Rare syndrome makes Texas mom speak with foreign accent
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Houston-area mom Lisa Alamia developed a rare case of foreign accent syndrome after undergoing surgery, and now speaks with a British accent. KHOU's Larry Seward reports.
Honestly I lived in Scotland and England and her accent isn't as fake as you think.
yeet first
She’s faking.
yeet third
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Yeet sixth
Ive lived all over the UK. She sounds like someone who has lived in the midlands area (somewhere near Birmingham) who moved to South east England, maybe Essex and then moved somewhere else. For all those saying she doesnt sound British, she does. Very British, just not one particular accent. But just a mixture of Brummie and essex.
RSheen so Brit accents are like american southern accents? they're all kinda the same but have their own little twists depending on the regions?
CoorsCowboy92 Every city has a different accent in England , there isn't just one accent. She does sound British. Brummie and a bit of Yorkshire to me
Agreed
I still feel that there's a bit of an Australian accent mixed in there as well
Yeah there's a bit of australian somewhere in there.
Lmao someone knock me out so I can get an Australian accent.
Jhania Smith 😂 lol
Jhania Smith lmao 😸😹😹
Jhania Smith omg same 😂
Jhania Smith Wishing for a syndrome...
Jhania Smith MOOD
This happened to my coworker after a medical procedure. She was an all American girl before the surgery and now she speaks with a native Irish accent. I think it's pretty amazing to see and hear
I'm Irish and I bet it doesn't sound Irish
Luv. The internet exists, people know what an Irish accent sounds.@@lmtt123
Seriously?
@@lmtt123and you would lose smart guy
Proof that you have to be brain dead to understand Irish
She should be grateful. She's got a very nice accent
davecsaszarable its true, some people with foreign accent syndrome end up with a strong Chinese accent or something
JJP What’s wrong with chinese accent tho
@@WYGTYA It's ugly
@@WYGTYA it's harder to understand than an english accent
Could you guys imagine being a white male with Chinese foreign accent syndrome, life would be over.
One of her daughters seems to be picking up a bit of British accent from her Mum. Here we have a southern American with Spanish origins, with a British dialect. How fun!
Southern American and Spanish aren't quite the correct words for her.
@@williamjordan5554 oh, please tell us what's the correct words for her
It's more Australian than London
@@huskytail well, southern American is the American south, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, includes Texas, and such, South American could also be what she is hinting at, typically meaning south of the US border though geographically it would be from south America
She is Mexican, not Southern.
Actually thought this was The Onion when I read that title
Oh yeah yeah
I didn't think about that, but now I feel I should've. Lmao
Ethan Lewis me too😂
Same here.
Me too lol
I had a patient many years ago that developed a Jamaican accent after a stroke. She literally woke up with a very thick accent. And I'm from the deep South so we already have super thick country accents. Additionally this patient was 80 years old.
Hello beautiful how are you doing today?
@@genpaullacamera2233still remember this comment from 6 months ago? Down bad😭
BOMBOCLAAAAAAATTTTT!!!!
Lord have mercy!
Record her and post it. The world needs a laugh.
Im from the UK, and she sounds like she is speaking a London cockney accent, then changing to a northern Liverpool accent, then to a midlands accent, all in between words and during sentences. Very unique and incredible., I had no idea there was a speech disorder like this.
Well based upon from what you must kno sir but I'm an American from the East Coast in the state known as North Carolina and the East Coast accent is quite similar to how y'all be talkin except we are semi rhotic with people who are rhotic and with people who are non-rhotic as well so dat bein said if every American in Both the North and in the South of the East Coast would sound like we from London and the rest of southern England and or from the British Isles or whatnot.
@@dalzvert9206 I think I’m gonna have a stroke and develop FAS after trying to read that reply..
@@AyedRUclips is like. And yall like. Yaint 😭. Like🤡💀🥵
Wow
@@AyedRUclips Then you might talk like this person.
