SPOKEN TAMIL FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS Kindle Edition

This is a breakthrough book unlike any other for Tamil. My husband and I moved to Chennai a number of years ago. Our shelves are lined with how to learn Tamil text books. We even took a course at the Tamil Institute which helped us read but there was zero practical application. Tamil is a very difficult language compared to Hindi and any Latin based language-at least for an English speaker. But this book cracks the code. It’s written in a way that a language learner would want to logically learn. No more just trying to memorize and hope it’s right without fully understanding it. Thank you, Sanjay. We really appreciate you doing this. It must have truly been a labor of love. It took a lot of work to do this since no other book has done this before. I hope you can get this into all the language schools as the main text book. It’s a necessity. Next time we are in the states, we’ll also get the print book. May you have great success!

Sanjay is an incredible teacher! He has written this amazing book that is so well-planned and laid out that it makes learning a foreign language much simpler. He includes many tools with the purchase— access to online courses, videos, music, movie links, and more. He is accessible for questions and support by email.Because I was so impressed with his book and helpfulness via email, I have hired him as my teacher. He offers affordable rates and teaches at a pace that is both challenging and something I can keep up with. He has an adaptable approach to teaching; he is patient and fun! He suggests various practices to keep me learning outside the classroom, and he positively reinforces my progress to keep me motivated and confident.By purchasing this book, you are giving yourself more than just an ordinary book. You are opening yourself up to a world of opportunity should you choose to use all the tools Sanjay generously offers. I am sure you will be pleased! Happy learning and expanding your world!

I'm the kind of person who needs to know how to read and write and learn grammar/conjugations before being able to memorize vocabulary. This is perfect for me. It can be slightly confusing because it's not written in perfect English, it's written by a tamil speaker, but I'm able to work it out. Comes with a Memrise set of vocabulary which goes along with the book!! Memrise could be better because sometimes the English options are capitalized in odd areas and that makes a difference when choosing between two almost identical English answers, you'll notice the pattern and be able to pick the right ones but I'm hoping I'll be able to fix that in the set myself later on.

Seems to be a useful resource, probably perfect for the committed learner of the language. But not so sure I’m a committed enough learner—it’s a challenging resource to get your head around and probably requires the user to have a background of some sort in linguistics or language learning, which I have to some extent.

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Very well done. Easy to understand and the author is super useful in giving tips and helping throughout the learning experience. I really recommend it.

I started learning tamil by just memorizing the vocabulary and putting words together. Most of the time my sentences made no sense and i would get very frustrated. Learning a language is hard but learning a language with limited resources to actually learn the language is harder. Then i found spoken tamil for absolute beginners. It has so much information in it. Everything i had learned started to make sense. Slowly i started forming sentences. This book has so many grammar rules and little tips that i had to read it... And then break it up into chunks and then reread it just so that I could get all the information in the book. It is one of the best tools for teaching yourself tamil that i have ever seen. I use my book daily. I live in america so not being submerged in the language was a problem but now I am moving past that problem with the help from this book. I love it!

My husband speaks Tamil and I have tried several times to learn in order to be able to communicate better with his family. This book has helped me to finally make some progress. Following the tutorials in this book along with using the Memrise (now Decks) app has been an enjoyable learning process. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to learn Tamil.

Fantastic! Worth a lot more than £30, as it comes with lots of other resources thrown in for free. I bought the book without knowing this so maybe these aspects could be better advertised. There is a free lesson with Sanjay, the author, to help with pronunciation and tips on learning Tamil. He has also recorded YouTube videos to help explain the tongue movements for the consonant letters (check these out!) and help through the Memrise app which is much better than pouring over the script to learn the compound letters. He has a formula for learning the Tamil script (and therefore to read in Tamil) which takes maximum 10 hours of time if you follow it religiously. Tamil is a phonetic language so once you have the script you have the ability to learn new words without hearing them spoken by a native speaker (unlike french for example!). He also has audio recordings of the reading practice which you can download as well. This is a full package for learning Tamil - not just a book. It will get you to a level where you can make small talk with Tamil speakers. From there you can learn by practicing to speak the language. I haven’t got on to the grammar sections of the book yet but I can already say this is a wonderful book and anyone wanting to learn Tamil should get this.

This wonderfully clear and concise introduction provides a great starting point for those who wish to learn Tamil. There is all the essential grammar and vocabulary that a beginner needs.It has helped me to connect with my own culture and tradition, so I am truly grateful to the author for this book. Highly recommended!

Sanjay has created an amazing book which really sets out how the Tamil language is made up. His 1-1 lessons are really useful too.

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Though I have not completed the book. But after going through some of the chapters I found it very useful and helpful than any other book I had ever purchased to learn Tamil. Though the book is expensive but I believe that this book can be the ultimate destination to learn some amount of descent Tamil with proper understanding.The author of the book Mr Sanjay D is a very responsive and dedicated person because he replied to all my emails and correlated with my difficulties in learning language...Even though till date I haven't taken any class from him even though one class is complementary with the book purchase, but still I have felt that the author is ready to lend some help atleast to overcome the difficulty with pronunciation.I have a lot of desire to learn Tamil and I am struggling a lot to learn because I am not getting help from any of the native speakers known to me. But some how I am desperate and I have made up my mind to crack the language even though my mother tongue and Tamil are diagonally opposite when compared to similarities.I have a hope that I will be able to learn almost 50percent with the help of this book . Especially the grammar part has been much emphasized and explained in this book. Also, 100 different verb forms have been explained on this book. I am really thankful to both the author and Amazon for writing, publishing and marketing the book online.