Teen Slips Into Coma After Injury, Wakes Up Speaking Perfect Spanish

Reuben Nsemoh was severely injured during a soccer skirmish in Gwinnet County, Georgia. After suffering from a severe concussion, his third, the 16-year-old fell into a three-day coma.

When he awoke, he did something he had never done a day in his life — Nsemoh spoke fluent Spanish, according to WSB.

Nsemoh is part of a soccer team that travels and competes on an elite level. While he was playing the goalie position, another player kicked him in the head in front of the goal. The blow nearly ended his life.

His coach, Bruno Kalonji, was horrified. “I was in shock and panic. He will start coming back, then he will throw up. It was a sequence of things that I’ve never seen, it was bad,” he told WSB.

Fortunately, Nsemoh survived the ordeal, and was recovering at home. When he first awoke, he had lost all of his English, and could only communicate in his newfound language. Eventually, his Spanish faded and his English returned, although he retained a good portion of the Spanish vocabulary.

He believes that he subconsciously accessed the conversations his brother had with his friends, who are all fluent in Spanish, and utilized that.

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