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	Podcast:		Outlook
	Episode:		The Australian who woke up speaking Mandarin
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:26:29
	Publish Date:		2020-05-30 16:32:00
	Description:		Ben McMahon from Melbourne, Australia, has had an unlikely career in Chinese reality TV after waking up from a coma speaking Mandarin. When he was 18 years old, Ben suffered a head injury during a car crash. During his early recovery he was unable to speak his native English, and could only communicate with confused doctors in Mandarin, a language he’d studied in high school. Ben regained his English but his Mandarin stayed strong and helped him secure a spot on a Chinese dating show he was obsessed with.
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