Cases of foreign accent syndrome

This disease causes patients to speak their mother tongue with a foreign accent. For example, an American may speak with a French accent. It sounds like an April Fool's joke, but more than 20 patients have been found around the world.

The first recorded case of foreign accent syndrome appeared in Norway 194 1. After a girl suffered brain damage in an air raid. After an obvious recovery process, she left the root of her speech with a serious German accent, which was rejected by her Norwegian compatriots.

According to a recent report by the BBC, an Englishman who has never been abroad speaks with an Italian accent after a minor stroke.

It is also reported that Tiffany Roberts, who was born and raised in Indiana, began to speak British English after a stroke: When I said I was born in Indiana, Americans accused me of lying, and they would ask,' Why do you say that? "Where are you from in England?" Of course, I insist that I am not English.

According to British media reports, ten years after migraine, a British woman spoke with a China accent. The doctor diagnosed him with "foreign accent syndrome".

Sarah Cowell, 35, was born in Germany and lived in Plymouth, southeast England for many years. After the migraine attack on March 20th, she began to speak with China accent.

"I/Kloc-moved to Plymouth at the age of 0/8, and now I speak the local dialect. But after the last migraine, the nurse who came to take me to the hospital said that I was definitely speaking Chinese, "Sarah said." "

"Since my accent changed, my past phone calls have always been mistaken for' prank calls' by my friends and have been hung up. Now my voice is getting louder and louder. But I have never been to China. " Sarah is taking a speech therapy course, hoping to restore Devon accent as soon as possible. She explained that although it was interesting to speak "Chinese" at first, it became more and more frustrating later. She wants to get her original accent back.