John Hanson - An American who speaks fluent Urdu

John Hanson is an American who works for IMF and lives in Washington DC. He is fluent in more than 15 languages, Urdu is one of them. He visited Pakistan at the age of 19 and became interested to learn Urdu.

Video Courtesy: Voice of America

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[aim786]

its not just he speaks it, he doesnt have an accent and most native speakers need to use english to make their point. However his knowledge of the language is pretty extensive. Its pretty impressive.

[xtremeownage2]

Urdu being a very beautiful language, we should take its benefit and not mix it with English!

[CountNadir]

@xtremeownage2 totally agree bro. We are ruining our own language and we need to stop :-(

[faha1ali]

ye ek afsos ki baat hai ke kisi ne URDU ME COMMENT NAHI DALA. (iT IS A PITY PEOPLE HAVEN'T COMMENTED IN URDU HERE

[whitemanstand72]

WOW ! just Wow but the their are some sub continent people who can speak in good English so why nota white man from the west speak good Urdu with good accent

Well done really proud !

[brotherkantutta]

Lesson to learn is,

" be proud of your language."

If you are proud of you language, other will respect your language.

[amer1588]

Love you man .................

[MrMotivating]

He is really very nice person and speaks urdu very fluently

[MiTuShQaA]

Amazing

[LailaLegendary]

I am impressed and happy to see he likes Urdu so much.

[haider5555]

thats the point ....not every stone is Diamond....