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Foreign Language Skills Improved After A Migraine Attack!
Sarah Colwill, a 35 year-old resident from Plymouth was shocked to realise her Devon accent change into Chinese. She is suffering with a rare kind of sporadic hemiplegic migraine, which will cause the blood vessels in the brain to expand.
“I knew I sounded different but didn"t know how much. The ambulance crew said I sounded Chinese. I have never even been to China. At first it was quite funny but my voice is annoying me now," says Colwell about the incident.
Colwill, who is an IT project coordinator, thinks that her migraine attacks may have sparked off the Foreign Accent Syndrome. This is a rare phenomenon generally occurs as a side effect of brain injuries or stroke.
John Coleman, professor from Oxford University thinks this as an 'extremely diverse' case.
“I don"t know what it is going to turn into. It"s going to be quite different and people are going to react a bit strangely to it," says Colwill rabout her accent, going for the change.
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