Updated July 15th, 2019 at 22:55 IST
WATCH: US Ice-cream shop employee takes internet by storm with his flawless Telugu, customers left speechless
The number of Telugu-speaking engineers in Silicon Valley seemed to have seeped across the country, with a video of fluent Telugu-speaking American icecream shop employee - Isaac Richards from Montana in Utah, US, taking the internet by the storm recently
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The number of Telugu-speaking engineers in Silicon Valley seemed to have seeped across the country, with a video of fluent Telugu-speaking American icecream shop employee - Isaac Richards from Montana in Utah, US, taking the internet by the storm recently.
Montana's Telugu speaking Ice cream shop employee:
The video shared by Facebook user Ganesh Kesana starts with Richards welcoming his Indian (Telugu speaking) customers to the Haagen Dazs ice cream shop saying," Speak in Telugu, not English. How everyone is doing in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana doing?"
When asked by his surprised audience about how he knows Telugu so fluently, he replies saying:
"I really like the Telugu language. I have lived for two years in Andhra Pradesh - Vijayawada and Vishakapatnam. Andhra Pradesh naa gundello undhi (My heart is for AP forever)."
Here is the video:
Richards explains his flawless Telugu:
Following the now-viral Facebook post, Richards himself took Facebook to clarify the origins of his fluent Telugu.
He says, " A guy called Ganesh uploaded a video on Facebook. I was shocked to see how me speaking Telugu was amusing for people. News channels got a few details wrong when they reported about the video. I am not from New Zealand, I am from the USA. I visited Andhra Pradesh between 2016 and 2018. That is when I learnt Telugu. I love Telugu. I was shocked at the number of people who watched my video."
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Here is his explanation in Telugu:
While World Economic Forum ranked the Telugu community as the fastest growing community in the US in 2018 with a surge of 86%—the largest uptick in a foreign language-speaking group, covering almost 400,000 people speaking it, a US-born American learning the language is truly rare.
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Published July 15th, 2019 at 22:27 IST
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