Can You Wake Up Fluent in a Foreign Language?
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - “I sounded like I was from Transylvania.”
1:13 - Aussie Wakes up Chinese
2:07 - The Kid from Georgia
2:44 - French Matthew McConaughey
3:51 - Brand New Chinese Accent
7:03 - Is It All Lies?
8:23 - The Science
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The surest way to wake up fluent in a second language is to go to sleep fluent in a second language.
YES.
It worked for me. I woke up fluent in 3 languages. (To clarify - going to sleep fluent in them worked for me.)
So funny! 🤣
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I’m glad you turned that around with a bit of science towards the end. So many of these types of stories are complete nonsense or people faking it.
Why would anyone fake it? You have only to see the distress in some of these clips to realise that no brief "fame" would be worth it. There's not much chance a faker would be able to keep it up 100% of the time, with everyone in their life - at work or school, with friends, family, partner...
@@londongael414 Yeah I get that, but a lot of those were done in the typical overdramatized American documentary style. It became hard to take these shows seriously over the years - I was skeptical at first too until I heard the science.
@@UsernameUsername0000 It is *so* much more interesting when you hear about the science, isn't it? Less of a weird mystery, and more of a hopeful story about how hard our brains work for us, and how resilient they are!
During my doctoral studies, I had continually wanted to experiment using hypnosis to see if a second language can be retrieved from someone who had studied one, but had forgotten it. I never did find a hypnotherapist willing to work with me on this.
Unfortunately I’m pretty sure those languages are usually pruned. Would be awesome if possible though.
@ImagineHeroism I doubt that learned languages can be truly pruned out. People who have totally forgotten a language they once knew, say, in childhood, will mostly learn it faster when they start studying it later in life.
My high functioning autistic son learned first Finnish from me and English from his father. We then moved to Finland for 5 years and I switched to speaking only English at home, but he continued learning Finnish at childcare and at first year at school. Children he spoke with in communal garden could speak English and Finnish.
When we moved back to a small town in England all the children were bullied as foreigners as they quickly rejected Finnish, even refused to understand me. My autistic son, then 7, even went into a rage, so I gave up a losing battle. By the time they finished school none of them could speak Finnish.
But two of the youngest children, nearing their 30' got interested in learning Finnish because of potential job prospects: they both learned Finnish independently watching UA-cam and reading websites explaining the grammar- only very rarely would my autistic one (who lived with me) ask me about some word or confirmation that he understood a simple sentence.but both children learned remarkably well - even my autistic son, who struggled with French and German which areare related. Finnish gramnar is much more complicated)
I've been trying to learn Italian for 2 years, I would give anything to wake up and be able to speak it fluently...maybe I just need to fall on my head lol
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I had a patient come to my ER in the USA for this! She woke up with a "Russian" accent. Her family had to help convince the staff that that wasn't her normal speech.
Yes you can. I lived in London for 3 years. That did the trick. Woke up fluent in Hindi.
I visited London a few months ago and I thought about it while having a hard time understanding many of the local workers... One needs to spend a few months in Pakistan in order to get by in London.
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That's really cool, thanks!
What's interesting about Ben's story (Australian who spoke Chinese) is that his nurse was Chinese, as she could translate his writings to the parents. Perhaps, when he was unconscious, the nurse spoke or used Chinese around him. I wouldn't be surprised if other nurses were Chinese, too - I live in Australia, we are a very multicultural country! The Sydneysider who adopted a Central European / Balkan accent may have prior familarity with say, the Croatian diaspora (many are in my city, Sydney). Likewise, the football player from Georgia would've had familarity with Spanglish and Spanish. Interestingly, these examples came from Anglophone countries where languages can blend together. I've had dentists who speak English to me, but when talking to each other, go to Chinese. This also explains why the languages / accents adopted, share geographic or linguistic familarity with English, as notable with the one who spoke in a Norman accent.
I've never studied science past year 10. But I do think I'm onto something, here. Having languages spoken to you does influence your brain!
I wouldn't call Chinese linguistic or geographic familiarity. It's pretty far from Australia. But if you mean that he studied Chinese before the event and probably consumed a lot more Chinese media, say, Chinese films dubbed in English, then that makes sense.
