Meera, I don't know why, but Tamil is the only language I love nowadays. I think I've lost the will to learn all other languages, even Portuguese which I love(d) to death. I now see why you are so interested in Indian languages, because they are just so exotic, such a break from the average languages you see on this forum, and I think I've caught the Indian language bug too

As for where you're starting with your Tamil studies, are you going to be starting with formal Tamil, or dive straight into colloquial Tamil? I personally find it better to start with the formal variety, even though it's pretty useless in the Tamil language sphere, but I guess that's more because all the online Tamil resources describe the formal variety
