Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif might be considering a crash course in Russian next after his difficulties in putting on translation earphones during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Samarkand. The comical scenes made it to US late-night show with host and comedian Jimmy Fallon mocking the Pakistani premier.

““That guy is the leader of 220 million people,” said Fallon at the end of the 35-second clip he played in his eponymous The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The show runs on weeknights and has an average audience of around 1.3 million viewers.

In the video, which has been shared widely on Pakistani Twitter including by rivals of the PML-N led coalition government, the prime minister can be seen struggling with the translation headset even as Putin starts speaking.

He is then helped by a uniformed assistant to but on the earphones as a bemused Putin looks on. As soon as Putin starts speaking, the headset pops out.

The video shared by Fallon didn’t contain any audio, and was punctuated with laughter from his on-set audience.

Among those to retweet the video was one Twitter user who pointed out that how the fumbles with the earphones/headsets could be the reason why the premier knows so many languages.

Only recently, the government of Pakistan’s Twitter account shared a video of the PM in conversation with rescued German tourists in Swat in their own language.

During his trip to Saudi Arabia as well, he spoke to his hosts in Arabic.

According to his focal person for digital media, Muhammad Abu Bakar Umar, the premier knows a total of ten languages.

He told a local publication that PM Shehbaz Sharif is fluent in German, Arabic and English along with Punjabi and Urdu. He can speak basic level Turkish, Chinese, Russian, Pashtu and Sindhi.

The linguistic ‘genius’ of the premier led to a host of comments on social media, including one referencing popular HBO show Game of Thrones.