Tuesday 14 February 2012

Foreign accent syndrome

    Do you think you can speak English in another country's accent if your first language is English? You might speak English in other accent. But here are some people who don't want to speak foreign accent and there is no choice.

    It is a 'Foreign accent syndrome'. When you get this syndrome, you couldn't stop foreign accent though you don't want. It's very rare syndrome. The reason why people get this syndrome is to damage he/her's brain that related with language. Because they can't pronunciate their first language accurately, it sounds like foreign accent. 60 people in the world have this syndrome.
    It recorded in 1941 Norway for the first time. A young woman was injured by air attack in the middle of the war. After recovery, her accent changed like German. So everyone hated her. People thought that she was mimic a Norwegian .
   
    Sometimes we use foreign accent for fun. But if I'm in the situation like that, it will be hard time for me.
And there is a vidoe about a woman speak Chinese accent. How do you think? It sounds like Chinese or not??

4 comments:

  1. It could be hard .....I got to my accent and it's not easy . But should be harder because a illness !

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  2. I have never heared that. It is interesting! :)

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