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| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5883 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 1 of 5 13 March 2009 at 11:22pm | IP Logged |
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Since going out the Tamil Nadu this Christmas I've become ever more intruiged by what this language has to offer, not only by its 247 *letters, but by how they write them,
Vilai = Prince, said like that, but they write it like this "Viail". Anyway, I want by the time of my birthday April 15th, to be able to have learnt all 247 letters, and write basic phrases in the language. ~I'll make a log. Edited by Olekander on 13 March 2009 at 11:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Asif500us500 Bilingual Diglot Newbie India Joined 5904 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English*, Tamil* Studies: French | Message 2 of 5 28 May 2009 at 3:48pm | IP Logged |
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Um, good luck...
The way Tamil people speak is very different from writing. Oh, and they never say Vannakkam for hello, they usually just say hello lol 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rabyte Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 6030 days ago 44 posts - 46 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Hindi | Message 3 of 5 28 May 2009 at 9:36pm | IP Logged |
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The only good book for Tamil I encountered so far is the French Assimil "Tamoul sans peine". Maybe Colloquial Tamil is also a good one (in English).
But they all teach more or less the spoken version of Tamil, which I consider more important. So do you really wanna learn the script first instead of beeing able to communicate? Just my opinion, but I think it's easier to learn the script when one is able to understand some basic sentences already... ps. I noticed this post is a bit outdated :)...did you manage to learn the script by now? Edited by rabyte on 29 May 2009 at 11:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nissimb Tetraglot Groupie India tenjikuyamato.blogsp Joined 6414 days ago 79 posts - 102 votes Speaks: Marathi*, Hindi, English, Japanese Studies: Korean, Esperanto, Indonesian | Message 4 of 5 29 May 2009 at 5:39am | IP Logged |
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Hope this one helps.
http://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool/pdf/introduction.pdf http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/tamil/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pohaku Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 192 posts - 367 votes Speaks: English*, Persian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 5 06 June 2009 at 7:23am | IP Logged |
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I made my way through the first few chapters of "Tamil for Beginners" by Kausalya Hart, 1999,ISBN 0-87725-352-8. It seemed pretty good. I did not persist, but learned the entire writing system (combination of alphabet and syllabary), which is not all that hard, since there are some internal consistencies that help you quite a bit. My interest was in possibly studying some ancient Tamil poetry (1st to about 8th centuries), and the only way in seemed to be going through the modern language. There seemed to be a lack of available dictionaries and other study materials, but no shortage of reading material in Tamil. For that matter, there seem to be Tamils all around the world, if you're looking for an informant or teacher. So, for me, Tamil still hangs out there as a someday goal. I was amazed to find that they have a wealth of very good classical poetry that appears to be well worth attention.
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