This isnt something that should just yield a few 'huhs', it implies something about the human mind.

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When Matej Kus'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.

For although the 18-year- old Czech knew only the most basic English phrases, he was conversing fluently in the language with paramedics.

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Matej Kus

Czech Matej Kus, 17, was banged on the head in a racing accident - and came to speaking perfect English

Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus's team, the Berwick Bandits, said: "I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

"It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything. Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head.

"Before his crash Matej's use of the English language was broken, to put it mildly.

"He was only just making a start on improving it and struggled to be understood, but was keen to learn.

"Yet here we were at the ambulance door listening to Matej talking to the medical staff in perfect English.

"Matej didn't have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He didn't even know he was Czech.

"It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English."

Alas, Kus's new-found language skills didn't last.

The teenager, who injured a knee in Sunday's accident in Glasgow, is once more struggling to make himself understood in English.

After flying home to the Czech Republic to recover, he said - through an interpreter - that he remembered nothing of the accident or of the following two days.

Yesterday he added: "It's unbelievable that I was speaking English like that, especially without an accent.

"Hopefully I can pick English up over the winter for the start of next season so I'll be able to speak it without someone having to hit me over the head first.

"There must be plenty of the English language in my subconscious so hopefully I'll be able to pick it up quickly next time."

After the accident, team spokesman Lawrence Heppell said: "He was out cold for 45 minutes and he has been told by the medics to rest for at least a month.

"Matej could only string two or three words of English together and now he can speak it like a native, it's incredible."

Mr Waite added: "I've heard of other people getting knocked out and waking up talking fluent Italian or in one case even developing a Welsh accent.

"I never really believed it was possible but this incredible thing was happening in front of us."

BRB, gonna get hit by a car and learn spanish.

So if you get hit by a car, you'll learn a new language. How about a plane? (Maybe depending on the flight.)

Wow, that is very interesting & strange that having a crash can 'rearrange' things in his brain in order to be able to speak another language fluently.

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So if you get hit by a car, you'll learn a new language. Hoe about a plane, would that be international? (Of course depending on thr flight.)

OMG that is well strange.

Did he have any other side damages?

quote Crave

Did he have any other side damages?

If he was exposed before, that I will understand, English words will even appear all of a sudden when surpised or the individual we speak of is totally lost either physically or mentally. I teach Koreans whose idea of the English language is "Hi!" so that makes the human brain a wonderful specimen in school.

quote warrchylde

So if you get hit by a car, you'll learn a new language. How about a plane? (Maybe depending on the flight.)

So the building would learn HOW to speak then... hmmm... I better tell the military about this. (Dude, my dad's in the D.O.D.)

(Dude, me too).

Holy shit.

Can he still speak his own language fluently???

when i was 8 i fell off a shed roof blacked out, i woke up and could not help my self spelling out words like i was in a spelling competition. even words i could not write down. but i still spoke sentances using this method weird and the next day it went??? probably connected to the czech actually...strange what the human mind might be capable of. i heard a fact saying we use approx 1/4 of our brain power...