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| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4536 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 9 of 19 14 December 2011 at 5:44am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Tamils from Chennai have troubel understanding spoken Jaffna Tamil and Malayalam.
On the other hand Jaffna Tamil and Malayalam speakers understand each other perfectly. When Asin visited Jaffna, she found it easier to use Malayalam than Chennai Tamil. In Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Indian Tamils speak Indian Tamil and Sri Lanka (Jaffna and Colombo) Tamils speak Sri Lanka Tamil. They are two different peoples culturally and linguistically. Sri Lanka Indian Tamils were always loyal to the Sri Lanka government, while Jaffna Tamils fought the civil war against it. Edited by Camundonguinho on 14 December 2011 at 5:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| stephane Newbie France Joined 4479 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: French* | Message 10 of 19 20 January 2012 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'd like to be able to read newspapers or webpages about Sri Lanka in Tamil. It's unclear to me whether the books or the learning material available online is useful for this task (i.e. how close variants of Tamil are). Are usual Tamil language resources (like Teach Yourself, the Colloquial series, Assimil...) suitable for this task or is this a waste of time and should I rather concentrate on Sri Lanka-specific manuals or grammars (which ones?). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5132 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 11 of 19 20 January 2012 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Sadly, there is no Teach Yourself Tamil.
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| kappale741 Newbie India Joined 4439 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes | Message 12 of 19 21 January 2013 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4917 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 13 of 19 21 January 2013 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Believe it or not, there is a "Colloquial Tamil" (Routledge) course, though. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6016 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 14 of 19 21 January 2013 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
... and an Assimil Tamoul Sans Peine if you can read French... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4455 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 15 of 19 22 January 2013 at 4:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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''Colloquial Tamil '' course does not use the Tamil script, but some kind of phonological (not phonetic!) respelling (which no Tamilian would ever use, not even in the most informal internet chat).
Furthermore, the dialect used is Chennai Tamil/Madras Bashai, which is not the standard of the colloquial Tamil (the central Tamil accent (Trichy, Madurai) is the closest to the standard colloquial Tamil; Anu from Koffee with Anu is from Trichy and she speaks very neutral, so does Sridevi who is from around Madurai). If you watch Tamil cinema, you can hear that Chennai Tamil is not prevalent, female actors don't use it, and as for men, many tone it down (except for some actors like Dhanush who keep the strong Chennai accent, with all those rounded nasalized vowels: marõ instead of maram). சென்னை - Chennai [tʃennai] formal Tamil [tʃennei] standard colloquial Tamil (Trichy/Madurai accent) [tʃenne] Chennai dialect/accent மரம் - maram ''wood'' [maram] formal Tamil [marãm] or [marã] standard colloquial Tamil (Trichy/Madurai accent) [marõ] Chennai dialect/accent ''Standard Spoken Tamil evolves out of the middle class speakers, primarily non-brahmin castes, who are involved in mercantile and professional activities in central Tamilnadu i.e. Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Karur and South Arcot regions.'' http://www.lisindia.net/Tamil/Tamil_vari.html Edited by Medulin on 22 January 2013 at 5:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Maikl Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6012 days ago 121 posts - 145 votes Speaks: German*, Dutch, English, Spanish Studies: Turkish | Message 16 of 19 29 June 2013 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Today I found a nice free website for learning Telugu
If you click yourself through it seems quite extensive. Not entirely sure yet but I think I'll give it a try. Edited by Maikl on 29 June 2013 at 3:55pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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