Hearing voices in different languages?

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I only really know English (I know ~40 Spanish words because I live in a majority Hispanic area, so some of the language rubs off on me). I’d just be chilling in my bed and then all of a sudden I hear a bunch of Armenians speaking Russian. On another day, I heard a bunch of people speaking Spanish. I do not have very good Spanish, so I could not tell what they were saying. This is the first time I had heard hallucinations of people speaking in a different language (although I’ve had hallucinations for years). Anyone else ever had hallucinations like this??

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I heard a voice speak French once. That was weird. But not since.

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That’s funny because during a psychotic episode I started teaching my voices foreign languages. Instead of saying horrible things I taught them Spanish and French. My joke was that they speak to me in sign language, which I barely remember, to quiet them down.

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Apparently they’ve learned a lot from you then. I think the voice I heard speaking French was mimicking something it heard on TV one day. Kind like a parrot.

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I’ve been diagnosed with sz for about 3 years, having the symptoms much longer. One of my voices (an older, proper male) speaks primarily in Portuguese. Keep this in mind, I know ZERO Portuguese. I happen to know it’s a real language and not gibberish because I’ve Google translated a phrase he uses often. It was definitely Portuguese. I thought this was abnormal but I wasn’t sure…

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That sounds bizarre. If it was truly another language and you do not even know the language.
My voices were German sometimes but I was born there so I know a bit.

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I am bilingual, but I rarely hear voices in Korean. I think it’s because I speak English mainly.

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When I started hearing voices in America in 1998/9 I had voices in English, but nowadays I have voices in Finnish.

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TRIGGER Warning: That is bizarre, the illness in me says that it is the voice of whoever is doing that to you. How can the brain know a language you’ve never even heard of before

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Were the Americans definitely speaking Russian?? Did you google some Russian phrases or something?

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Ive recently heard a conversation in Japanese. I dont know any Japanese I don’t even watch anime.

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