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nice one :D

Hahaha you make my day

Gönn dir 😂

Thomas K 😂😂😂

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I laughed way harder than I expected.

This comment was edited bcz people dont get the fact that its not serious.

its no longer communist. you need to read more, dumb dumb. stop watching useless crap like youtube

my comment wasn't serious lol

...hmmm only the people allowed to make decisions are communist

lol true

Honestly, would be just as interesting of a story.

He said that for the first three days, he only spoke Mandarin, so title is not lying.

😂😂😂😂

The title was written like that to click bait people

Dam get that nurse a metal

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@@bradcha5413 what kind? i like myself some aluminum

​@@jesuki Platinum, perhaps.

@@henryspiers8578oh god it would be a nightmare to wake me up from a coma, Swedish english German Romanian and I’d probably throw in Spanish words and maybe even Latin if I forget a word in the other languages. Yea it wouldn’t be fun but at least I’m not fluent in German and Romanian and under.

This…now this makes a lot of sense! Great theory

I think we're very good at storing at lot of information but not so good at recovering it. For example, there are many things that I've forgotten that I'm able to recall if I see a photo, hear a song, go to a particular place or hear a name.

It makes a lot of sense but, he only learnt basic mandarin right?

@@koriandr7731 perhaps he was exposed to a lot of mandarin during the basic fluency class but only consciously learned a little bit of it, like the above comment said. I think this to be reasonably possible based on my own experience learning mandarin. After all, when learning a new language, you often can understand much better before u can speak!

Well damn…..wonder if one day I’ll wake up speaking French because I can’t recall much of that French at all 😂

He was Spanish in a past incarnation.

Woooow!

Wow that's interesting..Yeah subconscious is really mesmerizing.Wish we could use it.

Wow, that's crazy! You're right about the subconscious mind. So mysterious... it's like we have a possibly super genius capacity in our brains that picks up on everything in a way that can't be retained or used consciously -- same as how your subconscious mind must have picked up on the Turkish language, its context, structure, grammar, and all that over time and connected it in a way that made sense while your concious mind still couldn't understand it. Kind of reminds me of a movie with Bradley Cooper called "Limitless" or something, where a special pill allowed him to use his brain to the fullest extent, gathering, learning, retaining, and calculating everything super quickly.

That’s pretty interesting

Yeah me too. I lived in korea for a short period and speak a little korean. One night i dreamed about talking to my korean friends.they all speak fluent korean in my dream. Seems so real. I couldnt event construct one single sentence.

LMAO !

You see those Filipino ladies? I think they like me! I'll kick you in the balls and see if you can understand them.

😂

Why'd he kick you in the nads 😂

Jokes like this make me teste.

me too!!

There is a woman who worked at Walmart and has 4 kids, her mom dreamed up the numbers and gave her the lotto ticket and bam she won 188 million dollars. She doesn't know how to say no and spends spends spends and has already bailed out her drug dealing boyfriend out of jail 3 times which cost her 22 million. What I'm trying to get at is God or whoever whatever decides the money fate simply just doesn't give a fuck who it is and what they'll do with it. If it ain't a dummy it's and old couple who still want to go to work everyday lol.

YESS!! LOL!

Gonk That story sounds like complete BS.

Bhanu Tez 😂

nice correction

klvInz Vin after taking mandarin as a second lenguaje in school. bull.c.r.a.p.

+My Tiny House in a Big City you cant even speak fluent English

Woven Spade​, you know what, after snooping through your page I realized I will be arguing with a nine year old. So go on with your life kid. Good bye.

My Tiny House in a Big City um.. i just made a joke, and even though it doesnt matter, im not nine, im 13 and why does that matter.

Cool

+Li MOLLY plot twist: the two changed soul

i wanna see that story instead.

It's "English", not engrish

There are some people waking up from coma and say they've been to heaven (the Christian one) and make a lot of money.

ahahhah

you mean he need to go back in coma to restart?

@@yuchenko8732 dude just dont question it. It was a comment not a question

Lol

hi 6 years later

how is it misleading, it did not say that he couldn't speak it before, it just said that he woke up speaking chinese

The interesting part is that his brain prioritized Mandarin as his native language. When this happens I'm sure you'll learn even faster. This needs to be studied imo.

