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Title: Tips for Learning Tamil Easily


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Tips for Learning Tamil Easily
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Introduction
  • Friendliness and politeness are highly valued in
    Indian culture.
  • Tamil culture values their guests, so hosts will
    often go to great lengths to make sure their
    guests are comfortable.
  • Once youve mastered the basics of Tamil, explore
    the world! Tamil is spoken widely in India, Sri
    Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia
  • There tamil assessment books in singapore that
    speaks about significance of Tamil Language.

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Find some foundational materials to start your
lessons
  • There are several online resources that can help
    you as you begin to learn Tamil. Youll also want
    to find a good dictionary.
  • The Oxford English-Tamil Dictionary, published by
    the India branch of the Oxford University Press,
    is considered the standard dictionary for Tamil
    learners and has over 50,000 entries

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Obtain a Good book or two
  •  An average native person who speaks Tamil uses
    only a very small number of vocabulary on a daily
    basis. This means that you can actually speak the
    language to a certain acceptable level simply by
    visiting the above pages.
  • If you want to speak Tamil, this is the book to
    purchase, as spoken Tamil is very different from
    written Tamil, which has remained largely the
    same since the 13th century.

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Become familiar with the Tamil script
  • The Tamil script has 12 vowels, 18 consonants,
    and one character known as an aytam that is
    neither a consonant nor a vowel.
  • However, because the Tamil script is syllabic
    rather than alphabetic -- meaning symbols
    represent phonetic units including
    consonants and vowels -- it comprises a total of
    247 phonetic combinations.
  • Many of these are written by adding diacritical
    marks to the basic 31 letters to indicate changes

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Conclusion
  • In larger cities, there are often Tamil cultural
    centers established to serve the local Tamil
    population.
  • However, even in smaller towns there are often
    Indian cultural centers and events, so you might
    still be able to find someone who knows Tamil and
    is willing to share their knowledge with you.
  • Tamil Reading Books Online in Singapore helps you
    to learn tamil quickly.
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