Discovery Health- Foreign Accent Syndrome

[Bilbo409]

sounds more.... australiann? than britishh... hmmm..

[qarahiyo]

It's irritating hearing her that spells out FAKING

[nickypeeps]

i think the culprit behind all of this is that she really just woke up with a retarded voice, and that it just coincidentally sounds British because British people also have retarded voices

[joshuamyler]

but she does not sound english

[Nelb33]

Any of these people ever heard an English person speak?!

[kieran1990able]

Fuckin i wana get that migraine and foreign british accent syndrome........many people might not have noticed but british accent is easy to learn. british accent is too polite accent and on top they pull their mouth too much just to speak a single word

[kieran1990able]

Fuckin i wana get that migraine and foreign british accent syndrome........many people might not have noticed but british accent is easy to learn. british accent is too polite accent and on top they pull their mouth too much just to speak a single word

[PhillJohnDavis]

English my arse she doesn't sound at all English or Australian for that matter.

[PerryNeff]

HAHAHA "SHE SPOKE LIKE A TRUE LONDONER"? NOOOOT AT ALL!

[jakemitchell64]

That is the worst British accent I have ever heard

[HurryHarryNoE]

It's Australian. Sounds hardly British...

[Unetymological]

@HurryHarryNoE Lol, I am Australian and that is definitely not Australian.

[RazorsEdge9K]

like a true londoner haha what like from 100 years ago haha.

[xRagma]

bitch is almost falling apart!

[Burnsie364]

like a true londoner..yea right!

[ScootchTumBoarder]

Clearly not an english accent, more australian then anything. British people never have, or will speek like that. stupid americans who have never experiance another culture making prejudice judgements

[sweetytweety0011]

I am British, she does NOT sound english. Just when americans try to mimick the accent BADLY!

[ilovetocmmt]

Here's what I think she is either faking the "accent" or her speech changed when she had a stroke and she looked up tons of British slang. Oh btw to me this doesn't sound like an accent it sounds like a stupid American trying to sound British and failing. :)

[Sesquipedaliantique]

"afflicted" by an English accent?

[johnson1095]

@Sesquipedaliantique

i think this makes her sound SMARTER if anything.

[roggy12345]

london accent? WTF

[libertycaps666]

thats pretty crazy sounds like a cockney sorta accent alright

[26Y4U777]

I'd love to have a accent.

[bmcc123]

australian

[animalEm08]

Yeah I don't think that sounds very British....

[Kieran5825]

no, no, no this is horseshit unless there is another england, central to the universe that I don't know about...

[iPixelen]

"This isn't an act. Tiffany has never been to England." Yeah, no shit.

[toweronepower]

She just sounds like another whining yank to me

[MrEmmacath224]

english?! lmao is not!

[lasbagman1]

Everyone is missing the point, its a story on how the brain works and how it can affect speech. It would be like a Brit that would aquire a perceived American accent after a stroke.

[TwnklToes347]

@lasbagman1 Thanks for saying that. I get so many annoying comments on this video, as you can tell. It doesn't matter that it's not a British accent! Just crazy that she got an accent at all.

[thebasementmusicians]

that is not english wtf

[lasbagman1]

The point is to american ears, she has a foreign accent. This is really brain damage as a result of a stroke. She is extremely lucky to speak at all.

[ThomasAChamberlain]

I'm from London, that is not a london accent, that is not any accent! It's a crazy lady voice!!

[xlokianx]

They deaf? thats Aussie not British

[AnimeVenue]

That sounds like Australian not even British

[joana2604]

she's lucky, at least she got a nice-sounding accent. I mean she could have gotten an accent that 's hardly understandable.

[ThomasAChamberlain]

@phillyvinilli i'll be pedantic if I want...who are you to say otherwise, idiot..

[ThomasAChamberlain]

@phillyvinilli i don't sound like a londoner?? who cares what you think, I am :/

[bzaskunk]

Haha someone went to the Dick Van Dyke school of english accents!

[Tetrisrock]

Sounds more Australian than anything. Certainly not like any English accent i've heard!

Dick Van Dyke syndrome, maybe.

[CaptainDiscount]

It certainly sounds like she's never been to England...

[DyslexiaSkucs]

pretty sure thats not british..-.-

[glueyourfingers]

That sounds nothing like a British accent.

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[matt25491]

this is definitely dubstep

[rabbiemunro]

a true londoner. pah!

[ChickaShnaz]

Not an Australian Accent.

[TheHeatherfeather1]

people who are trying to fake british accents often come off sounding Australian. i call shenanigans on this vid!

[Lilmizmo]

I'm American, but I have relatives in London and she doesn't sound English..she sounds Australian.