And then i was like “o lord”
The funny thing is that i saw your comment as she said it lol
@@strawberry_milk8451 SAME!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 that little girl was the best
Oh Lord Jesus it’s a FAHR
Here bc of Tom segura
There you are!
me too
Andrew Adams me too 😁
Saaame
The one he's talking about from his set is on here aswell
i wan a hear her speak spanish
Andreaaa if she can lol
...she has an Argentinian accent...
Tejanos can't even speak spanish 🤣
@@nemoniente5844 lol... yea definitely a Falklands islander.
@@MrColimon25 That's not always true! It's the same as saying Californians can't speak Spanish, but I'm Californian and speak fluent Spanish and I'm not even from LA lol. I'm from northern California. I can also read and write in Spanish.
Thought this was raini Rodriguez
Emma Mc LMAOOO
Emma Mc hmmmmm raini rodriguez
LMFAOOOOOOOOO
* SaLsA SalsA *
The skinniest legend
i’m british and she has a bummie accent...so yeah it is british
ria farah god its so annoying when people think that British sounds like southern accents.
@@ellbeveridge7256 As someone who come's from the South East...
I agree. XD
Oh' behave' ... (ha! I found my way to say it ,lol)
Fauna Bauna what?
for everyone saying her accent is fake, as someone who lives in England, it doesn’t sound like it. It’s a mix of a couple, but it’s still a British accent.
Imagine waking up to discover you're from the Midlands
As a Londoner, I can hear how some words like “lying” do sound fairly American, but the most dominant accent is definitely a Brummie accent (Birmingham) but it sound like its mixed with Essex a little bit which I find really interesting, but to all of the people saying “she doesn’t sound British” she definitely does, she just doesn’t sound like a Londoner which is often mistakenly believed to be the only British accent
Am I the only one who loves the way she speaks? ♥️
Same. Most American accents sound cringe, including mine
Same. I think British accents are more lovely then Americans will ever be
Yes
Nah, I wish she had her original accent back, poor woman.
Everyone in this thread sucks except me.
I'm from the Midlands UK and trust me, she sounds like us around here lol 😂👍🇬🇧
Fascinating. Serious question... How do the Brits perceive the Midlands accent? Is it considered to be more on the refined side or is it considered more blue collar or agricultural?
Regardless if it's British or Australian it's wonderful! Why anyone would have a problem with it is beyond me. Lisa, it sounds lovely!
😭😭😭😭im glad that people like are open minded
Past life pushing in.
Lsolarflare back to Sussex for her.. with that accent, dear lord!!
Oooh i didnt think about that..
Woke
Damn u right
Rubbish m8
When I drink tequila I get a Spanish accent and when I smoke de ganja mi getta wicked yardee accent.
Tequila isn't spanish
tequila is mexican, but they speak the language of spanish..
Hahahaha😂😂😂 same
Cris LeRoi I'm laughing- haven't heard some use word Yardee since I left NYC...
Lmao
I also have foreign accent syndrome. I am Vietnamese but speaks with a British accent. I have had brain surgeries like three or four times in the past and it's effecting my accent. People who suffer from this knows that this is natural, and they can't really change their accent after that. Having foreign accent syndrome isn't a big deal and it's not really effecting your health, but if you don't get a treatment you might get brain damage.
We deserve a video
How do you not know if it was 3 or 4 lol
"it's not really effecting your health but you might get brain damage" what a major contradiction
Omg it's pathetic to want this kind of attention
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As a brit I find her accent interesting, its like a mixture between a Birmingham accent and a southern London/essex accent.
Who tf is tom segura
Nada Mustafa lmao we got the same pfp
@@karinrezk1114 ughhh our one braincell snapped
Idk I'm so confused
LMAO RIGHT
He’s a comedian.
thanks Tom Segura
bulavo same 😂😂😂
Yes! :D
😂😂😂😂
facts!
Hahahaha that's what brought me here too!