@@oakstrong1That's true, but the average Australian (at least in Sydney and Melbourne) are exposed, quite frequently, to the Chinese language. I'm wondering if this influenced his eventual brain condition.
@@oakstrong1 Mandarin (2.7%) is the second most spoken language in Australia after English. But as you suggest he may have absorbed more Mandarin then he was aware of.
@@continental_drift , @snowlyfictions You are both making the point of Chinese being spoken frequently in Australia, in which case the language could indeed be called familiar to him.
I met someone that this had happened to. Grew up speaking American English, had some kind of brain injury (this was over ten years ago so I don't remember the exact story or nature of the injury) but after that she had a total New Zealand accent. I was stunned... and also a bit embarrassed as I'd asked her where she's from only to have her tell me the brain injury story :(
I dreamed in a foreign language I was learning. I was at beginner stage but for some reason was able to read and understand the news article that appeared in my dream fluently. It was a news article I had never seen before.
I had a really bad brain injury when I was in third grade when I got hit by a car and sadly I didn't pick up no accent because I didn't know any other languages nor did I speak any other. However, I'm now learning Russian and it would be so cool if my brain would kick in the Russian when I woke up tomorrow morning.
I once read about a guy who woke up speaking Swedish after a severe head injury that left him in a coma for a few days. He had lived in Sweden for a couple of years some 10 or so years before, but never mastered the language. Being an American, he had to relearn English and was stuck with a Swedish accent for life.
so crazy
My uncle's cousin was kicked in the head by a horse at his job and he woke up only being able to speak Spanish and they had to have a translator every time they went to visit him. Sadly, he passed away from the injury, but it was so fasinating at the time!
What I've experienced was with those "learn x language while sleeping" (which I always thought were fake). I was watching a show in german at that time, the day before I understood like 40% of what was being said, after the night with 8 hours of audio while sleeping, I was at like 80%, It was just much more clear to separate words, and therefore to understand the sense of the senteces, and then your brains kind of figures the rest by context
I would find it worse not to remember my native language 😮
It would be a tragedy. Nothing can replace your native language and the deep cultural knowledge that comes with it. You would never feel totally at home again.
Very intriguing. Thank you for sharing it!
I've been exposing myself to more than 2 languages outside of my native Indonesian. English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French, German, sometimes Russian. Can I slam my head hard now so that when I wake up, I can potentially speak all those languages at C1 level? 😭
Omg samee 🤣💀
Or maybe a creole of them all that nobody understands
Ah don't worry, I'm sure someone would be willing to assist you with that :)
woah woah- @@shiva_689
This is really a fascinating topic. I wish you could make more videos on this. I was thinking if this Chinese speaking guy also got fluency in writing and reading?
I think it says in the video that he wrote a note to his family in Chinese and the nurse translated it for them. How fluently, who knows? He had learned a bit of Chinese, but his post-injury Chinese was much better than it had ever been - i.e., when it was the only language available to him, his brain seemed to be accessing language that had not been easily accessible before the injury. It shows there's more in there than we think there is!
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Glad you enjoy it!
you forgot to mention the man who woke up speaking only Swedish. According to some stuff I found on him he had a condition called transient global amnesia. Not only did he forget his English, He also forgot his past and his identity. He did eventually move to Sweden but sadly the condition was too much for him to handle and he passed away from what is believed to be suicide. I think his story is the most heartbreaking out of all of the ones I've seen about this
I can relate in a couple of ways. First, when I was in high school, I had a head injury, with a concussion. I ended up with some memory loss, in a strange way: I'd be singing a song, and I'd get to a verse, and I knew that I knew the verse, but couldn't recall it, and if I tried to recall those memories, I got a strong headache. Headaches abated and my ability to form and recall memories have improved over the decades.
I do code-switch freely; I'm studying Japanese, and my inner dialog switches between Japanese and English and sometimes both at the same time. Or, if I'm not doing much else, my brain just decides to practice Japanese words I've been having trouble with. And, after waiting in line at the pharmacy and studying Japanese flashcards on my phone, I unthinkingly responded in Japanese: "I have one prescription ready for you." "はい...Oh, sorry, yes, yes..."
