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| rolf Senior Member United Kingdom improvingmydutch.blo Joined 6007 days ago 107 posts - 134 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch | Message 9 of 12 29 December 2012 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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haha, thanks for the clarification.
I guess it's still interesting that what he had originally learned was never really lost! It can be re-activated instantaneously because his brain never lost the knowledge. If only there were some other way of doing that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4749 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 10 of 12 29 December 2012 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know the story of a Norwegian woman who had a stroke, and had to re-learn (how to speak) Norwegian.
Eventually, she did learn it, but her Norwegian was devoid of tones/pitch. (This would mean that only in childhood you can naturally ''acquire''' the Norwegian tonal/pitch accent, you cannot learn it consciously). It's called FOREIGN ACCENT SYNDROME http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome Edited by Camundonguinho on 29 December 2012 at 8:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 12 29 December 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5499 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 12 of 12 30 December 2012 at 6:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Hm... reminds me of this short film. An Irish man who only speaks English wakes up one
day speaking fluent Irish Gaelic and nothing else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-yDRPnbOM Though the film is fictional, I find it interesting how closely parallel the two stories are. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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