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“People’s faces automatically light up when you speak to them in their language. There is better respect and understanding between us…I got inspired by that,” he said.
Doctor Hussain
Hussain was studying to become a doctor in his native Pakistan. But when his wife was diagnosed with a heart condition, he had to find a way to pay for her medical expenses. Which meant moving to Dubai to become a taxi driver.
He’s now been a taxi driver for 9 years and picked up the languages through his work.
“The toughest to learn has been Russian and Chinese. I cannot read or write Chinese, but I can speak it. The Russian script is not too difficult. I write the sentences in Urdu in notebooks and memorise them. I learnt Tagalog and Malayalam by speaking to my passengers.”
You Hussain are an absolute legend and we’d love to be lucky enough to get in your cab one of these days.