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rmanoj wrote:Sure, I'm in.
Do you mean the Tamil Language in Context book or the website? Not sure I'd be able to get hold of the former.
dEhiN wrote:OMG!!
Thanks for starting this! Yeah I like the idea of using the website.
Does the website teach centhamizh as well?
vijayjohn wrote:Fortunately, it always teaches Centhamil alongside Madurai Tamil
dEhiN wrote:I assume I'm the heritage speaker you speak of
I do have 563 Tamil cards in my Anki deck. I could export them and post them here. They're a mix of vocab, including some not-so-basic vocabulary, grammar points and sentences. If you guys want, we could go through them together.
Also, who's the native speaker?
vijayjohn wrote:How do people go through Anki cards together? You mean study them together?
I think we're all kind of at different levels of proficiency. You know some Tamil, I know some more, rmanoj knows more than me, and then we have at least one native speaker. Plus we have at least one person who has learned some Tamil before but who I don't necessarily expect to get back into it anytime soon, and maybe some other people who are interested but don't actually know any yet like księżycowy.
vijayjohn wrote:The last person who replied on your personal thread in this forum!
vijayjohn wrote:Here's the website btw: http://www.southasia.sas.upenn.edu/tamil/index.html.
One thing that sucks about it, though, is that its videos use QuickTime...or at least that sucks for me. But I can still work with it and watch them through Google Chromium. If you want, I can even send the URLs for each video as you need it.
dEhiN wrote:So how do we begin? Should we go through the links on the left-hand side, or the Year 1 and 2 materials (found here)?
If the materials on the left-hand side, then we could possibly skip "Tamil Alphabet", unless a few others join the group who don't know the script.
Maybe we should wait for a few more days or even a week to see if anyone else joins?
dEhiN wrote: If the materials on the left-hand side, then we could possibly skip "Tamil Alphabet", unless a few others join the group who don't know the script.
vijayjohn wrote:We don't know if or when anyone else will join; it could take a week, it could take months, maybe it could even take years if this thread lasts that long! So I think it's fine to just go ahead and start working through it and/or figuring out where you'd like to start, as long as you're fine with potentially helping people catch up later.
księżycowy wrote:dEhiN wrote: If the materials on the left-hand side, then we could possibly skip "Tamil Alphabet", unless a few others join the group who don't know the script.vijayjohn wrote:We don't know if or when anyone else will join; it could take a week, it could take months, maybe it could even take years if this thread lasts that long! So I think it's fine to just go ahead and start working through it and/or figuring out where you'd like to start, as long as you're fine with potentially helping people catch up later.
All of which would apply to me, once I do eventually join.
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