Foreign Accent Syndrome

[@1973cableguy]

am I missing something? I hear no accent.

[@LittleLulubee]

They sounds 100% normal, with no discernible accent.

@christianne1985 Sounds the same to me. Sounds like an older version of the same person talking, nothing else. Is this some kind of internet joke ..people pretending folks sound different when they sound exactly the same?

[@justkeepyappin]

@ Her accent sounds different in the before and after segment. I think there's an obvious change.

[@nullnulllnull]

Are you stupid? She definitely had a Scottish accent.

[@cjcozycorner]

So instead of a southern accent, they now have a Midwestern accent?

[@ScottyBeen1000]

Slight Southern Accent if any

[@Heidegaff]

A fate worse than death

[@jimpson117]

@@Heidegaff “sir, you hit your head really hard and now you may have brain trauma” “Aw shit” “Also you now sound like an Ohioan” “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

[@andyc9902]

Just move lol

[@TomGodson95]

​@@jimpson117 😂

[@GUNGLADIATOR77]

What foreign accent? They sound American

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

I'm English, and the Scottish accent is a foreign accent, even though same country.

[@GUNGLADIATOR77]

yea, but it doesnt even sound like an accent rather than just slurring

[@jcp100]

Ellenor Malik Scotland is not England you idiot

[@drunkweirdbeerghost]

Scotland and England are constituent parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And so is Wales by the way. What Ellenor meant by "the same country" is the "UK". ^^

[@nworbrelytthefirst]

Yeah. Not nearly as bad as the English woman with the broken English/Chinese accent.

[@skipalitevandango]

They sound like regular American accents to me?

[@karinhonaker4236]

I think maybe sometimes they have changes in the accent

[@newproduct8107]

They definitely do

[@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904]

Unless you know her, you can’t know it’s ‘different’ or changed.

[@joannam1284]

Everyone in this just sounds Midwestern.

[@jonathanstatham88]

Yeah, I agree. They sound midwestern. Completely normal I guess, if that's where they are from.

[@saec1997]

As an American im having a hard time hearing a different accent. They sound American. They have different American accents but still American.

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

It's called "foreign" because it's foreign to them and their normal accent. It doesn't mean you sound like someone from a different country - although that does happen too. If you listen closely to only the audio of that woman's video recording and then only the audio of her reading the same words now, you'll be able to hear the differences.

[@eliwhite5548]

Go to 2:25 in the video

[@vivi-cs2tm]

they still sound american, just with a different tone . idk what tf there worring about its not like they woke up with a whole diferent foreign accent 😒

[@eliwhite5548]

Go to 2:25. She sounds totally different.

[@Independent-xl3st]

I guess I'll be joining the chorus of those who can't discern any foreign accent in these two women. Their speech is slightly slurred, but they still sound 100% American to me. By the way, a lot of people who have had a stroke have slurred speech, and this - believe it or not - is not the worst that can happen after a stroke.

[@captainredclaw5864]

It doesn't mean that they have different accents then American it means there voice changed to a different accent not normal to how they spoke before. So they may still have an American accent but it's not there accent.

[@Itried20takennames]

See the many other examples of this here on YT…..they are much more striking. A UK woman who sounds Italian, a Texas woman who sounds Irish, a lifelong Australian who sounds American. It is a rare but real, and recognized, syndrome that I knew of from Neurology rotations…it pre-dated the Internet.

[@scarletroger1866]

Is this a wind up?? They go to bed sounding like an American then shock, horror, they wake up sounding like an American!! Fuck me that was underwhelming.

[@LittleLulubee]

Haha! Shocking, isn't it?

[@carriefawcett9990]

Lmaoooo!! True!

[@Markzuckisacuck]

Look up what normal ppl from Indiana sound like

[@garybarr2023]

Aye lass,it was an April fools 🤪

[@tiffshae1]

That do not have a foreign accent. They have a slightly different version of their own accent.

[@lindielee6322]

What accent? They'er speech may have slurred but it is not a discernible accent which is a true syndrome.