[lcbreezyl]

she had a stroke and now talks like that... shows that the aussies have brain problems

[jpbackintown]

Sounds Australian to me, not English!! She has those high bits at the end of her sentence, English don't have that!!

[Pandaspazzes]

@eternalgracenote no, thats the chick who "commits" suicide like, twice a week.

[roggy12345]

@eternalgracenote LOL

[slish2]

that isnt a london accent

[DarkApteryx]

So glad she's found solace in her condition though

[prodigychild1988]

People... FAS doesn't necessarily give a person a spot on, perfect version of an accent that people usually only get from residing and growing up in an area. But, to me, her accent does sound like a British person that has lived in America for a while, picking up some of the American accent over the years. Still not perfect, though. And remember, it's a brain injury, which is what it mainly sounds like. Like someone with a brain injury that just happened to give them a kind of lovely accent.

[axelmoore]

Good news is, thats not an English accent.

[ChildOfTheSettingSun]

OK, to clear this up - Am am Australian. She sounds NOTHING like it... I don't know what she is. She does NOT sound Australian!!! Ha ha ha ha! :D :D

[astemp01]

lmao i love this

[whizcuz]

Stop arguing over whether is sounds British or Australian. Get over it. THE point is her condition. It's like another woman who suffered a similar thing and had a "Chinese" sounding voice.

[Pommit]

She sounds more Australian than English.

[ChildOfTheSettingSun]

@Pommit LOL! No she doesn't!!!!!!!!

[randomnessandfun]

true londoner? sounds more like an australian

[johnnyXsniper]

americans cant seem to differenciate between any accents what so ever, this is more australian.

[TheAlkable]

Sounds like an aussie to me not English.

[carloncho1607]

that sounds more irish.

[schizoidchimp]

"...instead, she spoke like a true londoner" hahahahaha wtf stupid yanks

[thebunny14]

Aussie accent

[mansterfour]

hahahahahahahah wtf kind of accent is that

[aznmarty256]

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."

[dramionefanatic]

Dude, she sounds like an Aussie, not a Brit.

[HailToTheSkunk]

should move to England if you want to feel normal again

[Douchedoctor]

Who cares if she has a mixed up stroke accent - she is one hot GMILF!

[Tommy1The2Bat3]

thats not an English accent - more australian if anything

[GodivaMiyagi]

it sounds aussie to me tbh, nothin like a london accent.

[740205]

To me she sounds sometimes American, sometimes Australian, sometimes exaggerated Cockney English - it's not really any one accent, just a mix of different sounds... I'm a Londoner and she definitely wouldn't pass as English here!

[tangles2000]

That is not an australian accent I am a proud aussie and we do not sound like that.

[bluetelecaster87]

'Tiffany has never been to England'

That why she can't speak in an English accent? Maybe she's been to Australia...

[ABigOneLikeDaddys]

I'm getting married in the morning!

Ding dong! The bells are gonna chime.

Pull out the stopper!

Let's have a whopper!

But get me to the church on time!

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[p717]

Not London. Kind of like a West country mix with Strine with Americanism. Might sound very Brit to Americans, but it doesn't sound like any of the London dialects.

[airrocker001]

sometimes it goes away

[Eradicus]

Australian accent.

[ChildOfTheSettingSun]

@Eradicus It's NOT AUSTRALIAN!

[Pommit]

@ChildOfTheSettingSun - It sounds more like it to me, from a British point of view. Does not sound like an accent from the British Isles.

[Pommit]

@ChildOfTheSettingSun -It sounds more like it to me, from a British point of view. Does not sound like an accent from the British Isles.  But it is like Kath and Kim!

[ChildOfTheSettingSun]

@Pommit I am Australian, I live in Sydney! Lol, it makes me laugh when people say that she sounds Australian, because when you are, it sounds NOTHING like us :D Ha ha ha ha ha!!

[Pommit]

@ChildOfTheSettingSun - Oh come on, she is copying Kath and Kim! Though seriously, I have no idea, but it isn't an English accent.

[ChildOfTheSettingSun]

@Pommit She is so NOT copying Kath and Kim! How do you know about that show anyway?? lol

[jbrook1]

@Eradicus definatly british

[metalumbrella]

@Eradicus i agree... it doesn't sound british, it sounds more aussie.

[vichiousfishes]

For further research I'd like to conduct an FMRI on a randomized sample of people when they purposely fake an accent. Then if established patterns emerge, compare that to her accent. It's obviously a "faked" accent but she may not be doing it on purpose. I'm thinking there was damage that somehow reconnected normal speech to the "fake a British accent" area. Like plugging in a lamp where the TV was. Turn on the wall switch and the TV goes on, not the lamp.

[Crimsonrose22]

"This isn't an act."... uhm... yeah, sure.