It is certainly facinating

there is someone in my country malaysia who always watch korean dramas later woke up speaking korean fluently. but she lost it few days later.

because he's not fluent 我可以讲普通话

Hi Moxie, how have your Danish journey been so far? I'm a native but some of my foreign friends are learning Danish (but struggling quite a lot)

It's been pretty good so far! I've been learning on Duolingo for about 2 years, but I haven't been very consistent, so I feel like I haven't progressed as much as I could have if I'd stuck with it all the way. I'm starting to feel comfortable creating original sentences, but I can still only talk about basics, like introducing myself and using simple verbs and adjectives to talk about animals, food, and other people. Jeg elsker dansk, det er en smukt sprog!

Danish ain't easy to learn, but it seems like you have come far until now, keep up the good work ;)

+jimmellecarnegie No, he learnt it to a basic level in high school. Then when he was in a coma you usually get looked after by 2 nurses (rotating 12 hours), 1 of the nurses looking after him probably spoke in Mandarin and watched Mandarin shows while he was in the coma which would of triggered in it his head. So when he woke up and saw the Chinese lady after he was exposed to that Mandarin it was natural for his brain to use it. He didn't wake up fluent though. I'm pretty sure he's the host of LearnChineseNow, so now he's fluent.

+jimmellecarnegie He learned plenty of the language as a high school student, but I think that small amount of brain damage (plus, as THISGUY said, a Mandarin-speaking nurse) turned Mandarin into his default language when he woke up. I've reached the level in Mandarin in which I think this could happen to me if I were to suddenly find myself in a Mandarin-speaking household; you can suddenly piece it all together and understand it.

Amat Gotchi I wish it happened to me, in a way...

"At most, the coma helped him pull it all together and learn quickly." I think this is precisely what happened.

I was looking for some explanation of this thing on the internet, but this case is not what I expected. This guy already knew some Mandarin, and had Chinese speaking nurses. I have a real case , a Turkish woman, goes into coma, no background of the language, no nurses no bs, she starts speaking ukranian (russian) all of a sudden, and she is fluent.

Correct !!

agree

There's also a man who woke from a coma speaking fluent Swedish who had not studied the language at all prior to being in a coma.

Why is that bullshit?? The title says he wakes up from a come speaking Mandarin, it doesn't say he couldn't speak it before!!

Dude... I could very well get a whole news crew to my house and tell them that I woke up from a coma speaking English... it's nothing special that he can speak chinese after a coma given that he has learnt it before, as many people do regain their cognitive abilities after a coma.

Minita Bathija Don't destroy his childhood.

Minita Bathija Savage😂😂😂😂

ᗷᒪEᗩᑕᕼEᗪ IᑕE ᑕᖇEᗩᗰ that must be sweet

I just melt...

So people that speak English can understand his journey. He seems like a likeable guy.

Michael M Oh yea, not saying he's not likable. The claim is he woke up and was able to speak Mandarin, but the only thing he says in Mandarin is something you'd learn on maybe your second day of learning the language.

what are you talking about, he says many other things in mandarin...

Miaoyun h Nah, I'm embarrassed though. I don't know how I made this happen but I guess I didn't get to the point where it shows him on the TV show. I had Chinese roommates for several years and have been to China several times, so I understand most of it. I guess I just had ADD that day. Something.

Miaoyun h I think he has a youtube channel where he teaches people chinese search for laowai ben hedges

+Yumeng Zhao which EU country has best speaking accent for Mandarin?

THISGUY Probably Canada

@@boyeonrhee336 >"EU country" >"Canada"

“for an Aussie" oh how nice of you to give him (and all Aussies) that compliment.

@@boyeonrhee336 nah might be uganda

Aussie are immigrants too, you not native

In Chinese, it is called 'borrowing a corpse for your soul to return to live'. Your soul went into the body of a Chinese man who has just passed away.

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what a comment!

They say it's your past life coming into contact with your new body or something you've heard for awhile.

wtf??

this is what I think as well.

I wanna have bubble tea

Meili Wang88 saaame. sigh. regret not continuing learning when i was younger.

+StJohnsSmythe how do they make a sleeper agents anyway, Im curious on that

i guess what's interesting that whenever he wants to express a thought verbally, Mandarin words come to mind instead of the Australian tongue

No singpop woowah

GodDesignNiesha, he said that he knew basic mandarin before hand.