[@JSerrato289]

Lindie Lee *their

[@credendovides20]

Guys, "foreign" is not to be taken in the social sense of it, it doesn't mean "form another country". In the medical field it means "different than the usual/average". The accent that they have now is alien/external/strange/different than the one they had before. This is what it means. It just takes two minutes of Google to not state bs.

[@MsKipper42]

FAS means that it is different and has a distinct accent. I think you are taking the word foreign to literally. I had it and I sounded like a Jamaican person. It lasted about 6 months heavy but now when I get tired it starts. It never totally goes away. At first it sounded like someone else was talking so I would often stop because I didn't realize it was me. I had a stroke in 2008. it took about 48 hours before it started. So the nurses thought I was doing it on purpose. It took the speech pathologist to speak to them. I had others ask me "where are you from?"... "what part of the island are you from?" after a while I got tired of explaining so I just said "south". I'm from southern Indiana and had a country lilt to me voice.

[@nataliecampbell8762]

I am Jamaican, do you have a social media page that I can visit to follow you because this is fascinating

[@Ten_Thousand_Locusts]

"To me voice" it even happens in your writing. Hilarious

[@blondewriter99]

How interesting that you even thought it was someone else speaking. I hope you are doing well.

[@Robespierre-lI]

It could do with a different name.

[@ElizabethG1005]

I accept their feelings as fact however I struggle to see how the minuscule change in accents these women have such a great impact in their lives?

[@MezmerEyes1992]

Plot twist, they used to have an Australian Accent.

[@padmasalam5267]

Foolishness! I don't hear a foreign accent!!!!!

[@richy5913]

padma salam you never know they could live in uerope but have an American accent,due to foreign accent sydrome

[@padmasalam5267]

richishere They live in North East Indiana. Isn’t that a state in the USA?

[@mujtabaganie1905]

It's real I have it but it's not just the accent.. You can't even control the tone of your voice and it even comes differently than you think it would, it's really unexpected and sometimes you would kinda like stutter and speak fast even when you don't have these issues... Its just so weird

[@DolceVita]

what on earth is wrong with these women. These women have "I-dont-have-a-foreign-accent-but-think-I have-foreign-accent-syndrome" syndrome.... (face palm). And she's crying? FFS - Is this the Onion? This is from the Onion isnt it.

[@JJS563]

This is the least life altering disease I have ever heard of

[@shea829]

Why are you crying it's not decreasing life expectancy

[@Hehawtyragu]

shea oneill yeah what the actual fuck, how could you cry about this

[@emmagarcia9654]

because they feel like a different person and not how they were and they cant be themselves anymore it changes them. jesus did you even watch the video

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

@@Hehawtyragu Imagine you wake up one day suddenly unable to recognize the sound of your own voice (or everyone else unable to recognize it), or woke up to discover your face looked like someone else's instead of yours. Don't you think that would be hard to come to terms with? Especially if people constantly laughed and made fun of you for it and claimed you were "faking" the whole thing??

[@Hehawtyragu]

@@DavidStruveDesigns I think it’s pretty soft to be honest, you’d have to be pretty unsure of yourself to lose yourself because your voice has changed

[@plan4life]

@@Hehawtyragu Actually your accent is very much an integral part of your identity.

[@amandaconnors4045]

hi i have this condition and it gives me comfort to know there are people who can relate to what i face every day and how life changing it is thanks xxx

[@Whatislamsayz]

Amnada would you like to give interview in this way .this is my thesis topic for PhD on English language. plz reply

[@richardcjunior]

I think they are talking about a Hyundai Accent.

[@chantellesang2423]

not to be insensitive, but why do they have to cry over this shit?

[@aidanrocha2043]

Tom Segura brought me here

[@taylorschleusner]

keep those jeans high and tight, mommies!

[@tylenolthepainkillers101]

Same

[@mycontradiction303]

god please let me wake up speaking Japanese or Spanish

[@UnchainedMelodie92]

They don't wake up speaking a different language - they wake up with a different accent.

