A rare condition in which patients develop speech patterns perceived as a foreign accent that is different from their native accent, even though they did not acquire it in the place of origin of the perceived accent. Foreign accent syndrome usually results from a stroke but can also develop due to traumatic brain injury, migraine, or developmental problems.The condition can occur due to lesions in the brain’s speech-forming network or can also be considered a neuropsychiatric disease.The condition was first described in 1907, and between 1941 and 2009, 62 cases were reported. Its symptoms are caused by impaired articulatory planning and coordination, and although popular news articles often attempt to identify the closest regional accent, carriers of foreign accent syndrome do not acquire a specific foreign accent or any additional fluency in the foreign language. There was not a single confirmed case of improvement in a patient’s foreign language skills after a traumatic brain injury.