Introduction: |
Tamil is one of the ancient languages of India and belongs to
the Tamil region including present day Srilanka and Indian
state of Tamil Nadu. It holds the status of official language
in both Tamil Nadu and Srilanka as well. In Tamil Nadu alone,
there are about 66 million people speak Tamil as their first
language and another 8 million people who use it as second
language. It is also official language of the union
territories of Pondicherry and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in
India and has constitutional recognition in South Africa,
Mauritius and Malaysia. Outside India and Sriranka Tamil is
also spoken in Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Mauritius,
Bahrain, Fiji, Germany, Netherlands, Qatar, Reunion, Thailand,
UAE, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. With more than 77
million speakers an ancient history, a rich and continuous
literature, and an international and modern presence Tamil is
today one of the major languages of the world. Tamil also has
the honour to become first recognized classical language by
the Government of India in 2004. The recognition was announced
by the President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting
of both houses of the Indian Parliament on June 6, 2004.
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Tamil
Language: |
Tamil is an ancient Dravidian language that belongs to the
Southern Dravidian subfamily. It is one of the five ancient
languages of India, which is about 2,000 years old but
preserves its originality. The earliest Tamil inscriptions
date from 200 BC. The Tamil language has its own script
descended from the southern Indian Pallava script and old
Brahmi script. It uses syllabic alphabets written left to
right in horizontal lines. There are several regional and
caste dialects of Tamil that distinction between the literary
and colloquial forms of the language. The main dialects
include Sri Lanka, Northern, Western, Central, Eastern and
Southern Tamil. Tamil is spoken differently in different
regions but it follows the uniform style of writing. Like the
other Dravidian languages, it is characterized by its use of
retroflex consonants and by its agglutinative grammar, where
suffixes are used to mark noun class, number, and case, verb
tense and other grammatical categories. Tamil has gone through
three different stages to reach its present form known as
ancient (200 BC to 700), medieval (700 - 1500) and modern
(1500 to the present) stage.
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Our Tamil Language Course: |
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We, at Indo Vacations have designed a special
course in Tamil Language Course that helps you to learn
this wonderful language. While designing this course we have
taken greatest care of the fact, that this course is intended
for people or students who do not belong to the Tamil speaking
regions. This course has planned in association with
experienced instructors, who have expertise in teaching
foreign students whose native language is not Tamil. This
course has planned with enough flexibility in terms of
duration that mainly depends on the interest of student and
the availability of trainer. This course is an individual
course, means you will get lessons by a personal trainer. You
are free to ask questions, take your time at the exercises and
practice the sentences as long as you and your teachers are
satisfied with the pronunciation. Normally these classes run
five days in a week with daily sessions of 5 hours. The daily
classes are divided in two sessions pre lunch and post lunch
session. However, the timing can be rearranged by your trainer
with your consent. Our language program is an inclusive
program that includes your accommodation also.
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We normally arrange your accommodation within 10 minute
reaching time to your teacher. This will facilitate better
coordination between you and your trainer and safe your time
and money as well. For accommodation, we provide you the
different options; stay with an Indian family or choose a
guesthouse or pain guest accommodation. We generally suggest
you to stay with local family so that you get better
environment for learning the language. You will learn a lot by
listening and speaking to your host family. You will also get
a chance to experience the Tamil culture and south Indian way
of living. During your stay, you will be provided a personal
room with bath and WC, round the clock cold & warm water,
meals including breakfast, Lunch and dinner as well as Tea &
coffee, facilities for laundry, internet etc.
At present, we are conducting this Tamil Language Course in
Tamil Nadu and other major cities of India. We would arrange
your transfer from nearby international Airport, if wished so,
on nominal charges. We could also plan tours to nearby places
or any other destination in India and assist you for every
other travel tour services needed by you. For any further
information regarding Tamil Language Course or travel tour
services, do write us and give us a pleasure to assist you. |
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Tamil Language Courses - some additional Information !
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We are offering
private language courses and normally these courses
are done by the hobby students from different countries.
There is no school and collage certificate is issued for
these short term language courses. Courses for the beginners
and advance learners are also organized. However you will
get a teaching certificate from your teacher about the
language lessons you have taken from her.
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We would
accommodate you with a small Indian family and you would be
provided a private room with batch and WC. The Room will be
air- cooled. We need to have some details about you with a
recent photograph to forward to the host family.
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You will be
taught by an experienced private female teacher and
the classes will take only 10 min. from the place where you
will be staying. Classes are normally for five days in two
parts in total for five hours.
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Please note
you will be taken care of by your teacher as well as by the
family you would stay with and we do not expect you be out
of the house in the late hours unless informed to the host
family.
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As this is a
private organized course you have the option of choosing
the time you would like to be here and we would check with
the teacher and confirm this by return to you.
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Please also note
that most of the host families cook only vegetarian food in
India so only vegetarian food will be served during the
stay.
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You would be
given the tel. numbers of the house as well as mobile of the
host family so that you can be reached by your family any
time.
For any further
information Team of Indo Vacations will be glad to assist you.
The glossary that
follows lists some important Tamil words with their English
translations:
English |
Tamil |
I |
Naan |
He |
Avan |
She |
Aval |
You |
Nee |
What is your name? |
Unga peru enna? |
What should I do? |
Naan enna seyyanum? |
Why did you come? |
Yean vantha ? |
What are the questions? |
Enna kelvigal? |
How did you come? |
Nee eppadi vanthe? |
Where should I go? |
Naan enga poganum? |
Whom should I contact? |
Yeara santhikanum? |
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