Suddenly speaking a foreign accent after twitching

A British woman suddenly spoke in a French nose after getting the flu and suffered a series of seizures.

Debie Royston, 40, born in Birmingham, England, has never been to France. However, she now speaks in a strange nasal voice after getting sick. According to Debie, she couldn't speak for a month after suffering a series of seizures and when she spoke again, her voice changed.

Debie is looking forward to recovering her regional accent
Birmingham as his original. (Photo: Daily Mail)

The Daily Mirror quoted Ms Debie as saying: 'I had a very severe seizure and when it stopped, my mouth stopped working. Over the next month, I had to learn to speak again. When I regained my voice, I heard a strange sound, not my Birmingham regional accent. My voice sounded like a French though I had never been there. People often ask me where I am and when I answer Birmingham, they shake their heads and assert I'm French. '

Debie is one of the only 60 people in the world with foreign accent syndrome. She had to give up her job as a teaching assistant at school due to convulsions. Her husband also had to work from home for 6 months to look after his wife.

'Sometimes it's easier to say I'm from France, but at that time, people will start speaking French to me. Some say my voice now sounds very interesting and it would be a pity if I restore the Birmingham accent like the original. That makes me sad because I like my old voice ' , Debie confided.

Professor Nick Miller, a speech disorder specialist at Newcastle University, who diagnosed Debie a year ago, said her condition was still unknown.

Mr. Miller emphasized that in addition to seizures, there may be other factors that make Debie speak a foreign accent. For most people with the same syndrome, speaking a foreign accent is only a temporary period, lasting for days, weeks or months. People who have to speak foreign voices permanently are relatively rare.