Good foreign language after coma

After a coma, Croatian girls regained consciousness and suddenly spoke fluent German.

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Telegraph said yesterday that a 13-year-old girl lives in Knin city, southern Croatia and has just started learning German at school.

But after a 24-hour coma, she woke up and communicated with the Germans as if she were born in Germany.

Doctors at Split's KB hospital - where the girl was brought by the family - confirmed this was an unusual case. Many experts examine her to see what makes her speak fluent German.

Dr Dujomir Marasovic, director of the hospital, said: 'Every time a comatose regains consciousness, we cannot know how their brain will react. The scientific world has made many assumptions about this phenomenon, but at the moment we don't know what to say. '

Mijo Milas, a specialist in child diseases, added : 'Previously, such cases could be considered miraculous. But we think there must be a scientific explanation. The problem is we still haven't found that explanation. '

According to Milas, many documents once recorded cases of people seriously ill and falling into a coma suddenly woke up and spoke fluently in other languages. Even many people speak things from ancient times.