Sounds like a lower-class Essex accent to my old English ears.
People in England have different accents based on how much money they make? I've never heard anything like this before! Unbelievable!
alice mi it's true dumbass. Go into an upper class area and talk to a group of people then go into a lower class area.
ClocStudios9 The wealthiest people I know are farmers and ranchers. He's saying people of varying incomes in Britain speak with different accents. Maybe in the case of your two friends, the one in the city happens to be wealthier than the one on the farm but I would say normally farmers are wealthier than the majority of the population that lives in metro areas.
ClocStudios9 farmers feed us you shouldn’t call them lower class
John Robert Brown I agree
Then theres the British woman who suddenly got an asian accent.
InertiaEffect She’s lucky she didn’t get that one, I feel like the British woman going to get accused of being racist one day.
+kieran peterson, unfortunately it’s like that in Britain. I completely agree with what you said .
Jajja!! I thought you were joking at first but I looked it up and yes, you were right. It is true. 😅
Her heart says "tahmahlehs", but her mouth says "tuhmolleys".
Can relate.
😂 Underappreciated comment.
It's so weird to an Irish person she sounds like she's wavering between a Liverpudlian/Midlands and even at some parts Australian accent 😂
Perhaps, that's where she lived before. ruclips.net/video/HzsxFtlNq7Q/видео.html
Nooo she does not sound like a scouser. Thats comin from someone thats lived in Liverpool for 13 years 😩
It's Birmingham, with a hint of Essex I would say.
szlachta
I always think the same!
@@esther4482same a few people have said Liverpool but as a scouser I don't hear it at all. Or Australian.
I hear Brummie, then Essex and then Southern American towards the end.
She sounds like a Latina immigrant with a Brummie accent. I don't think that she sounds 100% British.
I lived in Essex, England for 10 years before moving to Texas where I am now, and gosh she does sound like someone from Essex!
tom segura brought me here
Exactly lol
same haha
YES
w wyborn He brought me here as well
I want her to say "bloody hell" 😂😂
She sounds like she's from Birmingham in the UK😂
I know right???? But honestly, I LOVE the Brummie accent, mainly from watching a lot of peaky blinders...
@@flannerymonaghan-morris1317 my nan was born there so I have some connections haha it's a great accent
Tom Segura for president.
BIKES! now I'm gonna go eat In n' out in my car.
Lol fat lazy nobody with a dumb wife for pres? Pfffft. Naw.
There was a girl in my kindergarden class that had a british accent but it was a speech impediment. I asked her once why she talked that way and she said she didn't know... I knew her all through out elementary school and it did get better but she still had a british accent the last I saw her. I'm from North Carolina and everyone I knew including her family had a southern accent except for her. I actually thought it was cool because she sounded foreign and smart. I never saw her again since I moved but I still think about it sometimes, wondering if she still has that accent...
Hello beautiful how are you doing today?
When you drink tea for the first time
Empty lmao I'm dying
lmaooooooooo
😂
Empty 😂😂😂
반짝 반짝 Yes, but tea is more often than not seen as European drink.
She's not faking it. Look at her expression when her daughter talks about it.. that's the same look my mom gave me when I was born. I thought it was a joke, but she knew it wasn't. 0:29
Javi you remember a look your mom gave you when you were born? Your mom thought you were a joke? What.
I hear the Texas-Hispanic accident underneath. But that British is loud and clear too
I am English and live in England and she sounds exactly like she’s from Birmingham
I would embrace that,
God wanted to give her a redo and out of all the places her new accent could have landed, wouldn’t you know it... Birmingham for Christ sake. I got nothing wrong with the midlands I am from the north (Liverpool) we have some bad accents ourselves , I’ve been told my scouse was the unholiest of them all but no a brummie......
Magic Scouse?
She says she's Hispanic so I wonder if she speaks Spanish and how it sounds with a British accent!
Anel Perez Good question!
