印尼12歲神童被加拿大滑鐵盧大學錄取

Like other 12 year olds, Cendikiawan Diki Suryaatmadja is getting ready for a new school year.

和其他的12歲小孩一樣，森迪卡萬·迪基·舍亞特馬達正準備迎接新學期。

But unlike other 12 year olds, Diki will study physics and take additional classes in math, chemistry and economics at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

但和其他12歲小孩不一樣的是，迪基將在加拿大安大略省的滑鐵盧大學主修物理，輔修數學、化學和經濟學。

He is one of a growing number of youngsters enrolling in universities.

他是越來越壯大的少年大學生隊伍中的一員。

"I'm very excited to meet the new students and make new friends," said the pre-teen in an interview with CBC News.

這位青春期前的兒童在接受加拿大廣播公司採訪時表示：“要見到新同學、交到新朋友，我覺得非常興奮。”

Diki, who is from West Java, a province in Indonesia, will be living with his father in an apartment near the university.

迪基來自印度尼西亞西爪哇省，將和父親一起生活在學校旁邊的一間公寓裏。

The boy taught himself English in about six months by living in Singapore, reading English articles and watching subtitled English movies — especially comedies.

在住在新加坡的時候，他用六個月時間自學了英語，能夠讀英語文章、看英文字幕的電影--尤其是喜劇片。

"Little by little, through osmosis, you can learn a language," he said.

他表示：“通過耳濡目染，一點一點地，你就會學會一門語言。”