{"id":714,"date":"2010-04-14T21:15:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2010-04-21T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T21:19:12","slug":"croatian-teen-changes-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/croatian-teen-changes-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatian teen changes languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Croatian_language\">Croatian<\/a> girl has woken up from a coma speaking fluent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/language\/german.html\">German<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Having only recently started learning the language, the 13 year old was not fluent before the coma, according to her parents. She is now also unable to speak Croatian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Psychiatric expert Dr Mijo Milas added: &#8220;In earlier times this would have been referred to as a miracle, we prefer to think that there must be a logical explanation \u2013 its just that we haven&#8217;t found it yet. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are references to cases where people who have been seriously ill and perhaps in a coma have woken up being able to speak other languages \u2013 sometimes even the Biblical languages such as that spoken in old Babylon or Egypt \u2013 at the moment though any speculation would remain just that \u2013 speculation \u2013 so it&#8217;s better to continue tests until we actually know something.&#8221; (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/croatia\/7583971\/Croatian-teenager-wakes-from-coma-speaking-fluent-German.html\">Telegraph<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the story had appeared a couple of weeks ago, I would have assumed it was an April Fool\u2019s joke. I can\u2019t find any follow up stories on this though \u2013 I wonder if the girl has regained her native Croatian?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Croatian girl has woken up from a coma speaking fluent German. Having only recently started learning the language, the 13 year old was not fluent before the coma, according to her parents. She is now also unable to speak Croatian. Psychiatric expert Dr Mijo Milas added: &#8220;In earlier times this would have been referred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[701,699,700,5,51],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-german","tag-biblical-languages","tag-croatian","tag-fluent","tag-german","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}