybrid.

  • weed will destroy that ability

  • Yeah, or can he do it with his wife and kids being held hostage when one of his kids has already been shot dead in front of him and he has sore feet from wearing badly fitting shoes?

  • I wonder if he can calculate odds. Like a lakers vs Knicks game and give the odds of who wins and the odds of someone making so many points in a game.

    And I bet he is mean card player.

  • I don't think having his ability to compute so well gives him any clairvoyance of some sort to determine probability.

  • You're absolutely right. I'm glad someone said that. This comment column is very lucky that it had you to say a thing like that. Very lucky indeed. Just think where everyone's misled deductions could have lead them had you not been on hand to point out what you did. In many ways you have performed a feat of real moral importance with your comment, and I'm sure I'm not being unduly lauding to tell you that we all owe you our lives for what you have done here for us.

  • Your sarcasm is not required. Hopefully you didn't expend all your high level vocab words writing that waste.

  • He has beaten the house in Las Vegas at blackjack effortlessly. It was in the newspaper.

  • he has inspired me to study japanese in one month.

    I've just started and I'm doing great! :D

  • WOW. Christ all fucking mighty.

    You just blew my mind.

    That is all.

  • I think all of us can do it. we only use like 10% of our brain power

  • total myth.

    It is much more about how we use our brain than how much of our brain we use. Unfortunately most of us will never feel numbers or taste music, but some people have oddly miswired brains that gives them these skills. What you don't see in a film like this is how handicapped such people are in performing tasks that most of us consider trivial, like reading the emotion on the face of a friend.

  • In that case I hope you're an idiot savant too.

    Good luck with that.

  • im scared as shit.

  • Wish they'd make him learn more languages in a week.

  • like that south african clicking language.

  • That reminds me of another Extraordinary People episode where a black teenager without eyes can still see through echo-location, by clicking his tongue to hear his surroundings.. and i'm sure in public people think his on the cellphone with his African relatives down in Ethiopia.

  • i'd like daniel makes me my maths tests :P

  • than you'd most likely won't be able to pass his test

  • w/e floats your boat man

  • And he would use his abilities to learn how to be a black belt in karate just in a split second, block your kick, flip you on your ass and pummel your face in.

    :)

  • lol hahahahaha, i never thought of that!

  • ive gone over Icelandic several times & know about 7 words. Becoming fluent to me seems Impossible. its a very hard Language

  • they should have taken CAT scans of his brain when he was being taught Icelandic

  • That would be great to have during school.

  • holy shit!:)

  • WOOOOOOW

  • hey! thats the milwaukee art museum at the end!

  • OMG you're right

  • I want his mind, I'm very jealous

    I wish I could learn languages in a week.

    T~

  • I think that icelandic is very difficult to learn ... it's acctually more like the language of Færeyja ( don't know the english name for that country)

    But icelandic is prooven to be one of the most difficult languages to learn and I think this is amazing... and in only seven days! It he would have learned all this in more time than this wouldn't be as amzing as it is... but only seven days... and he speaks it quite well...

    ... well done I must say ... well done

  • It's MORE like..? Wouldn't that imply that Icelandic was first compared to another language? Did I miss something?

  • The English name for the country is Faroe Islands. It maybe sounds more like faeroer, but I think you cannot expect him to master the pronunciation in only seven days. For an Englishman it is already an achievement not to sound too English.

  • No the Faroe Islands is not the same as Iceland. The language is a bit simular, but a faroe islander can not understand Icelandic unless he speaks really slowly.

    The faroe islands are a bit closer to norway.

  • Yes, I know the Faroe Islands is not Iceland. But it is the English word for Faereyja (read three comments above). I was merely refering to the fact that although some might think his pronunciation sounds more like faroer, that it doesn't really have anything to do with his amazing capability of mastering the grammar so quickly.

  • Bastardized version of pi. LOL!!

  • LMAO!!!

  • That guy who pulled a trick on him seems like a total douche.

  • why? he's just testing him. a faker would be caught in the trick.

  • what will the world be like if we all can be like tammet?

  • Icelandic is still related to English tho... I'd like to see him learn Finnish or Chinese or Japanese or something unrelated to English.

  • haha... maybe I should have read the video description first... he's already learned Finnish! :)

  • Gimmick at the end, degraded urself buddy

  • The end where he speaks Icelandic...

    I'm FLOORED!

    He's so, incredibly lucky!

  • his mental is kind of sick..but sick until gone positif

  • I am insanely jealous of this man. If I had his abilities, I would teach myself languages monthly and travel.

  • word. same here.

  • Yes, I too would teach myself languages monthly and travel and also hit up every casino I encounter as I go along. LOL!

  • I wonder how he deals with hexadecimals etc...

  • Ok, so everyone in here is a polyglot.