SANJAY DHANASEKARAN - Spoken Tamil For Absolute Beginners

SPOKEN TAMIL
FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS

SANJAY D

Expert in Language Training

Acknowledgement and Dedications

First and foremost, I would like to thank my mom Meenakshi and my wife Jacqueline for standing beside me throughout my career and helping me write this book. They have been my inspiration and motivation for continuing to improve my knowledge and write this book. They are my rock, and I dedicate this book to them. I would like to thank Maheshwaran A. R. for illustrating the book cover. I also thank my Tamil students who encouraged and motivated me to write this book especially Tricia Sutton She loves Tamil more than anybody I ever knew and Edward. I also dedicate this book to all Tamil learners in the world who wants to connect with their loved ones, who wants to enjoy the beauty of the language and more thats being offered by the Beautiful and elegant Tamil. .

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Of all the languages that I knew, there is no language thats as sweet as Tamil.

By Subramania Bharati

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About Author:

Sanjay D is born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu southern part of India. He is always fascinated about Tamil and loved the language with all his heart. He started teaching Tamil to many foreigners and through that gained lots of experience in understanding the difficulty foreigners have in learning the Tamil language. So, he prepared an organized and systematic course to help them learn and speak the language with ease and better pronunciation. This book is the ultimate result of years of experience in teaching Tamil to Indians and foreigners.

About Tamil:

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken by more than 70 million people worldwide. The two countries where Tamil is predominantly spoken are India and Sri Lanka. In India, Tamil is the mother tongue of people in the state of Tamil Nadu and in Sri Lanka, one fourth of the inhabitants are Tamil speakers who migrated from Tamil Nadu many years ago. Tamil is an official language of Singapore and Sri Lanka. Over many years, Tamil speakers have migrated to other countries like Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Canada, UK, Germany, etc. Tamil is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world. It is also stated as 20th in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide. Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions from 500 BC have been found on Adichanallur and 2,200-year-old Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions have been found on Samanamalai. It has been described as "the only language of contemporary India, which is recognizably continuous with a classical past. The variety and quality of classical Tamil literature have led to its being described as "one of the great classical traditions and literatures of the world". Tamil has a very rich culture and a visit to Tamil Nadu will provide you multiple opportunities to experience the beauty of the place and the language. Tamil Nadu has Mahabalipuram, a monolithic temple with rock sculptures carved in the seventh century.

How to redeem one-hour free Learning to read Tamil script lesson from me.

Along with this book, you are eligible for 1 hour of free learning to read in Tamil training lesson from me to help you read the Tamil scripts better.

To redeem the free Lesson from me send an email to learntamilnow1@gmail.com along with the details of from where you bought this book or ebook and your order id.

1) This book is designed in such a way that you do not require any knowledge before learning spoken Tamil through this book. This book is for complete beginners, and those who are looking to review, improve their Tamil fluency and understand the language better.

2) You will be provided with Transliteration in English for almost 80-90% of the Tamil scripts in the book but still, you are expected to learn Tamil letters and read them due to the below mentioned reasons.

• Even if I give the transliteration for the Tamil script, the possibility that you read with correct pronunciation is less. For e.g. , (TL: vaNakkam), I am sure that five different people will read the transliteration vaNakkam in five different ways depending on their English accent.
• The time taken to learn to read in Tamil is only approx. 10 hours.
• When you learn to read the Tamil scripts, you will be able to understand and pronounce Tamil letters with much ease, also you will be more independent in learning Tamil.

Due to all the above reasons, I highly recommend you to learn to read the Tamil script, I have provided the first two lessons with audio especially to train you to learn to read in Tamil and along with this book you are eligible for 1 hour free Learning to read in Tamil training lesson from me to help you read the Tamil scripts better.

3) You are not expected to learn to write in Tamil, But if you are interested you are most welcome, it doesnt take much time to learn to write the Tamil scripts.

4) Every Tamil script in this book is provided with the below mentioned for easy understanding:

Transliteration (tl) This is the transliteration of the Tamil script, In simple words, this is how a Tamil pronunciation would be if it is written in Tamil.

Literally (lit) Since the word order for many sentences are different compared to English, I have provided the literal translation of the Tamil script.

Translation (t) This is the translation of the Tamil script in English. This gives you the end meaning of the sentence in English, no matter in which word order the sentence might be in.

5) I have created many courses in the mobile and desktop application memrise to help you to learn Tamil Alphabets, Vocabulary, Verbs, Verb conjugation, etc. A separate section will be provided to help you in installing and using this application.

6) You are not expected to learn all the vocabularies before you begin, it is recommended to learn vocabularies little by little. But you are expected to learn and memorize Pronouns and their suffixes, Verbs, and their conjugated forms as they are frequently used throughout the book.

7) Once you are able to read in Tamil, little by little stop being dependent on Transliteration that I have given for the Tamil script, please ignore them as much as possible.

8) Keys to most of the exercises are given at the end of the book.

9) Please try to understand every part given in the book, a lot of effort has been put in this book to explain in great detail with lots of examples, a concept or a part that is being mentioned in one chapter will not be repeated in other chapter. So I expect you to put a lot of effort in understanding whats given in the book rather than memorizing the Tamil words.

Tamil language is a lot different from English be it the script or the grammar etc., there are lots of rules and grammars involved in the language, if you were to learn everything before speaking the language you will have to learn forever. So what I did is I have taken some important key grammar topic, words and suffixes required and explained them in great detail so that you can get started to speak in Tamil.

Guarantee :

I can Guarantee you that if you read this book with complete focus, motivation and willingness to put effort in learning, understand the grammar given here and memorize words and suffixes; you will definitely be able to make sentences in Tamil consisting of 3-6 words, using which you can make small talk with native speakers of Tamil.

This book is designed in a step by step practical approach to get you start speaking in Tamil.

1) Along with this book you can take classes from me to boost your learning and improve your pronunciation skills.