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21-year-old speaks seven languages

September 27, 2022
Marketing Specialist, JN Money Services, Tashoni Ellis (left) presents National 15-20 Champion in the National Reading Competition 2021, Peter Haynes with a cash award for having the best book review in the category, during an awards ceremony held recently at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston.
Marketing Specialist, JN Money Services, Tashoni Ellis (left) presents National 15-20 Champion in the National Reading Competition 2021, Peter Haynes with a cash award for having the best book review in the category, during an awards ceremony held recently at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston.

Twenty-one-year old Peter Haynes speaks seven languages. The Portland native is proficient in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian and Japanese.

He said that some of the languages he speaks were introduced to him through books.

"I did Spanish for a third of high school, but the other languages, I taught myself from books, movies and tutorials on how to actually enunciate the words," he said in an interview with JIS News.

Haynes is a two-time National Reading Competition champion. In August, he was named the 15-20 National Champion for 2021, by the Jamaica Library Service, and the overall champion among all age groups in the annual contest. Before that, he was the 12-14 National Champion in 2015.

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