And I definitely agree on the confidence angle. I take an in-person Japanese class with a native speaker on Zoom every week for about a year now (my brain just reminded me that in Japanese that's a テレベかいぎ...a television meeting, new vocabulary...). We're learning some new grammar, and it's a little complex, and nobody was really volunteering to speak, so I spoke up...and I did well at it. I could tell that my brain was working hard, but I got it right and sensei was impressed. Trevor Noah had a clip where he said that that one of the keys to getting good at speaking a language is to just speak without being self conscious. Little children who are learning language don't worry if they're going to be right, they just speak.
Fascinating! Knowing everything we’re exposed to does go in our brains, perhaps now we can relax or learn languages for fun, and have what we’re learning show up a bit more fluently (and safely without injury or wrong medication imperiling our lives).
What a super interesting story and video topic. Thanks for sharing Olly!!
Always quality content and production values.
that is crazy and super interesting 🤯🤯🤯
I sometimes hear myself speaking with the accent of any person I happen to be speaking to, that is not a native English speaker. This doesn't always happen but when it does, it's very annoying because I fear they might think I am making fun of them, but it is absolutely involuntary. I think this only happens when the person I am speaking to only has a basic knowledge of English.
I spent two years living in Germany, but whilst I was there unfortunately did not have time to do any lessons, I was working in an office where everyone spoke English, and was usually around predominantly English speakers when I was out socialising. I also didn't watch any local TV in that time. After I came back to the UK I started dreaming in German, and whilst I still can't really speak it proficiently I can form basic conversational phrases and have a far better comprehension of spoken German in movies etc than I had when I was there.
interesting!
I meet someone that had really thick American southern drawl but was from a new york. He didnt realize he had one up until everyone he met when he was younger will as him if he was from Texas or Mississippi
I woke up back when I'm at 7th grade and knew that I can speak at understand English language fluently
Accent can change according to muscles you use to talk. Eventually you can change the way you talk and the "accent" shows out. Indeed we associate the accent, they just change the way the talk
When I revisited learning Spanish some 18 years after having had it in high school for 3 years, I was surprised by how much I could remember once I started exposing myself to it again. I likened it to my brain being forced to go down into the basement and bring up boxes of Spanish words that had been packed away like forgotten Christmas decorations. Once I let the brain know I was going to be needing that stuff again, it just started bringing it up in bulk, so I didn't have to struggle to remember.
After about a year, I got busy doing other things and stopped learning Spanish, but I didn't feel bad about it, knowing that I could resurrect it pretty quickly at any time.
Fast forward another 5 years and I have started learning Polish. About a year or so into learning it, however--right at the point where I have gotten a tutor and I'm trying to speak--I suddenly start recalling Spanish words instead of Polish words--including some I have probably not been exposed to in nearly 25 years. Polish words I knew quite well would suddenly disappear and I could only come up with the Spanish word. Then there was that distressing moment when I was actually ordering something from the Mexican restaurant in Spanish, replied automatically to a question with "tak" ("yes" in Polish), then, when I tried to clarify what I meant to the confused lady on the phone, found I could not only not remember the word for "yes" in Spanish, but I also couldn't remember it in English.
I told my tutor it was like my brain had a shelf for foreign languages and it did not separate Polish from Spanish; it just stored them all jumbled up together and when I reached for a word, it pulled the first translation off the shelf, regardless of what language it was actually in.
Moving on another couple of years, though, and now my brain is fully switched over to Polish and if I try to think of something in Spanish, the first word that comes to my mind is Polish.
So I can absolutely believe that if people have head trauma, their brains can swap the words in the basement for the words it normally keeps cached upstairs for easy access. Brains are wonderful and mysterious things.
Love this!
I've had a similar experience. I started learning French and Portuguese on my own as a teenager, but completely abandoned them for the next 20 years. Now studying Italian, I often get frustrated because a phrase comes out my mouth that's somehow all three languages. Certain Portuguese words are really strong in me, and those ones just bully the Italian equivalent out the way every time!! What's more, sometimes when I'm speaking my other native tongue, Afrikaans, either French or Portuguese will get in the way. In the moment, it feels like the long-ago word is standing in front of the Afrikaans one and deliberately blocking it, like a bodyguard. Yet I can't speak French or Portuguese if I actually try to. So I love your analogy of the basement full of boxes of foreign words. ;)
As far as fluency goes, this generally means you haven't reached a high enough level to say you've truly acquired the language. BUT I think there's more to it, because these days I'm forgetting how to say things in English, too!
