chennai tamil is a horrible tamil.....pure tamil and people from the southern districts of tamil nadu speak very good tamil language and even sri lankan tamil language is awesome...tamil is really a beautiful language..i love tamil language..
Your pronunciation is not bad. You have a good feeling for sounds.
But I don't understand why the Tamilians want to teach the written version of the language. No one uses it, except in radio and television broadcastings and in public lecture.
He had to teach you standard colloquial Tamil.
For exemple : you speak is "pesuringa" in stead of the standard written "pesukirirgal"
Standard colloquial Tamil is not incorrect Tamil. It has its own grammar.
Sorry... the book whichever they are referring to appears to have wrong choices of words. For eg. for the phrase 'do you understand/understood' - 'viLangu-gi-radha' is used here instead of 'puri-gi-radha' which is much simpler. And the Indian man's Tamil diction is incorrect. 'koorukeer-gala?' is wrong. It kooru-veergala? or kooru-gi-reergala?
I've picked up on basic French & Spanish with out a problem ... even a few German and Arabic phrases ... Tamil is really hard ... when I ask my friend to say a word all I hear is NEEND DA LO KALAWEJKLAWEAWJAWEHAWJK
(Cont'd from last post)...because English contains SO MANY hundreds of loanwords. Like how Glossika explained "triangulation", You just have to find a point of reference in the language you already speak, and mentally attach the new, foreign word to the familiar and native one. If all languages were truly alien to each other, you would give up on learning new languages. Bantu and Xhosa are examples of languages I find overwhelmingly alien, but if i try, it will be as clearto me as this sentence.
Bantu and Xhosa are good choices for language study! I just love the "click" sound in Xhosa. Also, it would be interesting to study African languages because most languages I've studied are either from Europe or Asia. As for words, I just different languages as big vocabulary and don't necessarily try to link them to languages I already know, otherwise I would NEVER learn Japanese ,Chinese or Korean. As for Bantu, there might be some words in Portuguese due to Bantu influence in the past
Well, I'm not supposing that Tamil and Korean have a common ancestor but just thought that it is interesting to have words that are similar. I also remember there's a study on Tamil and Japanese by Susumu Ohno and don't think one should rule out a linguistic possibility completely.
Though I'm a bit young to be forming linguistic theories (I say you're never too young), I'd imagine that all languages are related, because they're spoken by humans. Even though the relationship is obfuscated entirely over the many thousands of years (Old English is unintelligible to most untrained speakers of modern English), you can tell that by the idiosyncrasies in the communication of humans, that no language is ENTIRELY alien to anyone. Especially English speake-Cont'd
Thanks a lot for the reply and I agree that languages are related in one way or the other. Considering a language as "alien" means only that one hasn't started yet. From the "weirdest" languages I have studied I would count Finnish (however this uses "postposition" like in Japanese ), Hebrew (However "you" is "ata" whereas in Japanese is "anata". In Arabic it would be "anta") and Swahili("what" in Swahili is "nini" whereas in Japanese it's "nani") .
You can check Starling's database of Nostratic reconstructions, but I doubt it. Like Mbabaran's word for dog is dog, but it originated from *gudaga, the English did not (and is neither a Pama-Nyungan language), this is just a linguistic coincidence. "Nadu" has a retroflex d.
Thanks for the input but Mike has already said that. Rather than spelling I'm concentrating on how it "sounds" and it reminded me of "nara" (Korean for country), regardless of that being a coincidence or not. If I ever study Tamil "nadu" will be a word I will never forget. Cheers!
Since Tamil is one of the oldest surviving language, It shares a lot of common words with older Hebrew (Aramic??) Some african languages and many East asian languges.....The Ancient Tamil script (Found in stone inscriptions) looks like the present chinese letters.....
@samveda: Would you mind sharing the common words with old Hebrew and the ancient script similar to Chinese letters? I studied Hebrew in the past and learn Chinese currently. Cheers!!
chennai tamil is a horrible tamil.....pure tamil and people from the southern districts of tamil nadu speak very good tamil language and even sri lankan tamil language is awesome...tamil is really a beautiful language..i love tamil language..
DESTINEDTOLIVE123 2 months ago
wow! this guy indeed is eager in learning the language! hats off!!
mallithemadman 2 months ago
Your pronunciation is not bad. You have a good feeling for sounds.
But I don't understand why the Tamilians want to teach the written version of the language. No one uses it, except in radio and television broadcastings and in public lecture.
He had to teach you standard colloquial Tamil.
For exemple : you speak is "pesuringa" in stead of the standard written "pesukirirgal"
Standard colloquial Tamil is not incorrect Tamil. It has its own grammar.
avanwell 6 months ago
Sorry... the book whichever they are referring to appears to have wrong choices of words. For eg. for the phrase 'do you understand/understood' - 'viLangu-gi-radha' is used here instead of 'puri-gi-radha' which is much simpler. And the Indian man's Tamil diction is incorrect. 'koorukeer-gala?' is wrong. It kooru-veergala? or kooru-gi-reergala?
anithank1 9 months ago
I hate Tamils from Srilanka but south Indians are fine.