[hairyclips]

She sounds like a australian squirrel

[ABigOneLikeDaddys]

@hairyclips no such thing

[Techykabas]

Sounds more like Irish and British mixed!

[Alladin1984]

Shes still hot tho

[fidell90]

lol this is insulting to londoners

[YourSoulEmbarks]

Foreign Accent Syndrome is a nicer way to say you have a messed up vocal chords..

[hotchickfv]

that's not a british accent...

[papatoony]

This is like what happened to Desiree Jennings!

[Aniland]

I want this syndrome. Please, powers that be, make me a Swede.

[slipNslideGoon]

@Aniland so u wanna have a stroke



[Aniland]

@slipNslideGoon Did I say that?

[slipNslideGoon]

@Aniland well u said u wanted the syndrome and the way she got the syndrome was a stroke.

[UndeservedUnobserved]

a true londoner? no way mate

[bluekitteneyes]

that does NOT sound british :))

it sounds more like an autrailian accent

[stewarnata]

Millyybabess- im from New Zealand and there is no way it sounds anything like a new zealander

[hellohello1234567810]

haha 'she spoke like a true londoner' SUUUURE YOU DO...she sounds like mixture of australian, american, english and parrot. Not to be harsh or anything - i know she can't help it, but it's the fact that they think that that's what english people sound like is ridiculous :P

[aspieasta]

I'm English, and to me it sounds like a mix of Australian and American, with slight English prosody. She still has a lot of American phonemes, and American pronunciations of words (such as 'frustrated', 'hospitalised', 'hours'). Her speech has just become disjointed, slightly slurred, and her phonemes are inconsistent. It's not a genuine foreign accent. The brain injury affects phoneme consistency, and it has the appearance of a foreign accent. It is a genuine condition though.

[desu38]

"Hello guv'nor! Throw another shrimp on the barbie for me! Wait, that's Irish."

[iuguolovos]

@desu38 no australian....

[BallBusterful]

@desu38 are u joking?

[M45T3R84T10N]

@desu38

i love you.

[14duffytc1]

@desu38 its not

im irish. i should know

[WyattCaroline]

I have exerienced Foreign Accent Syndrome, after a serious head injury. I spoke Germanic, French and southern American. Believe me it's not something which you fake, it's a medical condition, damage to the brain. This is a very rare condition which sometimes does not go away. Really you should show some kind understanding for this poor woman, and think hard about some of your rude comments.

[emzmurcko]

shes faking

[DJOfRadioGallifrey]

when she started it sounded more australian.

[samanthadelaide]

no way is that london :/ i mean wtf its australian

[millyybabess]

That is no where near English! I should know I'm English. It sounds more australian or new Zealand.

[Jasonmyways]

Definitely Australian

[sara4edwardcullen]

it sounds australian, not british wtf

[heelrunner]

That is not English. I love listening to accents and she sounds more like Sharon Osbourne (I love Sharon, no offense). Or someone from Queens. Well, not really. A mix of different accents. ^_^

[thechoosenone420]

her voice sounded hot now its... annoying

[BonseBalm]

As an Englishman, I kind of object to the phrase 'afflicted with an English accent'. I'm not particularly proud or protective of the English accent but don't really consider myself 'afflicted' with it either.

[Toadsanime]

Yeah, terrible condition and all, but we don't sound like that whatsoever in England, sounds more Australian than English even.

[neveremailme]

thats australian...not english

[AmberHopePierce]

well the reason its not authentic is because the only example her brain had to use for developing speech after her stroke was from previous memories she may have had of hearing the accent, like if a friend always did a really bad english accent as a joke. if it were authentic this would not be a syndrome, b/c it would have been learned over time from actual users of the accent.

but b/c she lived in america, her memories of the accent that her brain used to speak could only be what she knew.

[AmberHopePierce]

@ the same thing happens with personality disorders, such as when a person takes on the personality of a famous person. they are not actually becoming like the real, lets say, "Napoleon", they just become what their brain knows napoleon to be, which is an opulent outfit, hand tucked in his vest, and a french accent (which they probably pronounce badly as well)

[courteneyromano]

That is so not an english accent - trust me!

[eashieluvsmusic]

shes sounds nothing like english ...no way in hell she has more of an aussie accent but even then i cant realli tell its a mixture of loads..

but defo not english//

i think she sounds irish... NOT

[benjii1234]

stupid americans... thats not an english accent its more new zealand like...

(it gets more annoying as i watch more!!) haha

[emwat1]

That really is not an English accent.

It's more Australian with a hint of American..

[thelovepigeon]

Wow, she could be on Eastenders with her 'true Londoner' accent! Bloody hell.

[jockster1994]

that doesnt even sound legit.

it sounds like a bull sht mixture of australian, british, and american english.

