Topic: Australian Man Wakes Up From Coma Speaking Perfect Chinese Instead Of English

Two years ago Ben McMahon, pictured above, woke up from a coma more than a week after a horrific car crash that almost claimed his life only being able to speak Mandarin.

The 22-year-old remembers how 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 sudden new-found language skills baffled his doctors as well as his parents.

Ben's father, Mark, and his mother were told it would be a miracle if their son survived.

'We got the call from the hospital and [the hospital staff member] was saying "Oh Mark, look I just wanted to ring and let you know that Ben's actually started to come out of the coma"...and she said, “I don’t know how to say this...he's speaking Mandarin',"

Mark told Channel 10's The Project.

'Neither of us can speak Mandarin so we just nodded but deep down quite concerned about what’s going on.'

Ben's parents