Imagine she just starts talking like a Spaniard, that'd be the best
man i'd pay for that answer.. she's definitely Hispanic, if she's Mexican-American, how would her family down south react if she were to pay them a visit with that posh accent .. lol
Ohla!
@@retro9173 it's actually not a posh accent but more of a street British accent
Omg... This is me, i fell in the pool in 1997 i was in my late teens and hit my head and i never thought of anything about it cos i felt fine the next day... But a month later i sounded completely British and i never understood why and people thought i was faking, yes i travel and yes i grew up in an English speaking country but with different accent... I've been in America fir 16yrs and still have the British accent. I just learnt to live with... Knowing this is real its such a relief.
you should check out the 60 minutes video. Some Doctor has a test ,a mri kinda.
I'm here because I cannot comment on 60 Minutes channel where I first watched the Foreign Accent syndrome. If you could hear the others who have the same condition (even in this woman), it is clear that they have troubled speech. Some say it was even hard to choose words at the beginning, and had to learn how to communicate effectively again. I had to comment because I experience troubled speech every after a manic episode. I have bipolar disorder. And due to heavy medication to keep me out of psychosis, I would normally have to relearn how to speak and communicate normally again for months. The first time I heard them speak, I knew exactly that this is not some change of accent, this is learning how to speak all over again because of damage in the brain or medications. I know what they are going through...and it's scary. No matter what you achieved in life, you'll feel small and incompetent once you have to relearn how to do basic tasks such as communicating.
0:33 the way she says "oh lord" kills me 😂😂
does she have tea time now?
What I'm really curious about is how the brain got it to sound like a perfect legitimate accent. Was it just storing all this information this whole time of how people with this accent speak, or is it some kind of defect that forced her jaw/mouth to move a certain way which makes her sound like this?
Old comment, but what if we store nearly everything we ever see or hear, but can only access like 1% of it. I guess kind of like that stupid Bradley Cooper movie Limitless.
Same, does my brain know how to imitate it perfectly from listening or is it because the muscles are working differently and just align with another accent? I think the first one because I think the second would create a hybrid accent tbh.
I`m English she sounds specifically an accent from the midlands UK its called a Brumy accent so someone from Birmingham UK.
Her accent is cute, it fits her 😍😍
Some words she says she sounds like she’s from Birmingham, some from Essex, some from Leicester etc
I Think Its Cute. I Love Her Accent.
Imagine she ended up getting a thick NY accent
Or a North Carolina accent
The human brain is amazing. It rewired itself to change her speech patterns. Just amazing.
I'm from England and this doesn't sound like a British accent. Although there are multiple British accents, none of them sound like this. The closest I can think of is Birmingham, but it's a hybrid of this with some definite Aussie words and American also.
You're nuts
This is so interesting, I want to learn more about this.
Priyanka Chopra suffers from this syndrome.
This has happened to my old college teacher who was Irish. He broke his jaw in a cycling incident and he had an Indian accent for 8 months until he managed to correct it lol. 😂😭
Yeah people are so dumb saying that your voice can't change like wtf
👺💢
That's a very good example that you gave why a person voice could change
Also some people with strokes can change their voice when they talk
I have a speech impediment and I noticed I sound different not like a accent but with a lisp sound
It pisses me off
I mean, like god common sense.
Even if you're going through puberty your voice is changing constantly form a child to a adult so wtf
It’s so weird how it’s like a mish mash of many different accents in one
It’s more like a “factory-reset english” ...