I totally get this. I have studied both Spanish and Italian and they are very hard to separate my mind.
I guess one thing I learned from this is to choose your second language wisely!
No kidding - it would suck to be stuck speaking a very rare language - In my area, it would be best to be stuck with Spanish or Bangladeshi. Especially Spanish....
@@shutterchick79 I'm stuck with Esperanto ...
Amazing ❤❤.
Great video! I see that the newest Short Stories book coming out next year is for Welsh. Any chance you will ever make ones for some of the Asian languages? I would love to see one for Indonesian.
That’s how I learned Spanish, I never tried to learn it, just realized I could speak it one morning
I wonder which language my brain would choose if my connection to English was severed. Would it choose my 2nd strongest language? I've learned about 5 languages on at least a very basic level, but only know 2 of them well enough for a conversation. But who knows what my brain's holding back on?
I have had the reverse experience to this, in a way. Back in my youth I learned Welsh to the level where I could hold a basic conversation off the cuff ... but then I had a pretty bad (as in near-fatal) motorcycle crash that involved a couple of very heavy hits to the head. This has had several bad effects as my brain healed and remapped itself around the damaged bits but the one I resent the most is that my Welsh was erased. I describe the feel of it as being like when you first have a tooth extracted in that you know there used to be something there but whenever you search for it it is now gone. Oddly I could recall a list of nouns still but that was it.
If you're an english teacher and you forgot your language or even gained a weird accent, you're then effectively fucked.
I’m Australian. I had a bad accident about 20 years ago and was in a coma for a couple of days. When I woke up, I chatted to an Irish nurse in fluent Irish Gaelic. The nurse was amazed, and the doctors were concerned that there might have been some brain damage. But it didn’t surprise my family at all. I chat to Irish people in Irish all the time. I speak several languages. I’d been teaching Irish Gaelic in Sydney at that time for several years… and I still teach the Irish language.
OMG! There is actually a name for that/it's a real thing?
Since the pandemic I have to concentrate to speak my native language (french) than english and I had theorized that it was a blend of pre-existing brain damages, psychological aspects and living confinement watching/reading stuff mostly in english that made it easier for me to use the part of my brain associated with second language (in my case mostly english with some spanish) than the one associated with french.
I'm getting better but it still a struggle living in a french City when french has weirdly became a second language that I don't master quite as well as I would like.
I noticed a few of these stories the nurses spoke the foreign language and the patient woke up with the language.
i speakTurkish and English fluently. and learning Spanish rn. what would happened to me?? i wonder
This is fascinating! Can I wake up speaking Spanish, please?!
Learn a second language, in case you have the misfortune to suffer a head injury. So that there's something for your brain to find, when it looks for a non-native language.
I'd love to know whether people in this situation still understand their native language, even though unable to speak it, or whether they have to re-learn it as a foreign language. It looks like they do still understand it, as the stories here are more about the problems other people have in understanding them.
Their native language starts coming back to them as their head heals.
@@lisanarramore222 Aah! Thank you.
That was fascinating! I was expecting you to say if you listen to a language while you sleep it can speed up your skills. (IF ONLY)
Olly can this be done willingly like learn while you sleep or while a person is in a medically induced coma learn another language with fluency or anything else for that matter?
It would only work if you already had learned the basics of the language.
I woke about a month ago and suddenly could communicate with my cat fluently.
I’m wondering what language would end up taking over if I lost English. Mandarin, technically my first language but don’t speak it like it is, Spanish or Korean? Or would I have lost Chinese too? 🤔
Wow! Now thats a case from the x-files!
How frustrating it must be for these people, but fascinating for the rest of us! I remember when i had my knee surgeries; my mum said the first time i woke up speaking Irish (which i had been learning at the time) and the second time i woke up speaking German (which i practiced a lot and grew up around). I totally don't remember it myself, but at least my mother's high school German was handy the second time around! 😂
I think if I could sound like native with a gereral accent, I think it would be a fair exchange for forgetting my native tongue. I rarely speak it anyway and the only person that would struggle to understand me would be my father. (But I would be upset if my brain picked any other of the languages I have dabbled with.)