[@abbysheyba8421]

There was a case in my hometown where a woman woke from coma speaking Hindi when she's never any interactions with Indians

[@escapefr0mslender]

@@abbysheyba8421 So she just went रुको क्या?! मैं हिंदी में बात कर रहा हूँ ?! किसी की मदद! In the morning?

[@abbysheyba8421]

@@escapefr0mslender pretty much. People thought she was messing around but then they called this old Indian man and he could understand her perfectly

[@ShadNex]

@@abbysheyba8421 impossible

[@GoZuHaZa]

Oh yeah must be terrible for them.. i didnt even notice the broken accent

[@electricfeel9501]

+GoZuHaZa don't post ignorant comment. it's a real syndrome. Very few people have it. I took a linguist class and instructor briefly went over it.

[@ipunch-mcpevideosandmore2519]

electric feel then where tf is it??? I can't hear it ffs

[@emmagarcia9654]

@@ipunch-mcpevideosandmore2519 its literally there

[@dirtywashedupsparkle]

It should be noted that the syndrome doesn't mean they speak with a foreign accent, but that their brain to speech process is affected such that it changes their speech. It gets perceived as a foreign accent, hence the name, but it doesn't necessarily have to sound exactly like a clear foreign accent to be such.

[@vipexclusivegronk]

wtf where are the accents?

[@TheoWren]

it’s very subtle, but they sound a little more upper-midwestern than they did before. like they could be from minnesota or wisconsin.

[@DrewishAF]

As a Hoosier, I think this is hilarious. How the hell is that "devastating?" Is it because these people don't know what the word "devastating" means? Because that's far more like than actually being devastated over this...

[@spiderliliez]

Maybe they sound different from their American accents before the trauma, but I don't think their accent sound as if they're lacking or anything. They still sound American.. but maybe not as similar as they were used to be. I've seen other FAS cases that has drastic changes on their speeches, like sounding very Chinese while speaking English or any other foreign accent. Hope they can just be thankful they can still walk and talk and breathe freely like a normal person. Don't get me wrong, I still think it might have been traumatic for them.. but hope they can just get over it.

[@curtisberg3028]

Honestly I don’t really see what’s so bad about this if I had to choose a disorder it would definitely this one

[@jachariah4694]

It’s foreign in the most literal sense, as in just different. Kind of like how swallowing a hot wheels car can then be described as a “foreign object”

[@lindasgen]

I, too, have FAS. I got it over a year ago, not from a stroke. I have chronic akathisia from taking an antidepressant, and I also have a lot neurological issues from that. It's fun at times, but after so long I'm tired of repeating myself to my husband. He doesn't understand me as mine is more European and very thick. I wish both of you the best of luck. It's terrible when people write mean comments, but they're not doctors and it shows their ignorance. Hope you are both well.

[@Whatislamsayz]

Hi Linda it's alina from Pakistan. Foreign accent syndrome is my thesis topic for PhD can I interview you in this regard. I shall be very thankful to you

[@fearless6947]

Thanks for sharing. I agree, it's not funny at all. I'm sorry this happened to you

[@abbysheyba8421]

60 seconds had better examples of the condition. They sound fine to me

[@Koich14]

To all those folks saying they both sound like standard Americans: FAS is a misnamed condition. A person doesn't have to sound foreign to be diagnosed with it; it's just that a person's accent changes rather abruptly and involuntarily.

[@shoka_01]

It’s not misnamed. People just misunderstand the meaning of foreign. Its not a foreign country, it’s just foreign to the patient.

[@nylah8151]

I love how this "syndrome" is only for people who speak english...

[@chicho1045]

Actually no. This also happened to a woman in Colombia. But she sounds like a Russian speaking Spanish.

[@nylah8151]

Jeff Barrett Oh, Ok that's cool. I was pretty skeptical there.

[@SoLiTaRyBoNe]

Jeff Barrett where's the link?

[@DarTunwarm]

Ffs it's only an accent. It doesn't stop you doing anything you did before, not like you woke up and have bits of your body falling off, or a death sentence. Get over it already.

