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Sometimes, bad things really happen for a reason. 22-year old Australian car accident victim Ben McMahon woke up from a long-term coma two years ago and started speaking fluent Chinese. The fact that he survived the terrible car crash in Melbourne was already a miracle, when he approached the Chinese nurse in Mandarin and obviously surprised everybody. Now he is a popular TV star in China.
Ben went a long way from struggling to survive after the car-accident left him in a coma at rehab, to being a host of a Mandarin TV program. When he finally regained consciousness his brain simply decided to use Mandarin instead of English. “Most of it’s hazy, but when I woke up seeing a Chinese nurese, I thought I was in China. It was like my brain was in one place but my body was in another,” Ben recalled.
According to the Asian nurse who was attending the Australian, his first words upon waking up were: “Excuse me nurse, I feel really sore here.” Moreover, he even wrote a message in Mandarin script that he loves his parents and that he will recover. Of course his relatives and all the doctors were stupefied by Ben’s condition.
Even though he learnt Mandarin at school and even traveled to Beijing before the accident, the fellow claims he never mastered the language.
Point is, the accident completely changed his life, as Ben has conducted Chinese tours of his hometown Melbourne, and even got the opportunity to become a TV star. As we speak, he is hosting a Mandarin TV program called “Au My Ga” that explains Australian culture to Chinese expats. In fact, according to an interview he took for The Feed, Ben is dreaming some day he could turn to a diplomatic career in China.
According to the Asian nurse who was attending the Australian, his first words upon waking up were: “Excuse me nurse, I feel really sore here.” Moreover, he even wrote a message in Mandarin script that he loves his parents and that he will recover. Of course his relatives and all the doctors were stupefied by Ben’s condition.
Even though he learnt Mandarin at school and even traveled to Beijing before the accident, the fellow claims he never mastered the language.
Point is, the accident completely changed his life, as Ben has conducted Chinese tours of his hometown Melbourne, and even got the opportunity to become a TV star. As we speak, he is hosting a Mandarin TV program called “Au My Ga” that explains Australian culture to Chinese expats. In fact, according to an interview he took for The Feed, Ben is dreaming some day he could turn to a diplomatic career in China.
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