Is it possible to wake up and know a new language?

While incredibly rare, cases like Reuben’s – where someone wakes up speaking a language they didn’t think they knew – are not unheard of. There was, for example, this man who spoke Welsh after a stroke despite not having been to Wales for 70 years.

How quickly can you become fluent in a language?

According to FSI research, it takes around 480 hours of practice to reach basic fluency in all Group 1 languages.

Can a stroke cause you to speak a different language?

When people only speak a foreign language after a stroke, it is a form of so-called bilingual aphasia. When they speak with a seemingly foreign accent, it is called Foreign Accent Syndrome. A stroke occurs when a certain region of the brain is no longer supplied with blood.

Why do I wake up speaking a different language?

Foreign accent syndrome is a medical condition in which patients develop speech patterns that are perceived as a foreign accent that is different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent’s place of origin.

Why do some people sound like they’re fluent in another language?

This can also lead to people sounding like they’re fluent when they speak another language, even if they’re making lots of mistakes. And this might be part of what’s going on when people wake up from a head injury being ‘fluent’ in another language, as in the case of Rueben Nsemoh.

Can you wake up from a head injury speaking a second language?

For now, these are just hypotheses, and there have still been no peer-reviewed case studies of people waking up from a head injury speaking a second language. But hopefully with more research we might finally begin to understand how our brains rewire themselves following injury, sometimes to give us remarkable new abilities.

Is it possible to have a foreign accent without having it?

Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition in which patients develop speech patterns that are are perceived as a foreign accent that is, different from their native accent, without having acquired it in Yes. That is possible. There was this Aussie man who was in comma and woke up being able to speak Mandarin (but forgot his English).

Can a brain injury improve a person’s ability to speak German?

Despite an unconfirmed news report in 2010 that a Croatian speaker has gained the ability to speak fluent German after emergence from a coma, there has been no verified case where a patient’s foreign language skills have improved after a brain injury.