Having a Croatian accent in Sydney is no big deal. There are plenty of Croats, Serbs & Slovenes in Sydney (like me). So, if I get someone to kick me in the head my Slovenian and Russian will become fluent? Worth considering.
I purchased your book "Short stories in French "😊😊😊
I'm from rural Texas, and even Texas city folk raise their eyebrows when they hear me talk. Usually they guess I'm from some place out-of-state, but I put it down to the accent of TV/middle America replacing local accents. I'm quite pleased with my accent (to me, my family, area, and region, I don't have any kind of accent), but forgetting English or losing my non-accent would both be traumatizing. Probably I'd wake up speaking Spanish, which is the first language of more than half the people around me, and has its own benefits, but I'd still hate to lose the authentic me.
And yes, people in America (other places?) view rural accents as low I.Q., and judge those like me (even though I have an M.Ed)) as being less intelligent.
I never had any brain trauma or took the wrong medication, but multiple people havecasked me if I was from Germany because I sound German when I talk (even people who know German and hsve been to Germany). I've lived in America my whole life and have never spoken to anyone who speaks German.
I speak Spanish every day, and when I went to sleep last night, I know quite a few, but when I woke up, I speak a lot more, but I’m still having trouble putting Spanish verbs gather
People always ask me where my accent is from. I always say i moved too often to catch a local accent lol
Since I already have multiple accents, that wouldn't bother me.
But waking up with a new language would be awesome, except I'd want it to be a Celtic one and I don't think I've had enough exposure to them...
One time I got so drunk, I started speaking mandarin. I wasn't fluent in the language. But I studied it for some time.
I would gladly take a British accent. I don't like the American accent.
I believe these guys.
Once, I was drunk and faked an accent just as a joke... it started to snowball and I was unable to return to my normal accent (or to my secondary accent when I'm in the village with those friends).
The day after it just turned back into normal, but it doesn't surprise me that people after a comma or seizures, etc suffer something beyond what I experienced.
No one of that basque accent was there, and even I think I hasn't ever been at the basque country at that time.
Also, it was a bit frustraiting but also funny, so it wasn't like "suffering".
I have a friend born into a "cult" who has a system multiple personalities and one of her alters was taught German as part of her programming. Her boyfriend now husband enjoys practicing his high school German with her.
I heard a story of an American man who emigrated to the USSR in the 50-s and lived most of his life in Russia, then he got a stroke and forgot Russian and spoke only English
I feel like this is the opinion most would share, but I would much rather forget my native accent than my native language. Accents are cool, and so are languages. If I got a new accent, cool, tant mieux. If I forget a whole language, well I’m losing both an accent and a language, which doesn’t sound fun to me
tbh 8:14 I would choose to hear the name of the medication but they won't tell no one
The first one would have been more convincing if she didn't look hungarian-romanian
She's not - I've heard her 'before voice'. Definitely British.
this is very interesting. You know, I once I saw something in a psychology class, where a woman was speaking a different language. It was just really bizarre. These things do happen, and it is very interesting. I can't remember what psychology class it was, or what the name of the woman was, but it was just really bizarre. It's pretty interesting, how being in a coma can change your life. I heard a story about a girl who was in a coma for 20 years. Because she hadn't spoken for that long, her muscles were dormant. I forget her name. Her first name was Sarah. She was from Canada. She was dubbed the real sleeping beauty.
One thing is true; «fairytales exsists»•
Another truth; «fairytales are just fairytales»•
I may be, could understand how someone could acquire a accent, but how did the Young Man acquire the ability to write in Chinese?
Don’t try this at home or anywhere !
If I could just bump my head to be fluent in German I think I’d do it 🤣
Perhaps they've been watching too much Allo Allo.
Note to self: You can skip all those years of hard work learning a language by just giving myself a horribly head trauma!
How did the accident changing everything that's unreal till now I don't believe it everything on internet
So the Monty Python "can't say the letter C" thing could be real?
I personally think the accents are not great. They are best approximation of what they remember.
I can do almost any accent pretty accurately after listening to it for a little while. To the point where native speakers believe me.
Bilingual Aphasia would be extrememly frustrating.
