Tamil Writing Made Easy


Book Description

Want your child to learn how to write in Tamil? Tamil Writing Made Easy Can Help You Make That Fun Too Now! With Guidance Dots and Arrows, You Can Learn To Write Each Letter The Right Way. With Tracing Segments, You Can Master All The 247 Letters Of The Tamil Alphabet. Then You Can Practice Independently Until You Are Perfect! Let's Make Tamil As Easy As ABC For Your Child Today!




Colloquial Tamil


Book Description

Colloquial Tamil is easy to use and completely up to date! Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to spoken Tamil. While emphasis is placed on colloquial spoken Tamil, you are given a useful introduction to formal speech and the written language as well. What makes Colloquial Tamil your best choice in personal language learning? Emphasis on authentic conversational language Clear explanations on how to pronounce and write the language Helpful grammar notes and reference grammar Comprehensive vocabulary lists (Tamil-English and English-Tamil) Lively illustrations and fascinating cultural insights throughout By the end of this rewarding course, you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Tamil in a broad range of everyday situations. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.




My First Tamil Alphabets Picture Book with English Translations


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Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Tamil ? Learning Tamil can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Tamil Alphabets. Tamil Words. English Translations.




SPOKEN TAMIL FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS


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Spoken Tamil for Absolute Beginners is the most comprehensive English guide for Tamil Language on the market for Absolute beginners: This book is a structured and systematic approach to teach yourself spoken Tamil. Written by a well-experienced teacher specialized in teaching Tamil to foreigners. What is unique about this book? What makes it better than other Tamil language learning books? This book is the best in the market because it contains: - Fun and essential vocabulary and phrases. - Speaking, listening and reading practice. - Pronunciation, Cultural notes and Grammar explanation in very detailed manner. - 30 plus audio tracks can be downloaded from google drive to listen to. Details are given inside - Provided vocabulary, verbs and verb conjugation in memrise application to make the learning experience more fun and intuitive. - Support from the author will be provided at all times, and you can even take lessons from the author. - Built using simple, easy to understand English with an elaborate explanation. At the end of the book, you will be able to speak in Tamil, by making sentences using 3 - 6 words. This is the main and only goal of this book. Whether you are a foreigner visiting places where Tamil is the main spoken language or you want to interact with a Tamil native speaker in your place or you want to learn a language which is centuries old with lots of cultural values. This book is for you.




The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction


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Fiction. South Asia Studies. Selected and translated from the Tamil by Pritham Chakravarthy. Edited by Rakesh Khanna. The follow-up to 2008's successful first collection featuring stories by Indra Soundar Rajan, Medhavi, Jeyaraj, Pushpa Thangadorai, Rajesh Kumar, Indumathi, M.K.Narayanan, and Resakee. A young woman's fascination with blue films leads to a bizarre murder! A bloodline of debauched maharajas falls prey to an evil curse! A beautiful girl uses karate to retrieve a stolen idol! Seven thrilling tales from seven Indian and Singaporean masters of action, suspense, and horror!




TAMIL TIGRESS


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A story of a child soldier in Sri Lanka's bloody civil war. Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of 17, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was to engulf Sri Lanka for decades. With her was her lifelong friend, Ajanthi, also aged 17. Leaving behind them their shocked middle-class families, the teenagers had become part of the Tamil Tigers' first female contingent. Equipped with little more than a rifle and a cyanide capsule, Niromi's group managed to survive on their wits in the jungle, facing not only the perils of war but starvation, illness and growing internal tensions among the militant Tigers. And then events erupted in ways that she could no longer bear. How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers?




A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil


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This is a reference grammar of the standard spoken variety of Tamil, a language with 65 million speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. The spoken variety is radically different from the standard literary variety, last standardized in the thirteenth century. The standard spoken language is used by educated people in their interactions with people from different regions and different social groups, and is also the dialect used in films, plays and the media. This book, a much expanded version of the author s Grammar of Spoken Tamil (1979), is the first such grammar to contain examples both in Tamil script and in transliteration, and the first to be written so as to be accessible to students studying the modern spoken language as well as to linguists and other specialists. The book has benefitted from extensive native-speaker input and the author s own long experience of teaching Tamil to English-speakers.




Letter Writing Made Easy!


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In Letter Writing Made Easy!, author Margaret McCarthy offers sample letters for hundreds of common occasions. Need to write a thank you note? Want to dispute a bill? Having trouble expressing your feelings upon the death of a friend's loved one? McCarthy has provided samples which you can use as is, or modify to suit your own particular style or concerns. How to write more intimate personal letters How to write more powerful business correspondence Practical advice on format, style, tone, forms of address . . . and much more Includes hundreds of ready-to-use samples So put down that phone and write a letter! It's not only more personal, it's more effective. And with Letter Writing Made Easy!, writing a letter is a breeze!







The Cage


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"The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read." —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Fall of Baghdad In the closing days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, according to United Nations estimates, as government forces hemmed in the last remaining Tamil Tiger rebels on a tiny sand spit, dubbed "The Cage." Gordon Weiss, a journalist and UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka during the final years of the war, pulls back the curtain of government misinformation to tell the full story for the first time. Tracing the role of foreign influence as it converged with a history of radical Buddhism and ethnic conflict, The Cage is a harrowing portrait of an island paradise torn apart by war and the root causes and catastrophic consequences of a revolutionary uprising caught in the crossfire of international power jockeying. Gordon Weiss has lived in New York and worked in numerous conflict and natural disaster zones including the Congo, Uganda, Darfur, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Syria, and Haiti. Employed by the United Nations for over two decades, he continues to consult on war, extremism, peace building, and human rights.