Tamil

We recommend Talk Now! for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, colors, numbers, food, shopping, time, countries, etc. Talk Now! is designed for people who want to learn a language quickly. It's fun, fast, and makes learning easy. If you don't have time to become fluent, but need the basics in a hurry, then Talk Now! is for you. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with both sexes of native speakers. And Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. This is a fun way of instruction to learn and speak the Tamil language. $_$_START_LIST ? Ideal for beginners and travelers ? Topics include: first words, phrases, food, shopping, numbers, time and more ? Interactive and fun ? Immediate responses to every choice you make ? Compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers, using the record button ? Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes, plus play a challenging memory game! ? Monitor your progress--keep a check on your total score, and print your own awards. ? On-screen help is available at all times in over ? Print your own picture dictionary for handy reference $_$_END_LIST

Hippocrene Books. 222 pages. Tamil, one of the major languages of southern India, is spoken by 60 million people in India, primarily in Tamil Nadu state. In addition, there are about 4 million Tamil speakers in northeastern Sri Lanka, and about 1 million in Malaysia and Singapore. This dictionary is a comprehensive collection containing over 18,000 entries. The Tamil-English section features the terms and definitions in both the Tamil alphabet and in the phonetic pronunciation for English speakers.

Balaji Publications. Size 4?"x7". 160 pages. Covers reading and writing the alphabet; emphasizes common three and four-letter words; basic grammar including tenses and cases; formation of sentences; important phrases; vocabulary buildup; and numbers and dates. Altogether, a very good little beginner's book. This is a cheaply made book but filled with good information.

Read Well Publications. Size 4?"x6?". 196 pages. This book describes itself as "Simple, Smooth, Scientific, and Accurate," but trust me__it takes longer than a month to learn most languages, and Tamil is a very difficult language to learn. Includes progressive, step-by-step lessons on writing the alphabet, vowels, consonants, word formation, etymology, numbers, formation of sentences, positive and negative interrogatives, person, cases, and all the grammar and practise exercises needed to achieve familiarity with the Tamil language. 60 million people speak Tamil__you can too! This is a cheaply made book but filled with good information. - Out of Print -