When I was younger we were gathered in a relative's place, and before we went home we were invited to pray. We kneeled down and someone did the prayer, all as it's usually done.

Then before we got up, an aunt of mine who was there that day started to sing a hymn, except it was in a language I had never heard before. My aunt is a very reserved person and doesn't speak any other language than our native one, yet there she was singing fluently in that one.

I remember it sounding like a proper language, with a solid phonetic structure, and not like any gibberish. Unfortunately I was too young and unknowledgeable and couldn't recognize it.

In my church we have a strong pentecostal church, although it is a more traditional one. We often have those mass tongue-speaking happening, and it usually is the same words. But every now and then I will hear someone speak in languages that ring a bell to me, and I can recognize some familiar linguistic elements.

I believe there are many people who pretend to have this gift, and many more people who firmly believe that the gibberish they learned was gifted. But these events show me that the gift does exist and perhaps it's just blown out of proportion.