{"id":975,"date":"2009-01-26T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/?p=975"},"modified":"2009-01-18T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T17:46:14","slug":"czech-speedway-rider-knocked-out-in-crash-wakes-up-speaking-perfect-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/science\/czech-speedway-rider-knocked-out-in-crash-wakes-up-speaking-perfect-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English<\/h4>\n<p class=\"note\">\nBy CHRIS BROOKE<br \/>\n14 September 2007\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>When Matej Kus&#8217;s teammates heard him talking after he was knocked out in a speedway accident, they were relieved he was conscious.<\/strong><br \/>\nBut they were also a little surprised.<\/p>\n<p>For although the 18-year- old Czech knew only the most basic English phrases, he was conversing fluently in the language with paramedics.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCzech Matej Kus, 17, was banged on the head in a racing accident &#8211; and came to speaking perfect English<\/p>\n<p>Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus&#8217;s team, the Berwick Bandits, said: &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe what I was hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything. Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before his crash Matej&#8217;s use of the English language was broken, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was only just making a start on improving it and struggled to be understood, but was keen to learn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet here we were at the ambulance door listening to Matej talking to the medical staff in perfect English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matej didn&#8217;t have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He didn&#8217;t even know he was Czech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alas, Kus&#8217;s new-found language skills didn&#8217;t last.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager, who injured a knee in Sunday&#8217;s accident in Glasgow, is once more struggling to make himself understood in English.<\/p>\n<p>After flying home to the Czech Republic to recover, he said &#8211; through an interpreter &#8211; that he remembered nothing of the accident or of the following two days.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday he added: &#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable that I was speaking English like that, especially without an accent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully I can pick English up over the winter for the start of next season so I&#8217;ll be able to speak it without someone having to hit me over the head first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There must be plenty of the English language in my subconscious so hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to pick it up quickly next time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the accident, team spokesman Lawrence Heppell said: &#8220;He was out cold for 45 minutes and he has been told by the medics to rest for at least a month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matej could only string two or three words of English together and now he can speak it like a native, it&#8217;s incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Waite added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard of other people getting knocked out and waking up talking fluent Italian or in one case even developing a Welsh accent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never really believed it was possible but this incredible thing was happening in front of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"editNote\">\n&lt;&lt;Editors notE&gt;&gt;<br \/>\nEventhough several of these stories pop up in many &#8220;attention seeking&#8221; newspapers and magazines, it all makes quite some sense if u consider the mind to be a spunge that just drinks everything. When that spunge gets reset into a different spungy configuration it isn&#8217;t that rare for this to be occurring.<br \/>\nSo whomever thinks these things are impossible&#8230; try reading up on some &#8220;brainiac studies&#8221;.<br \/>\nThis story just kind of shows a tiny fraction of what our mind&#8217;s are capable of. You know more then you think you know. The only institution trying to make you think you CANNOT do whatever you want with your brain is &#8220;education&#8221; as we know it (which is merely copying facts&#8230; in most cases).<br \/>\nsource:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-481651\/Czech-speedway-rider-knocked-crash-wakes-speaking-perfect-English.html\" title=\"www.dailymail.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.dailymail.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n&copy; copyright::Daily Mail<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English By CHRIS BROOKE 14 September 2007 When Matej Kus&#8217;s teammates heard him talking after he was knocked out in a speedway accident, they were relieved he was conscious. But they were also a little surprised. 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