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Girl Wakes From Coma Speaking New Language A Crotian teenager from the southern town of Knin awoke from a 24-hour coma speaking fluent German. She had been studying the language in school and watching television programs in German but was just a beginner. The case is so unusual that experts are being called in to examine the girl, but it isn't the first time something like this has happened. "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-sometimes even the Biblical languages such as that spoken in old Babylon or Egypt," psychiatric expert Dr. Mijo Milas told the Daily Telegraph. In the past, though, they were called miracles. Dr. Milas is hoping to find a "logical explanation." "You never know when recovering from such a trauma how the brain will react," hospital director Dujomir Marasovic told the Daily Telegraph. "Obviously we have some theories although at the moment we are limited in what we can say because we have to respect the privacy of the patient." The girl is communicating with her parents through an interpreter. Read original story in The Daily Telegraph | Friday, April 16, 2010