Rachel J Nah eee sed eee didn know no chianamuns an eee only seen sum on telly...

KonstantinGeist exactly

Bari M.N. hahaha you're funny. who knows right?

celest s agree!

If I did it, yo can too!

Same

J'espère que tu l'as eu...

+Dan Frederiksen Japan Times: "He learnt some Mandarin in high school and later traveled in China and studied in Beijing."

It'a far from being the only tone language coupled to the fact that there's no grammar to speak of, most words are 1 syllable, verb tenses don't change, there is no masculine, feminine, verbs never change endings all make Mandarin and other forms of Chinese fairly easy languages to learn. What complicates the language is the writing system. With Pinyin ( Romanized script for writing Chinese) it becomes one of the easiest languages to learn. If you check for the most difficult languages to learn for English speakers, Chinese in any of it's forms, never makes the list.

German is easy? 😅

But no Chinese babies ever complaint that learning Mandarin is difficult...

​​​@@jaimekaimero2912coming from a tonal Sino Tibetan language speaker Chinese doesn't sound difficult to my ear. Cuz I speak two tonal languages and have been hearing tonal all my life so it's pretty basic for tonal add speakers to be able to differentiate tones

Ya mean that...youre turning Japanese, youre turning Japanese, you really think so????

@@andrewhammel8218 I don't think she meant that, Andrew.

I believe that this phenomena has something to do with past lives, as we haven't always returned as people of the same ethnicity, we have had lives as other ethnic groups, and as different sexes; and of various other life forms. All previous lives lived leave an impression on the soul, somehow the person inadvertently accessed that information from his soul during his coma

@@EclesysGalaxy 😄 I’m pretty sure he’s referring to this famous 80s hit song “Turning Japanese” by the ... B-52s?

Perhaps one could achieve similar with electroconvulsion.

+NangongReng1973 is that a joke or are you actually being serious ? :/ past lives? ahahahaha

+NangongReng1973 ASSCREED DNA MEMORY CONFIRMED AS PLAUSIBLE.

In his past life he was the chinese great mao zedong.

+NangongReng1973 no, it's not his past life. Some chinese ghost/soul took control of the vacant body (intetional or not). Just like in manga bois

+NangongReng1973 There is such a thing as Foreign Accent Syndrome. It's rare, (I've heard about 60 cases world-wide) where people have brain damage and wake up speaking with a foreign accent. I think that's also due to reincarnated people using past life memory to help them recover their language skills. There's also the case of Czech Matej Kus who spoke perfect English (temporarily) when he hit his head.

If this guy had no prior exposure to Mandarin, this wouldn't just be a "story of note". It would be a miracle.

Ahh yes finally found the expert in the comments. Sure, happens all the time that someone wakes up from a coma and is suddenly fluent in a language that they only could stutter some basic sentences in before. Or it must have all been faked, of course. Internet superheroes!

@@chunye215 You forgot the sarcasm emoji...

the title is perfectly accurate, ot doesnt say anything about being fleunt, or more fluent

***** Upper intermediate? Your high schools must be really good, or require more than they do here. Most graduates can barely communicate basic survival skills here, though if they took the two years at the start of their high school years (spending their last two years without studying the language), probably even less. I had to study way beyond the scope of my courses in my free time outside of school to get beyond utter basics.

Probably his English also wasn’t interfering with his brain’s access to what it learned about mandarin. Just not having tha interference would probably help with fluency to some extent

@@eundongpark1672 Oh, that's a good point! If he had partial amnesia which included English, then his forgotten knowledge of English would not be interfering with his basic knowledge of Mandarin, thus aiding his fluency. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they were stored in two different portions of his brain. His native English of course would've been in the language center, but the learned Mandarin could've been stored in memory where other learned or memorized stuff is stored. And only the language center was injured, leaving the Mandarin to dominate. The brain is so fascinating!

