Kid Wakes Up From Coma Speaking Mandarin

According to australia s network 10 ben mcmahon.
Kid wakes up from coma speaking mandarin. Mcmahon awoke from his coma with the ability to speak near perfect mandarin reports ij review. Growing up in australia ben mcmahon learned french and mandarin but was never fluent in them. Now he has found love on one of two special australian episodes of the show which airs on sbs2 on monday night with sydney lawyer feng guo.
Most of it s hazy but when i woke up seeing a chinese nurse i thought i. When he woke from a coma his parents said he spoke exclus. Rueben nsemoh stopped breathing several times after being kicked in the head during a soccer game.
Doctors said he would be lucky if he survived. Here s where the story takes a turn for the bizarre. In 2012 he was in a car accident which left him comatose for a week.
When he woke up he could only speak fluent mandarin. The now 22 year old student was suddenly speaking and writing in mandarin due to a phenomenon known as foreign language syndrome. An australian student who woke up from a weeklong coma able to speak fluent mandarin is now a budding community tv star.
He beat the odds and woke up but oddly he only spoke mandarin and couldn t speak english. Ben mcmahon went into a coma due to a terrible motor vehicle accident two years ago. About 17 months ago a debilitating car crash left melbourne native ben.
His family was fearing the worst but ben woke up a few days later. He could also write in mandarin. His parents were overjoyed to hear that their son was going to be okay but they were equally shocked.