[@charlesoliver4606]

Here from Tom Segura

[@troybuttsoupbarns2765]

Same

[@CaptchaNeon]

I heard a mix of UK/American with the first one but I’m not sure about patient 2, I didn’t hear any accent with her that was foreign. Patient 1 could be heard in a foreign accent when she said “Properly” and “Diagnosis”

[@zachwbc]

They both sound completely normal

[@vinzetti22]

Anyone else here after hearing Tom segura?

[@notthatguy.937]

I don't know if I'm just being insensitive but I've seen people who have lost their vision or their legs be the same level of heartbroken or less. Their voices barely changed, not that that wouldn't be upsetting but they talk about it like it's changed everything and life will never be the same now that they speak slightly differently than before.

[@07tiffany78]

why is she even crying

[@pavelow67]

lol,word

[@katiobrien7854]

Dabg Dag that's what I was trying to figure out.

[@theSPUK901]

When you don’t feel or, I guess, sound yourself, it can be unnerving

[@victoriaalbastra6325]

@Ana Martins no, it wouldn't. Not a big deal. There are way worse situations go face in life than a frickin accent!

[@alejandrovasquez9668]

Victoria Albastra if I hit my head and start talking with sum yee haw accent then just shoot me

[@sambear5760]

I developed a Canadian/Minnesota accent, but only for certain words. Im an alchoholic. It just seems like its natural to speak certain words in that accent.

[@tigdineroyts8023]

I believe you died n came back a new person or someone from a past life tried to tap in your body

[@budget_3811]

@@tigdineroyts8023 Or they are an alcoholic with neurological damage from it, but who knows. But I am only a science believer and I don’t know much about the past life magic voodoo Harry Potter mythology so who could know.

[@ameera117]

It's the cause of a stroke that gives u a speech impediment that sounds like a foreign accent.

[@shocktrauma85]

If I ever got this, I'd like to walk around with a Nigerian accent. Being a white guy, it would confuse a hell of a lot of people. I don't mean to demean anyone suffering from this.

[@ivy5614]

I’m Australian but I sound like I’m from England and these people sound American to me

[@damianlopez7630]

I have developed an odd hybrid accent of British...Irish and American from New York. I speak fluent Spanish...I practice German...I Have Studied French and I Love Italian as it is close to Spanish in my Humble opinion. Hebrew and Russian are Also in my Field of interest. It must be my Asperger's Syndrome contributing Enormously to my Speech Changes. I don't know. Thanks to all for reading.

[@johnhancock2914]

THE DOCTOR ABSOLUTELY KNOWS ITS A REAL CONDITION, HE WAS SO RESPECTFUL OF IT

[@gracerobertson8772]

I noticed that too

[@cholmakai2625]

Wait hold up.... why did her accent go back to normal though in the end? 2:50 Does the condition come and go, or what?

[@kipchickensout]

"it's psychological, not neurological" also a minute later "it's a neurological condition,... "

[@bradchellingworth5973]

Took me a while to realise who had the condition, they all sound fine... Not sure I would be crying if my accent changed.

[@yessiree-bob4867]

Accent? I don't hear one

[@k.c.k9603]

Tom Segura sent me here.

[@tylenolthepainkillers101]

Damn. Tom segura was right. I'm not gonna say about what. But he was right

[@aykay7828]

I suffered a catastrophic massive stroke in 2008. I have a FAS. I has an Euro accent. I struggled with my grammar sentence structure in my brain. BUT. The Americans heard my European accent and they give me the chance to express myself, other using clumsy, looking-glass words. Verbs take place with the nouns. So on.

[@rexp1727]

this is rather dramatic...

[@pastelshades2860]

That woman does sound different than before but still sounds American because tons of people sound like that.

[@bryanthompson3]

Sounds like an American trying to organize sentencing in a foreign accent. I want to know if this has ever happened to anyone outside The United States

[@rrrrrfffff]

Someone else commented that it happened to someone in Columbia, who ended up having a Russian accent

[@cowsgomooatme4845]

The disorder is not a "foreign accent". The listener may decide they hear a foreign accent, it's actually a speech impediment, usually caused by injury to the brain. The syndrome is poorly named.

