Dateline: Sri Lanka, August 6, 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigiriya
There I was climbing up the steps of this ancient heritage site: Sigiriya. At one of the stops to catch my breath, I was standing next to a French-speaking group when the local guide called out: Venez ici. Regardez! La statue de Buddha. Elle est plus grande! Imagine my excitement. I was able to understand what he was saying. Je peux comprenais! Bravo! 

A Coma Way to Speaking a Foreign Language

For most people, learning a new language incurs many hours of formal classroom lessons and daily practice of reading, writing, listening and speaking. In the case of a Croatian teenager, she awoke from a coma in 2010 to find that she had forgotten her native Croatian and spoke fluent German instead - a language she had just started learning in school.

I'm relearning French the hard way. I learnt the language in university a long time ago and I've forgotten most of it. Anyway, I still prefer learning it the hard way to speaking the language effortlessly after some traumatic experience. Anyway, there's no guarantee that one would speak a foreign language after waking up from a coma. Worse still, what if, instead of speaking French, I end up speaking a dead language like Latin!? Quid agis!