Ben McMahon reportedly woke up from a coma and found he could speak fluent Mandarin (Picture: The Project/Channel Ten/YouTube) |
Being in a
coma for week was reportedly a fast track method of learning Mandarin for this
young man.
Ben
McMahon, from Melbourne, Australia, would have been happy to just wake up
following a serious car crash but he also apparently found he was able to speak
the foreign language.
After
writing down the words ‘I love my mum, I love my dad, I will recover,’ in the
Chinese dialect, the 22-year-old went on to exclusively speak it for the next
few days.
‘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.
McMahon’s
new language skills were reportedly triggered when he saw an ‘Asian looking’
nurse at the hospital he was recuperating at.
Although he
learned Mandarin at school, he was never fluent in it.
He has
since gone on to present a TV show in Mandarin and has also relocated to
Shanghai.
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