Liverpool resident Rose Griffiths, after suffering a stroke, began to speak with a Russian accent The Daily Mirror reports.
It is noted that the 69-year-old Griffiths suffered a stroke back in 2014, after which she stopped feeling the entire right side of her body, and also lost the ability to speak, read and write. Doctors predicted that a woman would never be able to return to a full life.
However, Griffiths decided to work on herself and soon learned to write with her left hand. She later regained her speech, but noticed that she had acquired a Russian accent.
According to experts, this is the foreign accent syndrome - a rare disease that is the result of a traumatic brain injury or stroke. A person suffering from such a disease intones words like a foreigner, pronounces sounds that are not characteristic of his native language.
So, in May 2007, a woman fell down the stairs and hit her head hard, after which her American accent was replaced by a typical Russian accent.
For the first time, the syndrome of a foreign accent was described at the beginning of the 20th century by the French neurologist Pierre Marie.