Following Car Crash, Australian Man Wakes Up from Coma Speaking Mandarin

Australian Man Wakes Up From Coma Speaking Mandarin (Washington Free Beacon)

An Australian man woke up from a coma speaking fluent Mandarin and no longer able to speak English.

According to Australia’s Network 10, Ben McMahon was involved in a car crash that left him in a coma for more than a week.

In 2012, a horrifying car crash left the Melbourne man in a coma for more than a week. When he finally did wake up, he wasn’t speaking English.

“I kind of slowly came out of the coma,” said McMahon, now 22, “and then set eyes upon an Asian looking nurse and then the first thing that came was natural was to come out and say in Chinese, ‘Excuse me nurse, I feel really sore here,’” which Ben said in fluent Mandarin.