Imagine Truml wakes up with Latino accent
Who's Truml?
momentum lmaooo
Benedick's Cumberbitch xd
I can still definitely hear a Texan accent just mixed with a british one
Tbh her voice is amazing 😉 I want to experience having a British voice 🤩
Imagine waking up from dental anesthesia with a Russian or German accent
This actually could happen; remember when Lindsay Lohan got punched and her accent fell off? lmfao
I have been diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome in which I have terribly been living with for 4 years now. I have had several diagnosis. I tripped and fell at work not sure if I hit my head but I landed hard and fractured my spine and tore my abdominal laterally on both sides. My work comp doctor continued to have me work and also attend physical therapy twice a week. After a electric shock treatment that burnt my insides I went home and experienced my first seizure and continued to have seizure while with my doctor or physical therapist. I went to a second emergency room who stated I had been postotic or Todd's parylis far to long and stated the left side were I believe I hit my head on that side my soft palate is not moving symmetrically which could represent a cranial nerve defect. My employer and there insurer did not report my injuries to workers compensation. I had to. Soft palaf not moving symmetrically to the left. Acute sensory defect secondary to occult stroke. The medical finding for foreign accent syndrome. This is nor a joke, hoax or a mislead but it is the truth to the foreign accent finding.
Yeah I have Foreign Accent Syndrome as well. I’ve had it since 2016
I'm very sorry to hear of your unfortunate situations. May I ask which accents you've been identified as now speaking with?
Yeah! I have been having mine since 2016. And people think I'm from some third world country. Mine switch between Haitian or Spanish. I stay in the house do to the unwanted attention I get when i go to stores and speak with several people around because the color of my skin. When you tell people it came from a accident they say. Well atleast you gained a cool voice. 🤔🙇♂️
This happened to my grandma after she had a stroke. She was from Tennessee but after the stroke she had this random Italian accent.
As a British person, her accent sounds weird. It's like a weird mix between the Brummie (Birmingham), Essex and Cockney (East London) accents. It could be that these accents are the most well known British accents and she subconciously picked them up, strange though.
As a Brit born and bred she absolutely sounds British to me. I wouldn’t question it if I met her 🤷🏻♀️
@Rick Smith well if it’s fake it’s very accurate 🙂
I don't know why this was in my recommended but I'm glad I watched it
Disgraceful Tom Segura brought me here
who else watching this because of the tom segura special?
Steve Chamberland yup
here.
Steve Chamberland Who is Tom Segura??
I'm English and she sounds like she's from flippin' Birmingham. How unfortunate, out of all the accents Birmingham. 😂
If you think about it she is now speaking without accent, as opposed to the american accent in which the people around her speak
This happened to our pastor's aunt after her stroke more than 20 years ago. She's from the inner city in the Midwest but to this day, she speaks with a heavy Jamaican accent. It's adorable. 🤗
I actually knew a kid like that, he had a British accent even though he had never been to England, and wasn't even British.
Donna Ortega A Shepherd boy in a remote Himalayan area of India learnt English on his own (with American accent) only by listening to VOA Voice of America broadcasts the only radio station available at that higher altitude
@@maheshm5463 , he didn't seem like the type to listen to that stuff though.
@@Pietothesky , that's so weird. The kid I knew always said he didn't have an accent, guess he never noticed. But then again, no one notices if theu have an accent.
In another video about this subject one of the scientist said:
“It just an accident of chance that what happened to this woman’s speech overlaps with a known accent.”
And I wonder if it is even possible that people who are hearing somebody speak with this syndroom, unconsciously fitting a known accent to her way of speaking.
Yeah, one was saying it's a speech disorder, that to the listener, sounds like an accent. He gave this as an example. Say the speech disorder has you adding an "a"at the end of every word "heya youa ova thera." The brain of the listener, subconsciously says, hey, that sounds kinda Italian, which further legitimizes the accent in the listeners mind.
I wonder if this has to do with past life experiences. Especially since most of these cases occur after near death, coma, or seizures.
Hello beautiful how are you doing today?
This is a blessing in disguise 😅
I'm British and though she doesn't have one single British accent, I could definitely believe she is British and has just moved around between a few areas. Mainly Birmingham, but there are some south-east bits and West Country bits in there too. The only thing was when she said 'kidding' - yes some British accents drop the T's in words but no-one drops D's.
I wouldn't to say she doesn't have any British accent. I can hear a bit of West Midlands coming through.