[@anthonymentalewicz5143]

That first lady went from "Indiana Midwest" to "upper peninsula Midwest".

[@oversteer_9339]

I think the reason why they seem a bit off and close to their original accent is because they are undergoing speech therapy to get back to their old accent

[@Itried20takennames]

It is not quite as clear in the women here, but in many cases the foreign accent is quite shocking. And some wonder if it’s just slightly slurred or different speech from the brain injury that we interpret as “an accent,” but many cases are so consistent with foreign accents that this is unlikely. It pre-dates the Internet, and while rare…is a real thing. I worked in Neurology and never saw this, but did encounter a patient with cortical blindness, where a stroke in the occipital lobe vision processing center makes people insist that they are blind, but they will walk around obstacles in their way, etc. If pressed to take a guess of what you are holding…they will guess right, while saying it was only a guess and they can’t see.

[@kipchickensout]

tbh she sounds very similar before and after, to someone outside of america it's not even noticeable

[@f1ftyfiftycl0wn]

They literally just sound American they're just slurring a little and talking at a different speed

[@gabriellehavens3140]

Queen Copyeecat it’s American but their accent went from a southern American accent to one you’d hear more on the Far East and far west of the country

[@ivy5614]

Well, I ain’t seeing to size 13 men’s Nikes, their lives aren’t THAT bad

[@emmagarcia9654]

cuz your not living their life thats why

[@ytsn_THE_OG]

The 1st lady sounds completely normal

[@stevieboudreau7048]

I’m always asked if I’m from another place than I am because of my accent but my accent doesn’t make me sound from anywhere

[@dragondynastywarrior506]

Maybe its a regional accent within America, that's why we can't really discern it. For example, somebody might be speaking in a "typical" American accent, and we wouldn't think anything is wrong, but it might be that they originally had like an Texan accent. Or maybe she had a typical "New Jersey" accent previously. who knows.

[@mysticalunicorn9869]

Perhaps the foreign accent that develops after the health crisis is from their previous life. They revert back to the speech from who they were in their mostly recent past life before they were reincarnated in this life.

[@danespacey]

I'm curious, maybe an american can answer, what foreign accent do these people have to you? Because they just sound like regular americans to eeeeeveryone else

[@MzCandyApple5683]

I agree it's not technically a "foreign" accent. But it is different. Americans have different accents in different regions. For example Louisiana & New Yorkings.

[@LittleLulubee]

*New Yorkers

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

The thing that baffles me the most (with very extreme cases)... is that: how do Caucasian people all of a sudden know how to speak with a Chinese, or thick Turkish, or South Indian accent if they haven't been exposed to it....??! It just doesn't make much sense. I'm willing to earn of course! An explanation that from a reputable source would be very welcome! But for me, since I've only been exposed to so much, if I personally were to suffered a brain injury - I could only begin speaking like Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Tom Cruise or Michael Jackson etc. since these are people who I've actually listened to over the years, and they're not a random region .... It just doesn't make sense: the Australia woman who speaks in a Chinese accent overnight. She MUST'VE been listening to many Chinese speakers over the years. The same goes for the English woman who speaks in an Irish accent now .... I really doubt it's possible to simply speak in that way without any point of reference. P.S. - I don't dislike any of these people, of course! If they're struggling with their "own" voice then that really is a shame! But it just seems very odd to me that can switch so accurately, and I'm a man of science and rational thought.

[@callofkys5572]

What the fuck?! They sound American still?! They don't sound any fucking different 😂 I'm dying at this

[@duckiib]

The condition doesny actually cause you to speak a in anoyher countries accent, it changes the sounds and the intonation and such and our brains associate these differences with another accent

[@NFtheend]

WHAT IS THE FOREIGN ACCENT? American? These don't qualify for the diagnoses.

