Englishman wakes up from stroke speaking fluent Welsh Mr Morgan, who is retired and lives with his wife Yvonne in Bathwick, Somerset, is now being taught to speak English again. I'd not lived in Wales since I was evacuated there during the war. Gradually the English words came back, but it wasn't easy," he said. Mr Morgan had been watching the lunchtime news when his wife noticed he was not responsive and called an ambulance. He was rushed into hospital where he spent three weeks being stabilised and assessed. Doctors diagnosed Mr Morgan with aphasia, a form of brain damage which causes a shift in the brain's language centre. He was helped by the Communication Support Service, run by the Stroke Association in Bath. In 2012 grandmother Kay Russell, 49, of Bishop Cleeve in Gloucestershire, suffered a migraine and began speaking in a French accent. Sarah Colwill, 35, of Plymouth, Devon, also suffered a migraine and began speaking with a Chinese accent. Doctors say they suffered Foreign Accent Syndrome, a condition which damages the part of the brain that controls speech and word formation. More than 150,000 people have a stroke every year in the UK, and a third end up with aphasia as a result.