"wow a white kid".... racist lol

I've heard about this phenomenon long time ago but I still don't understand how that happens, unlike this boy, there are cases where a person in a coma wakes up speaking fluently a language they have never been exposed to, and not being able to speak or understand their native tongue at all, this boy has a mild case compared to some of the other similar cases.

#1 dont you know only white people can be racist.. oh.. did I say that..

#2 Never happened. No one has ever woken from a coma speaking a language he or she had never been exposed to before. It's conceivable that such a person might have completely forgotten the exposure (we're talking about serious brain damage here), but it's hardly unlikely that prevarication to generate interest is the explanation.

I'll just have to get by with English....and cockney :-/

#1 thats ok he said "white" he did not say a shady colour

I always wondered the origin of other languages. Now it makes sense.....head injury!

looks more like a "fas" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

Maybe a reincarnated chinese?!

#4 The brain has default preferred standards for everything from preferred language to preferred ice cream flavor to preferred cursed word to describe a terrible driver.

If rationalizing about it can change those standards over time, I don't see why brain injury can't.

PS. Obviously, exposure is required. There is no such thing as learning a completely new language by hitting your head on wall.

He might haven't been as fluent in Mandarin before the coma, but obviously he already knew a lot. While sleeping, the brain does a lot of optimization, so I guess a week of coma was well enough to get the language sorted out in his mind.