from the greek for "many tongues," it means someone who speaks several languages, someone like timothy doner. >> [ speaking russian ] >> russian... >> [ speaking turkish ] >> ...turkish, japanese... >> [ speaks japanese ] [ speaks arabic ] >> ...arabic... >> [ speaks chinese ] >> ...chinese. those are just some of the languages tim can speak. >> i mean, it depends on your definition of "speak." but, i mean, the languages that i'm familiar with or i know to varying degrees is more than 20 at this point. >> wow. [ laughter ] that's crazy! like, i never even heard of that! 20 languages? one teen? that's a smart kid. >> wow. 20 languages? i barely know two. >> i think that's awesome. that's cool. like, i wish i knew 20 languages. >> and here's something even more amazing -- he started only three years ago. >> tim, i need help. >> at the time, tim was preparing for his bar mitzvah, the jewish coming-of-age ceremony. he had to learn the language of the bible, ancient hebrew. >> and around the time that i finished, i decided that i wanted to take a look at modern hebrew as a language, to actually l