Jaishankar was married to his first wife Shobha until she succumbed to cancer. The two had met while studying at JNU.[82] Later, he married Kyoko, who is of Japanese origin[83] whom he met while working in the Indian embassy in Japan. They have two sons, Dhruva and Arjun, and a daughter, Medha.[84] He speaks Russian, English, Tamil, Hindi, conversational Japanese, Chinese and some Hungarian