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How do you say these words in Tamil?
late
The bus is late.
I am late for work/getting home.
early
I wake up early.
I came earlier
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Shakthi? Rajraj? Lambretta?
Where are all of you? I have not seen any of you here nor have I even posted here since so long! Please let us continue on in this thread.
Mr.Skanthan, i am into my semester exams now. thats why i cudnt translate the entire poem. i will provide full translation once teh exams are over :).
seri! :D
wow a perfect thread where i can learn tamil too :D
Cute! :lol:Quote:
Vijays world
Welcome to my thread.
gnaayitRil, naan oru pudhiya apartmentukku pOgiREn.
Hi skan :( I missed reading this. Sorry for the delay. howz u ? :)Quote:
Shakthi? Rajraj? Lambretta?
Where are all of you? I have not seen any of you here nor have I even posted here since so long! Please let us continue on in this thread.
Kaala-thaamatham (this must be the most apt word)Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
Neramaaagiyathu
Neramaayitru (I dunno if its really convincing. Waitin for raj's verdict)
Perunthu kaala-thaamatham AAgirathu.Quote:
The bus is late.
VEedu/velai/aluvalukku sella enakku kaala-thaamadhamaagirathu.Quote:
I am late for work/getting home.
munnathaaga (akin to 'prior to schedule')Quote:
early
Naan munnathaaga vizhithu viduven.Quote:
I wake up early.
or
Naan munnathaaga ezhunthu viduven.
Naan munnathaaga vanthu vittEn.Quote:
I came earlier
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Happy shifting skan? :) hows ur matha seva going on?
I know :P :D vjs so cute :D
whats the last line mean?
yes ur thread is v v helpful for me :D
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Originally Posted by skanthan
Thanks all! I am now in my new apartment. It is so great! :D
oh cool!!! thats fab! :D
Hi Skan :DQuote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
How r u doing? Sorry, long time since I dropped by in this thread.....:)
Neways, looks like SP akka is being a gr8 help to u already....:)
'glad u like ur new apartment! :D
Take care, bye 4 now....paapom (we'll meet again) :wave:
Thanks dev for giving the meaning and sorry for being replied late. I want to learn tamil but I dont know how to proceed. Can anyone suggest me how to learn tamil; i mean the best ways?? My native is telugu so I understand some common words and I trying to lisiten to songs and mvoies with sub titles. Unfortunately i dont have any friends to make conversations.Quote:
Originally Posted by dev
Regards
I am completely floored by ur interest in learning tamil. I think initially watching movies is good to get a gist of the language (thats how i learnt hindi :D) If u want to learn tamil script and pure tamil, u need to look for guide. I will check to see if there are any websites available for teaching tamil.Quote:
Originally Posted by gaya3
have fun!!!
ciao
gaya3,
Try this website.
www.tamilclass.com
well i know tamil, its my mother tongue, some words r so familiar, but donno what it means!
f.ins.
moi
ellorum vaNakkam!
Sorry I took so long in replying all of you. Hopefully, within the next month, I will start meeting Shanthi again. But, I do not know how often or how long it will go on for. As long as some other people don't come along wanting to move me in with them and try to seperate me from my friends AGAIN :evil:, I am sure it will be just fine. :wink: As for my Matha Seva, I have so much to catch up on with Amma and my Sevas as I do with other things.
Vanakkam Skanthan. Nalama irukeengala?.
hi skan,
glad to know u are back. Glad to know bout ur sevas too. Soon keep posting reg thamizh queries :)
Hi akka!
It's nice 2 c u again! eppadi irukkiReenga? It's gr8 havin' u around! :D Right away I will go through all of my old lessons and I will c what may need correction.
Dev,
naan nalla irukkiREn! :D I love my place I am at now. So quiet, so peaceful.
Shakthi,
Do you not find the colloquial Tamil to sound quite similar to Malayalam? I myself find that it very closely resembles Malayalam and the Tamil which is spoken by Tamils from Fiji.
Skan,
Colloquial tamizh of various parts differ in sound.
The way madurai tamizh sounds, u cant find the same in elongated rinign of kovai tamizh, or the dialect of thirunelveli.
Chennai thamizh is extremely cosmopolitan with mixture of almost all languages under the sun.
So I dont think we feel tamizh sounds esp colloquial tamizh sounds like malyalam.
malyalam is more nasal
tamizh is crisp
I aint sure of tamils of fiji though :)
Shakthi,
Fiji Tamils speak a dialect of Tamil which is spoken in Chennapattinam. Their Tamil is very similar to colloquial Tamil as commonly spoken by Tamil from India and Sri Lanka.
ie: For "I want water" they will say, "naan thaNNIr vENNum"
For "I don't want..." they say, "naan...vENNaa"
I have heard people say that Malayalam is spoken in Fiji which kind of suprised me as though there are people of Malayalam descent in Fiji, no body really speaks Malayalam as opposed to Tamil and Telugu which are spoken spoken by large numbers of people there. Out of the 5000 people in Fiji who have knowledge of Tamil, 1000 can fluenly read, write and speak fluenly in Tamil.
Before, I have had people, Tamil speakers themselves, tell me that Tamil is not a sweet language. This really shocked me as on Tamil websites throughout the the internet, Tamil is praised as being as a sweet language by its speakers. Why did this one Tamil speaker, from Chennai, tell me that Tamil is not sweet?
hi Skanthan
long time no c?, y dont u actively participate like b4?
vaNakkam, Raghu! eppadi irukkiReenga?