[@devinporter777]

I have foreign accent syndrome but I have a Southern /British accent..im 33 and it happened soon as I got out of a phychiatric home..im from Los Angeles CA..its real I can't go back to the way i use to talk.. Sometime I have to lie and say I just moved to Los Angeles from Atlanta or Alabama so they won't think I'm lying!! It's scary

[@Whatislamsayz]

Helloo travis . Its alina Can you give me an interview on this topic I'm doing research for my PhD. Kindly reply

[@johnnyn188]

@@Whatislamsayz Have you researched Near Death Experiences and Quatum jumping? I believe they all have seem to have an NDE in common. They likely had an altered state of consciousness just as we can access during hypnosis and past life regression. Looks like there's a glitch in the neurology of the person after the brain trauma. Let me know if you'd like to discuss further leads for your PhD.

[@Lenin941FN]

Devastating? If i woke up with an Italian accent or german accent Id be thrilled

[@krystalg6145]

I'd love a German accent. Their accent is absolutely gorgeous sounding to me.

[@Scorch1028]

I've never heard of a non-Native English speaker developing an "American accent" after experiencing trauma to the brain. If this person was living in the U.S., it would be "unethical" to try to help them speak with the "stereotypical migrant accent" that they had before.

[@TheWorld_2099]

It's unbelievable how these people ruin their OWN lives because they can't separate how they sound with their own identity. I understand that you sound different to yourself (and the people who know you), but on a broader scale: who cares????? You're fine, just live your life and stop torturing yourself.

[@KingSneevil]

damn is it really that bad?

[@mediabear]

Ok…who in this video is suffering from this condition?

[@dietrevich]

I don't hear the foreign part of the accent unless you consider the Midwest a separate country??

[@ninjagoalie9999]

I'm confused... I've heard of FAS before... This is not it... Maybe they don't sound how they used to, but it's not a foreign accent so it shouldn't be labeled as such.

[@basharcali]

Anne does not sound foreign at all lol. Her voice changed but she still sounds like a normal person

[@skacoreification]

the one woman doesn't have an accent at all! my friend suggested she may have a Jersey accent and we can't hear it cuz we're from there. is that it?

[@itjustworks7386]

They sound normal? And even if you did sound different why would you be upset about it? My accent has changed 3 times in my life, it's depending on the people you are around. People need to be more emotionally strong. My uncle has lived in America for 10 years and his accent has completely changed you don't hear him crying

[@D4rkX5h4d0]

Title Correction: "Midwest women now sounds like slightly different Midwest women"

[@FavJam]

I kinda wish all racist people would get this. Just so they know what it feels when other people are racist to them. Does that make me a bad person?

[@Flameandfireclan]

Lol, I can’t be the only one who got here because of a comedian 😂😂

[@Pegasus4213]

Has anyone having FAS been regressed, to see if they've had another life where this accent is located? That could make sense of sorts.

[@dezman56ford]

I think there is a simple explanation for FAS, on you tube, there have been several instances of people who have recorded past life experiences, some many times over hundreds of years, sometimes in foreign countries, I could be wrong, but most FAS experiences don't happen when a person is awake, it usually occurr's after sleep, perhaps their brain has tapped into a PLE or past life experience whilst in its dream state and has not snapped back upon waking, hypnosis might be helpful in revealing cause and effect.

[@damianlopez7630]

The video is quite old. So I don't think I'll get any feedback. Thank You if I Do.

[@tapwater3345]

They went from American accent to United States citizen accent

[@CJ-wj6fd]

What is foreign accent they have??? They sound American to me!!

[@TedBackus]

their playing sad music, for what is easily one of the most hilarious 'disabilities' ever

[@duaneshair]

I’m confused. I came to legitimately learn about this syndrome which I don’t doubt exists. Yet I do not hear any accent. They sound 100% American.

[@Maranville]

It must be hard to suddenly have a north central Indiana accent instead of a northeastern Indiana accent, or whatever it is I'm supposed to be hearing.

[@chloekit4861]

This would happen to me suddenly for making fun of Boston accents