My German uncle had a stroke and was unconscious for a bit. Woke up in the hospital and asked the nurse - in English, in which he is fluent - why he was there. She answered in German and then he started to freak out because he didn’t understand her so he had no idea where he was. They immediately called in some one to speak English to reassure him, but he never spoke German again and died a couple years later.
Taney34 t1_j67a3ev wrote
Reply to TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety
My German uncle had a stroke and was unconscious for a bit. Woke up in the hospital and asked the nurse - in English, in which he is fluent - why he was there. She answered in German and then he started to freak out because he didn’t understand her so he had no idea where he was. They immediately called in some one to speak English to reassure him, but he never spoke German again and died a couple years later.