Picking up a completely new language can be one hell off a job. Remember your ‘Sanskrit’ classes in school? Yes, we had struggled to form a proper sentence even after a whole year of teaching.
But then, not everyone is as blessed as this Bengaluru cab driver, whose impeccable Sanskrit speaking skills have taken the internet by storm.
In a video going viral, the driver can be seen conversing with the rider in pure Sanskrit. While he had a lovely smile on his face all the while, his words were as fluent as they could be.
It is widely known that people in South India love their mother tongue wholeheartedly and hardly speak in any other language. However, this man is surely an exception.
The video was shared on Twitter by a user named Girish Bharadwaja.
Here is the video:
Sanskrit speaking cab driver in Bengaluru🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/2Kc5tRrnzU
— Girish Bharadwaj | ಗಿರೀಶ್ ಭಾರದ್ವಾಜ (@Girishvhp) June 11, 2019
Twitter was impressed by the cabbie’s strong command over the language and flooded the post with positive comments.
Nice conversation…
How fluent ….nice— PRASANN KULKARNI (@imprasann1) June 12, 2019
Wow…
I thought I had forgotten the language which I learnt in school for 5 years
I could understand the conversation!!!
— Anil P Joseph (@Anil4Joseph) June 12, 2019
😍how I wish to learn to speak in fluent Sanskrit.
— Meenakshi Sharan (@meenakshisharan) June 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/Vrishnivansh/status/1138804014261215232
— Dewali Deb (@dewali_de) June 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/Marwadi_gujju/status/1138783116158525440
Really awesome sir. Great sir. Actually now a days people are feeling shy to speak in their own language but speaking sanskrit that fluently is really great and Happy to see this. I also know sanskrit but not as fluent as him. Really feeling Happy after seeing this.
— Shailaja Yettari (@SYettari) June 14, 2019
UNBELIEVABLE! Great!
— Sparrow (@SparrowSimha) June 12, 2019
Get this man a shield.
— Pradeep (@Deepu5_11) June 12, 2019
Wow. That sounds beautiful. I hope the schools taught Sanskrit with so that it could be used as a spoken language. Although I studied Sanskrit for a while in my school, but could never imagine speaking in the language. May be the teaching pattern is flawed or I had a raw deal.
— Soothsayer (@Self_Plagiarism) June 13, 2019
Excellent ,God bless him , I think schools shud intro Sanskrit. In curriculum
— Ushagopal (@Ushagopal5) June 12, 2019
🙏to cab driver for our heritage and language skills
— Murali krishna (@MancheelaMurali) June 13, 2019
Phew. I wish I had taken my third language classes a bit seriously!