{"id":318067,"date":"2022-09-15T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=318067"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:39:39","slug":"self-taught-twins-get-scholarship-to-study-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/self-taught-twins-get-scholarship-to-study-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-taught twins get scholarship to study Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Twins Filipe and Lorenzo Barros<\/strong> started learning Arabic on their own when they were just two. The children have an above-average intelligence, with an IQ <\/strong>assessed at 150 for Lorenzo and 144 for Filipe. Four years later, their interest for the Arab culture, flags, geography and music only increases.<\/p>\n

The twins visited on Wednesday (14) the headquarters of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) in S\u00e3o Paulo. They were granted a scholarship for learning the language they fell in love with four years ago. The course will be taught by the Center for Arabic Language<\/strong> with the support of the ABCC<\/strong>. Classes will take place online twice a week.\u00a0Pictured above, Syria’s Yamam Saad gives the young students their first instructions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The twins and their family were welcomed at the Arab Brazilian Chamber<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The children were welcomed by ABCC president Osmar Chohfi and Cultural director Silvia Antibas. The twins were accompanied by their mother Aline Barros and grandmother Miriam Barros.<\/p>\n

On the occasion, the twins also received items like the comic book Khalil produced by the Federation of Muslim Associations in Brazil (FAMBRAS). It is the first comic book to talk about Islam in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Despite not having an Arab ancestry, the twins consume the culture from the region as if it was passed from generation to generation. They have playlists full of Arab artists, watch cartoons in Arabic on YouTube and asked for their mother to buy an art with the Arabic alphabet. \u201cI don\u2019t know where this interest came from, but when they were two, they started learning several languages, particularly English and Arabic, which they loved and caught our attention,\u201d their mother Aline Barros told ANBA. \u201cEven their birthday party this year they asked to be Arab-themed. We served baba ghanoush, sfihas, typical food,\u201d their grandmother said.<\/p>\n

Their intellectual giftedness<\/strong> also led them to attend a center focused on gifted children in S\u00e3o Paulo, where each children receives a unique drawing to represent them on the mural of the institution, and the Barros twins got the word \u201ctwins\u201d written in Arabic.<\/p>\n

Aline now seeks a school specialized in gifted children. \u201cI\u2019m seeking a school that can give them this attention since while other children their age are learning the alphabet, they already know how to write, so it may be hard,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thais Sousa\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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