Aussie car crash coma victim wakes up in hospital speaking fluent CHINESE
An Australian man who woke from a week-long coma after a horrific car crash found he could only speak Mandarin.
English-speaking Ben McMahon, 22, says he woke up and saw a nurse who looked Asian standing by his bed and said to her, 'Excuse me nurse, I feel really sore here' in Chinese.
He then asked the nurse for a piece of paper and pen and he wrote on it in Mandarin: "I love my mum, I love my dad, I will recover."
His new-found language skills baffled his doctors and family.
Despite taking Mandarin at school, Ben had never been fluent at the language.
"I wasn't consciously thinking I was speaking Mandarin, it was what just came out and it was what was most natural to me," he said.
Inga Indi