She did travel as a child, I understand that she was extremely difficult to rear because she refused to take medication or food consistently. I witnessed her absorbing Russian, it’s one thing to pick up a second or third Romance language, but Russian is pretty unique. I travelled with her for some time, learned about 1000 Norwegian words, I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent, but not near the level or variety of information acquisition she appeared to achieve so easily. She didn’t consider herself literate in any language but Norwegian, even though her Masters was from an American university. She was absolutely functional in all the languages she knew. Maybe this isn’t your niche, but don’t sell yourself short. Norwegian culture puts so much pressure on people to compete for post secondary education, she wasn’t accepted at any Norwegian school of journalism. As they say, C and D grades get degrees everywhere else in the world.