[jockster1994]

that doesnt even sound legit.

[JackieChan173]

um, true londoner? sounds like an american trying to talk like the queen.

[90mloda]

she lost friends because her accent changed?? wtf theyre dumb

[liverpoollibra1]

TRUE LONDONER MY ARSE !!

[JadoreViolet]

lols i know its already been said but THAT IS NOT AN ENGLISH ACCENT it kinda sounds australian but i wouldnt even say that really. lol i just watched a vid on a news site of the women whos suposed to have a chinese accent after having a migraine and she doesnt really sound chinese either but more so than this person sounds english

[skwerlsr]

Ok people, I figured it out. foreign accent syndrome isn't where you speak with a foreign accent, but a brain malfunction! Duh but dig... The brain had a crash course in speech after being traumatized and the communication between the brain and the mouth were rewired. You know the words, you have to relearn how to say them. Like ThomasAChamberlain who is a native of this accent would say it's not a real accent is correct. It's a speech impediment that sounds like another accent.

[Mattundies]

Just shows how ignorant americans are, that is nothing like a british accent. So very dumb!

[CandysAllMediaReview]

@Mattundies Piss off ya dumb Limey

[KOkingnufc07]

Thats a Australian accent deffaintely not a English accent lol

[HALFAMICK]

Be god gavna what on earth are ya tawkin about!

[honeytopaz]

Waaa how is that a true londoner's accent? :S

[alosthuman]

That's an Australian accent!!!

[repoengland]

Worse than Dick Van Dykes attempt.

[dashinvaine]

Sounds more like an Australian on helium to me.

[TheyBastardisedJesus]

lol i love how americans dnt realise thats an aussie accent and call it a british one

an australian parrot

[xanderxine]

Doesnt sound anything like an English accent. Sounds more like a drunk Australian trying to speak American!

[JamesTKirkCobain]

Wow that`s exactly what happened to Madonna, but I don`t think that was foriegn accent syndrome. More like "I am an asshole syndrome"

[21centurynostradamus]

sounds Australian

[xnightreaperx]

you can hear her sounding way more american by the way she says "are'' than a brit...thats for sure. She doesnt really sound anything like a brit at all.

[Mollarooza]

She sounds a bit like kristina keneally actually

[labuff83]

@Mollarooza It is a little hard to put a definitive accent like hers to a specific linguistic type or regional area. But you're right, it does sound a little muddled like Kristina Keneally's, the only difference here is, what we're hearing from this woman's voice is actually brain damage. If you hear her voice you can still hear the american twang in the end of some of her sentences.

[Mollarooza]

Maybe its because British/Australian accents are more how would you put it more or a neuteral souding accent than the american accent

So when she had the stroke it was easier for her to talk like us

[ddfMCH]

Sound a little Cornwallish...

[sumoworm]

she sounds australian

[Snyggrumpa29]

i think the stroke affected her speech abilities which cause her to produce a less authentic sounding "londoner" accent but having said that, it didnt sound like a British accent.

[PurpleHazeHippie]

It doesn't sound anything like an English or an Australian accent.

[tezmt1]

Typical americans thinking that an australian accent sounds like a british accent.

[katelyniswayawesome]

Worst English accent ever. xD

[MitchyTheDon]

She sounds like more Australian than anythin.

[kirstiedale3]

She doesnt sound english at all....We dont sound like that LOL..

[roggy12345]

it just shows america hates the british

[lasbagman1]

She had a stroke and they way she forms her sentences has changed. She did not pick up a accent. Although to an american ear she sounds like she has a foreign dialect. There are 2 people in the UK that have FAS and they sound Italian and German/French

[Leothegreat]

i live in england and ive heard every accent here and that is not an accent thats even close to anything british

[ThomasAChamberlain]

I'm a londoner and THAT is NOT a london accent, not even close..

[oOoCheekiMunki357oOo]

@ThomasAChamberlain Yeah same, it sounds more Australian xD

[lovesmovies477]

you londeners all sound like that- who you kidding? y'all act like you got a bug up the old who ha

[roguegirl29]

@ThomasAChamberlain Maybe it's not an english accent. 

[YourPalHDee]

@ThomasAChamberlain it's not English... in any way whatsoever. She sounds more like an Australian who's been punched in the throat.

[ABigOneLikeDaddys]

@YourPalHDee

What about you y' moron; she no more sounds austrayen that you have a brain.

[021music]

@ThomasAChamberlain

Exactly!!!! That does sound us a little bit but it's not ENGLISH ACCENT!!!

[phillyvinilli]

@ThomasAChamberlain Are you sure you're a londoner ? You don't write like one.

I think the point is she does not sound like an American anymore and there is a slight hint of a UK accent. Stop being so pedantic.