BRITISHALQAIDA 1 year ago
The tamil used here is kinda strange, well to a malaysian speaking tamil anyway...
anantha92 1 year ago
this is grammatically correct and chaste tamil...
spoken tamil (which is spoken in chennai and rest of tamil nadu) is significantly different and much easier...
and lot english words are easily understood and used with tamil
for eg: say again: 'repeat pannu'
speak slowly: 'slowa paesu'. where repeat is the english word and slowa is from english slow.. here implying slowly..
and also most in chennai understand atleast a bit of english.. all certainly use a lot of english words..
jedraj 1 year ago
I've picked up on basic French & Spanish with out a problem ... even a few German and Arabic phrases ... Tamil is really hard ... when I ask my friend to say a word all I hear is NEEND DA LO KALAWEJKLAWEAWJAWEHAWJK
Hehehe It's really difficult for me....
Jeffrey1Canada 1 year ago 2
@Jeffrey1Canada :D
samveda 1 year ago
@Jeffrey1Canada,
ROFL!!!
sonofthedestroyer 9 months ago
(Cont'd from last post)...because English contains SO MANY hundreds of loanwords. Like how Glossika explained "triangulation", You just have to find a point of reference in the language you already speak, and mentally attach the new, foreign word to the familiar and native one. If all languages were truly alien to each other, you would give up on learning new languages. Bantu and Xhosa are examples of languages I find overwhelmingly alien, but if i try, it will be as clearto me as this sentence.
phenethylaminedreams 2 years ago
Bantu and Xhosa are good choices for language study! I just love the "click" sound in Xhosa. Also, it would be interesting to study African languages because most languages I've studied are either from Europe or Asia. As for words, I just different languages as big vocabulary and don't necessarily try to link them to languages I already know, otherwise I would NEVER learn Japanese ,Chinese or Korean. As for Bantu, there might be some words in Portuguese due to Bantu influence in the past
aulasdejapones 2 years ago
Well, I'm not supposing that Tamil and Korean have a common ancestor but just thought that it is interesting to have words that are similar. I also remember there's a study on Tamil and Japanese by Susumu Ohno and don't think one should rule out a linguistic possibility completely.
aulasdejapones 2 years ago
@aulasdejapones
Though I'm a bit young to be forming linguistic theories (I say you're never too young), I'd imagine that all languages are related, because they're spoken by humans. Even though the relationship is obfuscated entirely over the many thousands of years (Old English is unintelligible to most untrained speakers of modern English), you can tell that by the idiosyncrasies in the communication of humans, that no language is ENTIRELY alien to anyone. Especially English speake-Cont'd
phenethylaminedreams 2 years ago
@phenethylaminedreams:
Thanks a lot for the reply and I agree that languages are related in one way or the other. Considering a language as "alien" means only that one hasn't started yet. From the "weirdest" languages I have studied I would count Finnish (however this uses "postposition" like in Japanese ), Hebrew (However "you" is "ata" whereas in Japanese is "anata". In Arabic it would be "anta") and Swahili("what" in Swahili is "nini" whereas in Japanese it's "nani") .
aulasdejapones 2 years ago
You can check Starling's database of Nostratic reconstructions, but I doubt it. Like Mbabaran's word for dog is dog, but it originated from *gudaga, the English did not (and is neither a Pama-Nyungan language), this is just a linguistic coincidence. "Nadu" has a retroflex d.
Glossika 2 years ago
@Glossika
Do you know any books or audio courses on learning Tamil that you can recommend? And can be found on Amazon?
Germania9 1 year ago
Interesting to know that "naru" (sorry if the spelling is wrong) means country in Tamil because in Korean it's "nara" (나라).
aulasdejapones 2 years ago
It's actually 'nadu'
samveda 1 year ago
@samveda:
Thanks for the input but Mike has already said that. Rather than spelling I'm concentrating on how it "sounds" and it reminded me of "nara" (Korean for country), regardless of that being a coincidence or not. If I ever study Tamil "nadu" will be a word I will never forget. Cheers!
aulasdejapones 1 year ago
Since Tamil is one of the oldest surviving language, It shares a lot of common words with older Hebrew (Aramic??) Some african languages and many East asian languges.....The Ancient Tamil script (Found in stone inscriptions) looks like the present chinese letters.....
samveda 1 year ago
@samveda: Would you mind sharing the common words with old Hebrew and the ancient script similar to Chinese letters? I studied Hebrew in the past and learn Chinese currently. Cheers!!
aulasdejapones 1 year ago
wit pleasure.......
samveda 1 year ago
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samveda 1 year ago
my mail id is samjstephen at gmail
samveda 1 year ago
my mail id is samjstephen at gmail
samveda 1 year ago
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samveda 1 year ago
Tamil-ethen Hebrew- eden(garden); Tamil-Urr(Dwelling place) Hebrew- Ur(Dwelling place); Tamil-kai, Hebrew-coin: Tamil-avvai (Woman), Hebrew-eve:
Tamil-"nadu"(Hope u'll know :-)),naduthal, Hebrew- Knaft
samveda 1 year ago
Type "history of tamil script" Google images.....Thanks 4 ur interest....
samveda 1 year ago
Type "history of tamil script" Google images.....Thanks 4 ur interest....
samveda 1 year ago
@samveda: No, than YOU for sharing your knowledge. That inspires me to learn Tamil. Nandri!!(is this correct for "thank you"?)
aulasdejapones 1 year ago
@aulasdejapones
Yes..:-) aulasdejapones contact me thru my mail... i have a lot to share wit u....
samveda 1 year ago