I learned to read sooner than most other kids. English was the first language I started to learn besides my native language, and I started at around the age of four, by playing Leisure Suit Larry. Granted, the things I had to type in were along the lines of "open door", "talk to girl" and "drink whiskey", but at some point I had memorized all of the game's dialogue boxes, so I guess that was a big help, since I made my parents constantly explain to me what they all meant. I can't remember a single time I seriously tried to study English in school, anyway.

Leisure Suit Larry. Haha, that's one hell of a game for a four-year-old to play. (I didn't get a chance to play it until I was...seven, I think.)

Anyways I don't know about reading babies. My Mom tells me that I could "read" as soon as I learned how to string together sentences and understood what "reading" meant, but she noted that I only recognized symbols I'd been told the meaning of. Like I could tell what a logo of a familiar corporation said, but I'd hold fast to my opinion even if the letters were switched around, and God forbid if someone changed the font I'd be lost. But well, I suppose reading is just an extension of that ability to recognize symbols so it's not that implausible. My mom taught me to read in the two weeks before my first year at primary school anyway.

I could read and write many english and greek words when I was 2, only capitals though, I always seemed to dislike lwer-case letters for some reason. No-one really FORCED me to, I just saw them a lot around me and decided they were a fun thing to get into



boy was I fucking wrong