TiedyeVikki that’s a good point too. I know when I was learning Spanish, I could almost feel the difference in how it felt to speak when I was moving from studying it and recalling it from memory to just simply having it there when I wanted to say something. I definitely felt like it moved in my head. It also meant I just FELT when my word choices/ expressions were too English, even when I didn’t particularly have a way to say it more “spanishly”. Instead “knowing” the spanish language, I moved to having the “skill” of the Spanish language (if you get what I mean”) But for the mandarin-speaking Aussie kid, my hypothesis is that whatever removed the English also having the effect of freeing his brain to focus on the available mandarin knowledge. If you think about little kids learning anything (not just language), they just absorb it without “rules” interfering. So if they are trying to speak they’re not constructing an English sentence and then sorting thru their knowledge of mandarin to find words, grammar or expressions to match the English. Instead they just look at the mandarin they know and how to build meaning using the available language tools. I think this is why in language class, at a certain stage, they get students to say the same meaning in different ways, to find other words to say the same thing...it’s about exercising the skill of flexibly navigating your way through meaning to work around the gaps in your knowledge, but also helping you loosen your attachment to the gramatical structures of your native language (I think).

Nicholas Bennett true

yet he is full of bs

In the United States, Spanish is the second language of choice, since our neighbors to the south mostly speak Spanish. In Australia, I’d assume that Chinese would be the second language taught.

@@LoyaFrostwind Spanish is spoken in many parts of the world. Chinese would give you great employment opportunities.

haha. 小鲜肉~~

MrSiomys what?

"juicy fresh meat"... a Chinese slang indicating a young boy who's soooo cute that you even want to give him a bite.

He’s pretty average

Your English doesn't seem that fluent to me, buddy.

“Fluently” is a lie if your brain blocks the other 3. I speak 3 languages and don’t struggle switching between any of them. My level in French is quite high but I’d hesitate to say I’m fluent. People just like to say “fluent” and don’t even know what that means.

@@user-ed7pu5uj3q Even as a dumb American, this English is fluent enough I had to read through it a second time to find the mistakes. I do hiring as a large component of my job and I would consider this fluent. Fluency doesn't mean 100% accuracy, it means that the words are comprehensible and easy to understand. Our brains have the ability to fill in the rest.

​@Mavl NT Besides, you need to hear someone speak to assess fluency I reckon

There is a phenomenon called 'Lucid Dreaming': you are dreaming, and you are fully aware of the fact that what you are experiencing is a dream. It can probably be used for problem solving (life's real problems) or for having a richer life. You can probably find books on this subject in your local library.

Czech you meant?

@@indonesianstudent88 I suppose they’re the same? It was Bohemia when my grandfather was a child, when his parents immigrated. There were parts of Bohemia that spoke German, but I believe my family was from Prague that apparently spoke Czech. I always heard it called Bohemia by my family.

I've heard Dyslexia is good for holidays just be careful with the road signs.

wise man!

@@happy20120808 why thank you!

wtf

I woke up from an operation to get my Appendix out and guess what? There were dragons in the kitchen!

+Tomo Dachi what was his story on the dating show? Also, yeah. No way this could happen.

+Tomo Dachi Pretty sure he went on the dating show afterwards because of the fluency. The truth is he has been learning mandarin before the car crash and he is claiming the car crash allowed him to gain better mastery of the language.

+ycafe123 - I agree with you.. although we should also remember that tv shows get people to change their stories allll the time, so nothing really new there at least.

Vodka Omg I also feel the same way about Korean lmao

Vodka uk so youre considered bilingual if youre native in one and learning another? i thought if youre legit fluent in 2. as in accent fluency and all.

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HAHAHA

awwww... don't be so jelly cuz you can speak but receive no extra love.

Ho Chi Min or Ho Min Chi

He was recognizing it as his native language.

Amanda The Bean No, his brain just temporarily became unable to access the areas associated with English.

It's the writing part that scares me. You have to know,what is it, 3000 symbols to be considered literate?

It's like any language there is in the world, you just need to be able to recognize certain characters, or as you put it, symbols in order to form words or sentence structures. You can't say something is hard just because people think it's hard and have never tried learning it. In all honesty, even the Chinese people think that their characters are so complex that they introduced "Simplified" ones to ease up the learning process for its people. But learning the more "traditional" characters, in a way, will make you understand and at the same time visualize these characters, making the learning experience more enjoyable. Why do people get scared to things they're unfamiliar of? It's just human nature I guess.

"foreigner" is a misnomer.

No, you can’t. You need to have other skills. You don’t get paid just for being able to speak.