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UK-Woman Loses Voice For Two Months, Now Speaks With Four Foreign Accents

A 31-year-old British woman Emily Egan had her life altered dramatically in January after sustaining from a mysterious condition that left her unable to speak for two months but now speaks with four different accents.

According to the Daily Mail, Doctors were bewildered after innumerable tests failed to reveal why Egan lost the ability to speak in January.

After two months of communicating through an app that read her texts in a computerised voice, Emily’s own voice came back but sounded nothing like before. Instead, she spoke with different accents, ranging from Polish to Russian, French or Italian.

 She was eventually diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare disorder caused by brain damage. The Essex-born woman said she was left exhausted after weeks of confusion and slurred speech.

Medics initially suspected a stroke, but it was ruled out and they believe her speech disorder was caused by brain damage – but don’t yet know what caused it, reported the news outlet.

Emily said: ‘This whole experience has been exhausting and totally overwhelming”.

‘It’s not just my accent that has changed – I don’t speak or think in the same way as before this, and I can’t construct sentences like I used to.’ I write differently now, my whole vocabulary has changed, and my English has gotten worse despite living in the UK all of my life, adds Egan.

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