Talk:Tamil/Tamil Script

Why do we have a section on Carnatic Music here? It is totally unrelated to this topic. --61.95.211.98 06:53, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Teaching step-by-step
I would really like to see lessons teaching how to read and write Tamil step-by-step. It's hard to learn from an overview of letters. Lack of examples is another problem, but even if there were examples afterwards the learning situation would be far from perfect because the student would still have to memorise all letters at once in order to be able to begin practising.

What I have found really useful when learning non-Latin alphabets is a "divide and conquer" method that introduces few letters at a time and offers example words for practise immediately after each letter / each set of letters. What's even better is if those example words are understandable without prior knowledge of the language, that is, international words. For example: names of countries, cities or famous people (if their name isn't significantly different in Tamil than in English), common personal names, Tamil words that have entered English, English words that are used in Tamil, words that both Tamil and English have derived from Greek or Latin... The advantage of using these words is that students will be able to quickly see their own progress and the whole learning process becomes as fascinating as solving a puzzle. See the "Read Write and Pronounce Greek" lessons in the Modern Greek Wikibook for an example, or this external page on Cyrillic.

If you'd like to try this approach for teaching how to write Tamil, I'd be glad to help you, even though I don't know Tamil. I'd like to learn it though and I can read quite a few other scripts. Just create a big list of suitable words on a planning page like Modern Greek/Writing lessons plan, answer me here and I'll try to find an optimal order for letters.

Thanks for your efforts to teach a language that is hard to find in European schools!

Junesun 17:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

P.S.: If there's somebody generally unsure about how to create good language lessons, I really recommend reading the following two pages about it: Authoring Foreign Language Textbooks and Authoring Foreign Language Textbooks/Bite-sized language lessons.

HELLO!!!

if you want to read and write in tamil ,.. i would suggest this tool if you are really very good at speaking tamil thisi came across through one of my class mates last week, it is http://quillpad.in/tamil you just need to type in english how you speak in tamil say you just need to type eppadi irukkirai? it will ocnvert into the tamil letters... this way you can post long blogs also peacefully and also learn to rean and write in no time

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