The Woman Who Woke Up Chinese

[Growlithe]

Anyone watching this? Foreign Accent Syndrome? It's bizarre.

I've just tuned in. Bizarre . How frustrating for her and her husband

I think her husband could be a bit more supportive. Saying she does his head in when she is practising.

Poor woman. She's trying so hard to lose the accent

I watched this - it's frustrating or her - poor lady ! But at least she can still talk. Lets hope she gets her old accent back soon !

I saw this yesterday. I dont blame him for been annoyed. I would be too if someone was repeating the word spud over and over

I've got to be honest, when I saw her meeting up with the woman with the French accent I thought it was a wind up.

Also the first shot of the partner where he was in the yard shaving and having a fag. Why was he doing that?

He was multi tasking

They way the neurologist smirked as he spoke suggested he thought it was a wind up too !

The way the whole programme opened with her ordering a Chinese takeaway, and then saying the word "chopsticks" in speech therapy briefly made me wonder if it was April 1st.

I watched this too. I'm not a medical person but right away it seemed to me that she had a speech impediment rather than an accent and I wondered if she had suffered a stroke of some kind. Which appears to have been the case. I didn't think the programme was made in a very sympathetic way.

I thought it made sense when they explained that an event had caused her speech to be limited in such a way that it made her sound as we expect a Chinese person to speak.

There was a boy in DDs reception class who had largely spoken Chinese (Mandarin I think) at home. His mum told me he was having some problems with phonics as some of the sounds were alien to him so he wasn't used to making the shapes with his mouth. She could have been having similar problems, for other reasons.

I just saw this on iPlayer.... She's probably the only person in the world who has ever come off the phone to their insurance company and wept with joy and relief instead of pain and frustration.

tee hee ! that's funny Rainbow Bob !!
Part of my brain shut down in 2010 and haven't been able to speak since ! it's a right PITA - would be greatful to have any accent, if I meant I could communicate easier than typing it all on a large text app !!!

I kept thinking (ignorantly I now realise), surely she can just copy the accent of everyone around her? I didn't see the mention of the speech impediment causing the sounds - that would explain it.

It was an odd programme I agree; I also thought the partner was unsympathetic but by the end my impression was that she was the one insistent on changing things rather than accepting the situation, which, by the end she seemed to have done.

Can't blame her for seeking a solution though.

I've heard about this before, and how it's a speech impediment which listeners just interpret it as being an accent. Did the programme address this?