Tamil Conversation Book
Contents with first two chapters
About the book:
This book is designed to be used with students from the fifth to the ninth grade. The conversations, spoken and written exercises that are included in this book cover widely spoken Tamil words, customary expressions, and idiomatic forms. By carefully following the dialogues, lessons, and exercises in the book, heritage learners of Tamil can easily improve upon their spoken as well as written Tamil skills. The book carefully differentiates between and identifies spoken and written Tamil forms so that students can practice each of these varieties in isolation and acquire the appropriate skills. In addition, those who follow the conversations and exercises in this book can easily succeed in the Spoken Tamil test conducted by the ACTFL organization (http://www.actfl.org) as well as the Tamil tests conducted by the biliterarcy organization (http://www.biliteracy.org) and Penn Language Center (https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/).
இந்நூலைப் பற்றி
மாணவர்கள் இந்நூலைக் கொண்டு தங்களின் தமிழ்ப் பேச்சுத் திறனைப் படிப்படியாக வளர்த்துக்கொள்ளும் வகையில் வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்நூலில் கவனமாகச் சொற்கள், வழக்குத் தொடர்கள், மரபுத் தொடர்கள் ஆகியவற்றைத் தெரிந்துகொண்டு அவற்றை முறையாகப் பயன்படுத்தும்படி உரையாடல்களோடு பேச்சு மற்றும் எழுத்துப் பயிற்சிகளும் கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. படங்களைக் கொண்டு பயிற்சிகள் அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. வகுப்பிலும் வீட்டிலும் பேசி, எழுதிப்பழகும் வகையிலும், வகுப்பு நடவடிக்கையாக மற்ற மாணவர்களுடன் இணைந்து பேசிப் பழகும் வகையிலும், வீட்டுப்பாடமாக எழுத்துப் பயிற்சி செய்யும் வகையிலும் இந்நூல் வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்நூலை மாணவர்களிடையே சரியாகப் பயன்படுத்தும் வகையில் ஆசிரியர் குறிப்பும் தேவையான இடங்களில் கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதோடு இந்நூலில் கொடுக்கப் பட்டுள்ள உரையாடல்களைப் பழகிய பிறகு மாணவர்களால் ACTFL நிறுவனம் நடத்தும் பேச்சுத் தமிழ்த் தேர்வையும் இருமொழி முத்திரை நிறுவனம் நடத்தும் தமிழ் மொழித் தேர்வையும் பென்சில்வேனியாப் பல்கலைக் கழகத்தின் மொழிகள் துறையில் கொடுக்கப்படும் தமிழ் மொழித் தேர்வையும் எளிதாகத் தேர்ச்சியடையமுடியும். இந்நூலில் கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ள பாடங்களும் பயிற்சிகளும் இத்தேர்வுகளை மனதில் கொண்டு வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன.
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2) Tamil Language in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Learning Tamil
Author: Vasu Renganathan, University of Pennsylvania
ISBN: 978-0-615-53347-6
(hardcover)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011944928
We are pleased to announce the third revised edition of the book "Tamil Language in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Learning Tamil", a companion resource for making use of the contents of the website: http://www.thetamillanguage.com in its fullest extent possible. This book accompanies a thumbdrive (sold separately) with all of the multimedia contents from this website, arranged in a pedagogically organized format. The text is carefully designed to progress the readers sequentially through graded glossaries, readings, grammar, dialogues, and cultural information. A detailed grammar of Tamil in an ordered fashion from simple to complex forms, a concise discussion on Tamils' customs and habits, illustrations on the diglossic nature of Tamil, discussion on foreign language influences in Tamil, agglutinative property of Tamil words etc., are some of the sections that are covered in this book in a comprehensive manner. A distinction between formal and informal variety of Taml is maintained througout the book so as to learn both the written and spoken forms of Tamil in a systematic manner. The videos that are included in the thumbdrive (sold separately) comprise of a set of dialogues filmed in appropriate speech contexts in Tamil nadu. Importantly, this book is not only meant for Tamil language learners of both heritage and non-native speakers, it can also be used by native speakers of Tamil and Tamil researchers as a resource for learning about Tamil language and culture.
In essense, this book is about Tamil, Tamils and Tamils' various ways of using Tamil.
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This review is from: Tamil Language in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Learning Tamil (Book and Dvd) (Hardcover)
This book offers a thorough introduction to Tamil for beginning and intermediate students as well as a cogently organized and extensive grammatical review for experienced learners and native speakers. The text culminates from the author's many years of Tamil instruction to undergraduate and graduate students in the US and certainly stands out among the limited number of Tamil textbooks available.
As a Tamil student I've worked with a number of textbooks and language manuals. While some are admittedly much better than others, I have found Vasu's text the most comprehensive and comprehensible. The book utilizes both the Tamil and Roman scripts to guide learners, and ultimately leads students to learn through the Tamil script. Some Tamil books strictly use the romanized script, which I find to be a disservice to serious learners who want to progress beyond the pronunciation of simple phrases. The text's well organized chapters lead students through grammatical points while refining written and spoken skills. Both beginning and advanced students alike will benefit substantially from this text.
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Author's other book on Tamil language and Linguistics. Buy it in Amazon: A Computational Approaches to Tamil Linguistics
A good resource for those interested in the fields of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing with specific focus on the Tamil Language and other Indian Languages. Offers suitable algorithms for a number of NLP applications including Text to Speech, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Morphological Tagger and so on.
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