@@nathanmerritt1581I think they mean one singular accent, as in there are a few British accents thrown in there.
Call me a cynic, but I can't help thinking, and with all respect, that if most 'sufferers' were offered a million notes, by an eccentric, yet curious billionaire, to speak only two sentences in their original accent, and that's all the diagnosed one had to do, while being recorded, you might just find that 'the disorder' might suddenly become a lot rarer than previously thought. As a child of about 11, I picked up the London Cockney accent (born nowhere near there) and spoke it for a couple of weeks non stop, as it felt natural to do then. I can't remember the moment, but all of a sudden, one morning, I decided just to speak as I normally do. I still have the ability to change my accent completely into one of many, incorporating the natural idioms and speech errors, which would be typical for such an accent too, and then change it back whenever I like. I could speak for years on end in any one of those I can do, should I wish; However, it strikes me, that the fact that such a person remains in control, is all that separates someone with an unusual gift for replicating different accents convincingly, from someone who has such a medical syndrome as above. Or... is it? Hmmm
Interesting outake, i am wondering where in the brain this disorder is coming from, and would it still be formed in the same english accent if she hasnt heard a english person speak and her subconcious somehow picked it up
She pronounced the word "kidding" in a more neutral English and then switched back. Dunno what to make of it.
@@User-435ggrestyeah the first 'kitten' sounded American and then the kid-ding sounded British. The 'gonna think I'm lying' didn't sound British at all. It's mad.
Plus the way she says 'get' and the sentence about being hood sounds American too, to me.
I'm not here from Tom segura
You and me
Who the heck is Tom Segura?
She needs to take an ancestry DNA test and if she sees she's actually part English that'd be hilarious.
This is a uniquely interesting case of FAS...Most of these cases are native English speakers who develop "foreign" accents- ie French, Russian, Chinese, etc, which are really just speech impaired versions of English as it tends to be spoken by people who never grew up speaking it. This woman on the other hand acquired another dialect of her actual native language, English. You can't pinpoint where in Russia or France the other FAS patients' accents were from, but accent experts from the UK might be able to identify the exact neighborhood where this woman's accent originated.
Yes, it originated from the rear of her end.
I want to believe she’s not lying but there’s no way
Tom Segura anybody??
✋😂
Davide fregoli fagioli !!! Haha green beans
Haha yup
Which Netflix episode?
OMG she’s got a mix between a Birmingham or Manchester accent 😂😂 gutted!
thank you tom segura
That’s honestly dope
im british and she actually sounds like shes not faking it
Tom Segura brought me here...wasssup!!
Erik Brown BIKES!!
Knew a colleague who did this on purpose for 3 solid years. When I met them, they already had a British accent. He refused to drop it even though everyone knew he was from Texas. Years later he admitted doing it to stand out more.
I KNOW A GUY LIKE THIS IN TEXAS....LMFAO....HOUSTON
I want to have a accent syndrome I want a England accent it sounds cool
I’m just here because of Tom segura😂
"My daughter laugbs at the way I say tamales."
*background giggles*
XD
When I wear jewelry I speak Arabic.
JdyzhH Hkjd Sharmuta! It’s what you are sug.
@@solidsnakemgs2180 I won't forgive you in front of God.
The Sensational One i learned this word when I visited a middle easter country in the summer..... you are so rude!!!
@@Septembre1 I agree. This chump is rude.
Who is here because of Tom Segura’s Netflix skit...
its kind of a mix with brummie and australian
No not Australian. it's more of a Brummie Essex mixture.
umms..."bla bla bla.. uhm yeh" the uhm is an English thing no disease can give you you gotta learn and use it... also her speech pauses and sound exaggeration sounds like she's been practicing this accent :/ ... the doctor said she's now using her tongue differently so then why does she speak British phrases?
That's a proper Brummy accent that is. She sounds like she comes from Birmingham, UK. 😮