A mum woke up with a Russian accent and says strangers think that she’s faking it. Tara Livingston says she went to sleep sounding like herself and woke up sounding like she was from Russia . The 56-year-old suffered a stroke in November 2023, which left her with aphasia and apraxia of speech – conditions that affect language and the ability to form words. She began intensive speech therapy and slowly started relearning how to talk. But in February 2024, after undergoing a small surgical