I Forgot English 😨 — Transcript

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1. 0:00I woke up one day, and for some reason,
2. 0:01I understood a new language I'd never
3. 0:03spoken before. But when I went
4. 0:04downstairs, my whole family was speaking
5. 0:06it, too. I tried [music] to ask, "What's
6. 0:08going on?" But suddenly, my dad started
7. 0:10laughing. I was confused and asked
8. 0:11again, but my family laughed even
9. 0:13harder. I grabbed a notepad from the
10. 0:14counter to write what was happening, but
11. 0:16my pen only wrote the new language. I
12. 0:17started panicking and pointed at my
13. 0:19tongue, but my brother asked if I was
14. 0:20doing a stand-up routine in the new
15. 0:22language. I sprinted out of the house in
16. 0:23tears. [music] I got to school hoping
17. 0:25someone would tell me what's going on,
18. 0:26but every classmate and teacher was
19. 0:28speaking the same new language. I asked
20. 0:29my best friend, "Why does everyone speak
21. 0:31like this?" But she just stared at me
22. 0:32and responded, [music] "Speak like
23. 0:34what?" in the new language. The
24. 0:35announcement crackled in a new language,
25. 0:37and when the teacher explained
26. 0:38Pythagoras theorem in the new language,
27. 0:39I [music] broke down sobbing. The
28. 0:41teacher said something, but all I heard
29. 0:42was "Schmoersch fickel van sackt." The
30. 0:44worst part was I understood [music] her.
31. 0:46I was convinced I was in a nightmare and
32. 0:47just started screaming. My teacher's
33. 0:49eyes went wide, and she ran out into the
34. 0:51hallway. A few minutes later, paramedics
35. 0:52walked [music] in and put me on a
36. 0:53stretcher. They drove me to the
37. 0:55hospital, where doctors ran tests on me,
38. 0:57all talking to me in the new language.
39. 0:58They looked at each other concerned, and
40. 1:00when [music] I begged them to explain, a
41. 1:01doctor put his hand on my shoulder and
42. 1:03said, "Get in flukt shmish pocks." I
43. 1:04felt a needle in my arm, and everything
44. 1:06went black. I woke up 15 hours later,
45. 1:08sedated and in pain, [music] and when I
46. 1:10looked in the mirror, I noticed a huge
47. 1:11scar on my head. My family was around my
48. 1:13bed, and when I asked [music] them,
49. 1:15"What happened?" I realized I was
50. 1:16speaking English again. My mom grabbed
51. 1:18my hand and started crying, [music] and
52. 1:19said, "We were always speaking English,
53. 1:21honey." She told me I had a brain tumor
54. 1:22no one knew about pressing on my
55. 1:24language center that [music] was making
56. 1:25me think I was hearing and speaking
57. 1:26gibberish when it was just English. The
58. 1:28doctors had just operated it out of me.
59. 1:30I was in shock and asked her,
60. 1:31>> [music]
61. 1:31>> "So, when I told you 'bish grunk foo'
62. 1:33this morning, what did I actually say?"
63. 1:34She replied, "You asked 'What's for
64. 1:36breakfast?' [music] You never said 'bish
65. 1:37grunk foo'."