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My migraines have neverrrr Woww I wish
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I didn't know that about George Michael
Memories aren't stored in a specific place in the brain.
Just have a stroke, LOL.
in brief:
1. **Introduction**: The video explores the intriguing idea of waking up fluent in a language you didn't previously know or waking up with a new accent.
2. **Cases of New Accents**:
- **Karen**: An American mom from Oregon who woke up with a foreign-sounding accent after a dentist visit.
- **Emily**: From the UK, she went mute in the hospital for three weeks. When she began speaking again, she had a fluctuating accent that sounded French, Italian, Russian, and sometimes Polish.
3. **Cases of Sudden Language Fluency**:
- **Ben**: An Australian who was in a coma due to a car accident. Upon waking, he could only speak Mandarin Chinese, a language he had only basic knowledge of from high school.
- **Georgia Boy**: A 16-year-old American who, after being in a coma due to a soccer injury, woke up speaking fluent Spanish, despite only knowing a few words prior.
- **Rory**: An English footballer who, after a severe head injury and coma, woke up speaking French with a Normandy accent.
4. **Accent Changes**:
- **Sarah**: A British woman who woke up with a Chinese accent after a severe migraine.
- **Cindy**: Had a seizure and medication side effects that changed her accent.
5. **Science Behind the Phenomenon**:
- **Bilingual Aphasia**: Switching languages unintentionally. For instance, Ben's brain, after the accident, defaulted to Mandarin since the part that knew English was damaged.
- **Foreign Accent Syndrome**: A rare speech disorder resulting from brain injury affecting the melody and rhythm of speech. It makes individuals mispronounce sounds, making it seem like they have a foreign accent.
6. **Conclusion**: The video suggests that while these phenomena are rare, they highlight the brain's incredible adaptability and the mysteries of language acquisition. The video also teases an upcoming topic about accents and potential job discrimination.
The video concludes with a call to action for viewers to participate in an accent challenge in another video.
Who wants to get a express language acquisition in the form of a hammer in the head?
I'm sure Olly 100% approves!
😂😂😂
Ben's case has never been verified btw.
I don't know whether to believe you...
Nah, this scientific explanation sounds too easy and convenient.
I’m glad there’s solid science behind it - I’m gonna go take a shit-ton of drugs and see what happens. I used to be friends with a guy who had been in a coma for nine months. His parents were Hungarian, but he didn’t wake up speaking the language. He did, however, suggest that we steal a car and drive to a 24 hour transvestite bar, which you have to admit, is a pretty Hungarian thing to do.
OK. So when is Olly going to tell us how to tap that foreign language knowledge/brain capacity without having a seizure or hurting one's brain randomly?
Through Storylearning, of course! 😉
I think you can. It's like when you're in high school and you cram the night before for an exam, and somehow it actually works and you remember things the next day - because while you're asleep your brain processes the last things that went in (it's why a scary movie can give you nightmares). So perhaps reading foreign stories right before you fall asleep will do the same. I'm going to start doing Storylearning Portuguese just before I fall alseep for the next 6 months!!
He just said how.... by "waking up" 😂😂😂
I wouldn't believe you....
Родной язык - это система мышления. Ни за что не откажусь от русского ❤ у меня есть польские и немецко-литовские корни, наверное поэтому иногда у меня бывают в речи намеки на немецкий и литовский акценты.
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Why has no one woke up with fluent in English 😂
Interesting. Just proves. The powers that be. Like certain people BETTER. !!!
Example didn't know French. Now Flutet
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I am a mri technologist, i had a patient who talked with a language she never talked before, and researched also about it, tower of babel is real dudes, thats not the only thing the bible has proven. you might think i am stupid low iq fool, but i do mri, and its absurb to believe in something that you never experienced at your own, dont worry i was an atheist as well, but became a God believer and became a Jesus believer. Jesus is Lord!
Using brain injuries to advertise your website is a strange choice.
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This is the true biblical speaking in tongues. Not that jiberish crap
Clearly, you don't understand the phenomenon - The Biblical gift of speaking in tongues can be in any language... there are missionaries that have stories of believers that don't speak English receiving the gift of tongues, and the "tongues" was actually in English, a message for the missionaries... I've heard a few stories like that....
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