Tamil Resources

[Meera]

Here are resources to various sites to learn the Tamil Language. If you have any please feel free to add.


Online Courses
http://www.thetamillanguage.com/les.html


http://www.tamilvu.org/
(this is a VERY rich site-has many lessons)


http://www.learntamil.com/

http://www.kidsone.in/tamil/

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/

Ebooks
Tamil Textbook:
http://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool/unicode/

A Grammar of Spoken Tamil:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/book.html

First Lessons in Tamil:
http://books.google.com/books?id=k2AIAAAAQAAJ

Progressive Grammar of Tamil:
http://sites.google.com/site/soyouwantt ... uage/tamil

Acess to Tamil Textbooks:
http://dsert.kar.nic.in/textbooksonline/first.asp



Script

http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/tamil/java_anim/tam_anim.php

UK India Tamil:
http://web.archive.org/web/200710050505 ... p/ztm1.htm

Omniglot Tamil:
http://omniglot.com/writing/tamil.htm




Enjoy Everyone

[TeneReef]

English-Tamil-Sinhala dictionary

you can enter any word you want, and even hear the right pronunciation

http://www.lanka.info/dictionary/pronou ... lang=Tamil

[Meera]

OMG Teenreef! Thanks this site is awesome!!!

[TeneReef]

Audio books in Tamil (some are free to download):

http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?as ... 653&sr=1-2

http://www.audible.com/search?advsearch ... sh&x=0&y=0

[Bijlee]

This looks like a good grammar book for Tamil:
http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Grammar ... 927&sr=1-1

This person did some videos on Tamil that seem pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/user/desidame4eva#p/u

A website with some lessons:
http://www.saivam.org.uk/saivamTamil.htm

Kids' site!
http://www.noolagam.com/

[Meera]

Thank you! These look great!

[Meera]

Tamil Short Stories /Poetry

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Li ... ian/Tamil/

[Meera]

I came across this site while looking for Bengali stuff:
http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=tam

It has Tamil, Newspapers, TV stations, links to learning sites and some other things. Very useful for learning Tamil

[Meera]

Tamil flashcards and printables
http://www.balmitra.com/LanguageBook/Ta ... _Tamil.asp

[TeneReef]

A new online English-Tamil-English dictionary, developed my Madhan Karky

http://www.agaraadhi.com/dict/home.jsp

it seems good

[Meera]

இந்த பெரிய உள்ளது! நன்றி.

[bluejay390]

I came across this website while looking for Malay resources. It seems useful so I'm posting it here.

http://www.tamilcube.com/tamil.aspx

[Meera]

I came across this website while looking for Malay resources. It seems useful so I'm posting it here.

http://www.tamilcube.com/tamil.aspx

Thanks bluejay!!

[Jesus Bhai]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of some comparative texts for Tamil?

Say a Comparative Grammar of Tamil and Hindi/Urdu. Or perhaps someone knows of resources IN Hindi for learning Tamil?

[Meera]

Sorry Jesus Bhai, I don't know of anything, but I will surely search around the internet for you

[TeneReef]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of some comparative texts for Tamil?

Say a Comparative Grammar of Tamil and Hindi/Urdu. Or perhaps someone knows of resources IN Hindi for learning Tamil?

In India, all books for non-Tamil Indians learning Tamil are in English.




As for Comparative grammars, I've only seen comparative grammars of Written and Spoken Tamil.
Written Tamil hasn't changed from the 13th Century grammatically (only alphabet has been changed), and spoken Tamil has changed a lot (as expected).

[Jesus Bhai]

Hmm. Interesting stuff, especially about written Tamil. I was NOT aware of all of that.

And if it's as you say, that there are no comparative grammars out there, well then I guess I'll just have to make one of my own, eh?

Maybe a Punjabi/Hindi/Tamil comparative grammar. Excellent way to learn myself while also teaching others. Something to consider at any rate.

Now, can you personally vouch for any examples of English resources that stand out (for tamil learning of course)?

[Meera]

Hmm. Interesting stuff, especially about written Tamil. I was NOT aware of all of that.

And if it's as you say, that there are no comparative grammars out there, well then I guess I'll just have to make one of my own, eh?

Maybe a Punjabi/Hindi/Tamil comparative grammar. Excellent way to learn myself while also teaching others. Something to consider at any rate.

Now, can you personally vouch for any examples of English resources that stand out (for tamil learning of course)?

It depends on what kind of Tamil you want to learn. For spoken Tamil, the best book is Colloquail Tamil. For written Tamil, I think Tamil for Begginers might be good. There is also many good online courses. Here are a few you can check out:

http://www.tamilvu.org/


http://www.thetamillanguage.com/


http://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool/


It would be great to have another Tamil learner

[TeneReef]

When I used Colloquial Tamil, I had to slow it down to -50% in Windows Media Player (thank God for that option )

[Meera]

When I used Colloquial Tamil, I had to slow it down to -50% in Windows Media Player (thank God for that option )

Well Tamil is very fast when spoken