I am participating off and on here. When Shanthi, my old Tamil teacher starts teaching me Tamil again, from where she left off over 2 years ago, :lol: you'll be seeing me more often on this forum, esp. on this thread. :wink: One question, are there still discussions going on in forum about the similarities between Malayalam and Tamil? Because it appears to me that Malayalam very closely resembles Tamil in it's colloquial form. ie: The numbers in colloquial Tamil and the numbers in Malayalam. I would like to explore a little on these topics and bring them to discussion in this thread amidst my Tamil learning. :D
skanthan,
This topic discusses the malayalam,tamil similarities: http://www.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?t=1903
Thank you, RR.
I visited that thread and posted some of my observances and queries there. I found that discussion qute interesting.
Shakthi, Lambretta, Rajraj and all,
I have very great news to tell all of you!
Hello? Shekthi? Rajraj? Lambretta? Is anyone there?
Anyways.. Here is my good news. A few days ago, I met Shanthi at the Ganesh temple. We had been talking about how we had not met for Tamil lessons for over 2 years. During the discussion, I expressed to Shanthi that I would like to start taking Tamil lesson from her again. She said to me that from next month, we will meet every second week for tamil lessons. :wink: This is so great. I am so happy and excited that Shanthi will be teaching me Tamil again! :D This is so good that I am going to start learning Tamil again!
All the best, Skanthan... :thumbsup:
Thanks Dev! :D
I know it will be great! :thumbsup:
Best of wishes Skanthan...it's uplifting to read how excited you are to be learning tamil again.... :D
Querida,
Yes, it is very uplifting! :D oru naaL naan nanRaaga thamizh pesuvEn. naan thamizh katrukkondavudan, naan thamizh mattumE pesuvEn! :thumbsup:
Well, as this is a tamil learning thread, I thot nothin wrong in posting this here.:D
Cus sumone plse. translate this Tamil song for me? From the music I find this song rather mysterious & 'been eager to know the meaning....
I mean, I do know the meaning o *some* words here.....like paRavai = bird...:)
ninaivoa oru paRavai......
virikkum adhan siRagai
paRakkum adhu kalakkum than uRavai
rojakkaLil panneer thuLi
vazhigindradhaen adhu enna thaen?
adhuvallavoa parugaadha thaen
adhai innum nee parughaadhadhaen?
adhaRkaaga thaan alaipaaygiRaen
vandhaen thara vandhaen
pani kaalathil naan vaadinaal
un paarvai dhaan en poarvaiyo?
aNaikkaamal naan kuLir kaaygiRaen
adhaRkaaga thaan madi saaygiRaen
madi enna un mani oonjaloa
nee dhaan ini naan dhaan....
Tks in advance! :)
:lol: Sure.. Seems this song is reflecting what Lambretta machaan is thinking about ! :lol: Just kidding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lambretta
Yesterday, I watched this movie. This one is a lovely song.
I am poor at translating a tamil song into its english version. May be someone like Jana could help you.. :)
Lamby ... I have tried ... :swinghead: and definitely there may be some mistakes.. :oops2: .Some one please point that out and say ... :notthatway:
But there are more professionals here ... Some expert please give a better version :ty:
Thought is a birdQuote:
ninaivoa oru paRavai......
virikkum adhan siRagai
paRakkum adhu kalakkum than uRavai
It will spread it wings
It will fly and join its partner
Quote:
rojakkaLil panneer thuLi
vazhigindradhaen adhu enna thaen?
adhuvallavoa parugaadha thaen
adhai innum nee parughaadhadhaen?
adhaRkaaga thaan alaipaaygiRaen
vandhaen thara vandhaen
Rose water drops on roses
why it is brimming? What honey is it?
That is undrunk honey
Why you havent drunk it yet
I am wavering for that
I Came! I Came to give
If i dry out in winterQuote:
pani kaalathil naan vaadinaal
un paarvai dhaan en poarvaiyo?
aNaikkaamal naan kuLir kaaygiRaen
adhaRkaaga thaan madi saaygiRaen
madi enna un mani oonjaloa
nee dhaan ini naan dhaan....
Is your gaze my blanket ?
I am warming up without hugging
I am resting on your lap for that
Is my lap your beaded swing (oonjal)
Its you.. Only you from now..
Many tks rami!! :ty: :notworthy: :D
Wow, the lyrics sound really wonderful, now tat I know wat they mean.....! :thumbsup:
Um..one thing tho (altho am certainly not an expert! :P), cud it be tat "kuLir kaaygiren" may mean more like withstanding cold (ie, kulur thangarthu...?) :? :)
Also, "nee dhaan ini naan dhaan"......its u only, from now on its me (naan) only.....? 'didnt get this..... :confused2:
Or cud it mean more like: from now on, its only u & me.....? :huh: :D
OK, me waiting for an expert opinion too now! :lol:
Hello, everybody! How are all of you? In the next week or so, I will be meeting Shanthi! :D
who is that............ur tamil teacher?Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
anyway GOOD LUCK :)
"Kulir Kayaarathu" = something like camp fire.. To warm up people burn wood and get the heat from it.. I dont remember the exact word for it.. so i have put it as warming up... :roll: Some experts clarify this ... :froggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lambretta
nee than ini naan than - Yep it means "From now, its only you and me.."
:yes: :exactly:
(I've read it as nee thaan ini nee thaan :oops2: )
Sorry I took so long replying this post!Quote:
Originally Posted by crazy
Yes, Shanthi is my Tamil teacher.