Foreign Accent Syndrome

Foreign Accent Syndrome

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/02/14/arizona-woman-woke-up-with-british-accent.hln

I regularly have students praying fervently that they will wake up one morning being fluent in a Biblical language, but I had never heard of ‘foreign language syndrome’ until now. A person has a stroke or the like, and wakes up with a different accent, in this case, a British accent. Weird, but somehow wonderful. What sayeth thou brain scientists??? BW3


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