Learn Tamil in a Month: An Easy Method of Learning Tamil Through English without a Teacher (English and Tamil Edition) Paperback – December 31, 2000

Tamil is one of the main Indian languages. For me, understanding the grammatical details is a bit confusing because it seems to "decline" words differently from other languages. Many grammatical terms are in Tamil, which makes things somewhat difficult to pronounce or understand. This is probably one of the main texts on Tamil and it's one that you need to take your time with, step by step. Tamil has a beautiful script. It is great for calligraphy.

When trying to learn a new language you have a lot of doubt and uncertainty. These books help to break it down in easy terms

Very good Tamizh book for someone who already has a sound understanding in the language. I would not recommend it for beginners. Good luck in learning this great language that I fondly call my mother tongue with so much of pride.

I bought this one when I was planning my journey to India, where I stayed for 6 months.Studying with it and also with a native Tamil speaker while in India I obtained a LOT of congratulatory comments from my Indian colleagues, that make me believe this is a very nice start kick to Tamil language.Despite, it's just impossible to do what the title invites you to: learn Tamil in a month, without ever hearing it? No, not possible.

Where to even begin...First off, the author seems to be oblivious to all second language acquisition research. The introduction was heartwarming and I appreciate the author's intent to bridge cultural gaps. I skipped the alphabet to preview what the rest of the book had in store for me. I spent a while flipping through and reading chapters, wondering when the "book" would begin. The first 11 chapters are just alphabet/grammar lessons devoid of any context. But then it switched to word lists and random phrases for most of the rest of the book. There is no dictionary/glossary in the back, of course. The example sentences also have questionable English translations; the entire book seems like a native English speaker never looked at it before print. I can forgive that if the content is interesting and useful, but it's awful too.Back to "ignorant of second language acquisition research" - We have a pretty large body of research now that points to the idea of "comprehensible input" being necessary (but not sufficient) for language acquisition to occur. Comprehensible input is input that is level-appropriate (comprehensible, even), and still slightly challenging. See Stephen Krashen's work for a rigorous definition.What doesn't count as comprehensible input is a list of words or complex phrases. Literally entire "chapters" are just word lists. Zero example sentences -> zero comprehensible input. Zero interesting material -> zero language learned. Seriously, there is a chapter labeled "Minerals" with words like "gold", "salt", "copper sulfate". I don't care about this. Nobody does. "Trees", "Birds", "Reptiles", "Fruits", "Vegetables", "Professionals" (professions, but again, no English proofreading) -- this is useless crap.Grammar is organized by theme: "case", "person", "tense", "interrogations", etc. This approach known to be less useful than CI-based approaches where communication is the goal.The example sentences given (when given) are useless or too long to be useful. "The leader came", "Read the lesson", "He came yesterday", "It is not good for you", "He killed with a sword".The author attempts to explain grammar concepts using dense grammatical terms in Tamil. Sorry, that isn't important or appropriate for learners. This book has a bit more than 175 pages -- why waste it trying to define every grammatical term in both the native Tamil script and transliterated Tamil? What value could that possibly have?!Sorely, sorely, missing are no-nonsense sentences and phrases that elucidate grammar points and aid in communication. For example, words like "Hello" (!), "How are you"?, "I want to ____", "I need ____", "Repeat that, please", "What is this/that", "This is a ___", etc.And let's also put this into perspective: 40 chapters -- "Learn Tamil in a Month". I can forgive that if this was structured as a 30-day course, but the author doesn't seem to know how to write anything other than a reference text, so calling this a "course" is an insult to language course writers everywhere. Pedagogically speaking, it's a disaster - some chapters would take ages to go through, many others are word lists or a few phrases with no clear idea of what is supposed to be learned. All of that notwithstanding, there is no way this book can be absorbed or worked through in 30 days.In theory, I could toil and struggle trying to go through this book as designed. I could attempt to memorize two pages of tree names and random sentences. However, I'm 100% confident that the same time, applied to more efficient study material, would result in a better outcome. A better outcome meaning "I can produce more correct sentences", "I have a better grasp of Tamil grammar", "I know more relevant vocabulary". Folk, the research is already in. Grammar-translation is out.I'm not going to waste my time on this book and neither should you. This is going in the dump.

Great! Fast Shipping!I like that it includes cultural dialogue as well this is a really good idea for language learners

its bad, doesnt work for me