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Originally Posted by skanthan
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Originally Posted by skanthan
skan,
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have a good time.
Dear Shakthi,
mikka nanRi! I do not know what is going on with Shanthi. It has been quite some time now and she has not called me over for Tamil lessons. :shock: I have reason to believe that some of her family members don't want us to meet! :( :evil:
oh so sadQuote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
But do u know enough tamil to read and talk?
Seems like u r pretty good :)
Skan...
:shock:
I have a doubt. Was ur earlier teacher shanthi? I kinda forgot bout her name :(
Dear crazy,Quote:
Originally Posted by crazy
Thank you.
Yes I can read and write Tamil script and can speak a fair bit of it, but, not enough to carry on a very lengthy conversation.
Sometimes I have trouble understanding people when they speak to me in Tamil because they will say something which I cannot understand.
Yes her name is Shanthi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha
i would really love to hear u speak' tamil :)Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
anyway what happened to ur teacher shanthi?
Nothing happened to Shanthi. She is working out of home and is busy. The thing I said earlier about Shanthis family not wanting her to teach me Tamil. I felt that way, because one day when I phoned for Shanthi to find out when we will meet again, her daughter got on the phone with me. When I asked if her mother was there and if I could speak to her, the daughter said in a somewhat snotty tone, "Yeah, but I'm on the phone. Can you call later?" and hung up. I found that to be kind of rude. Maybe her family thought that it seemed odd that I had not contacted Shanthi for such a long time or come to her house for the lessons and here I was or they thought I was :shock: gasp, bothering Shanthi. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by crazy
But, paravayillai! That should not stop me from learning Tamil. Maybe I need to hang out around Ganesh temple and here more often and re immerse myself in the Tamil language.
That is what happened when I was living with some Hindi speaking people from Fiji for 2 years. I got so immersed in that language that I picked it up to a certain extent! :D I am fairly conversant in Fiji Hindi and also can speak a little bit of Indian Hindi. :)
I hope shanthi will get some time to teach u tamil :)Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
You r a very intresting person..........
what other languages do u speak? :) i guess u told me once, but i forgot............belgium? :roll:
sorry if iam wrong
Hi crazy,
Thank you for the well wishes and the question. I can aslo say a few words of Telugu, Malayalam, Sinhalese and Maldivian. As for Urdu and Punjabi. Being that I know a fair bit of Hindi, naturally, I am able to understand a bit of Punjabi and Urdu. Also, I can read and chant quite well in Sanskrit and can understand some Sanskrit words. As for Belgium, I do not know anything, with the acception of a few words of Ukrainian, Spanish, French and German, of the languages in mainland Europe as I never really took any real interest in learning them. I am more into the major languages of India and Sri Lanka. I can also read the scripts of Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Sinhalese and Maldivian.
:shock:
skanthan............u really suprsie me :)Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
I shouldnt have asked u so many questions..........
but i am still wondering, shall i post my questions here or shall i PM?
shame on me.............. :oops2:
Dear crazy,
It is okay. I do not mind you asking these questions. You can contact me either here or via PM.
Of all the languages I mentioned, I especially like Tamil and Sinhalese. Do you know Sinhalese language?
NEXT! :lol: :poke:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha
what a pitty.............. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
sorry i dont................never had the chance to learn, never met any ppl who speak singalese as their first tongue :roll:
i think they "ayubavan" or sth similar to "vanakkam" in tamil.
no i was just wondering what made u so intrested in tamil? and what u r actually doing? working/travelling.............?
wow skan,
u are amazing.
I hardly know 3 languages :oops:
inga mattum ennavaam?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha
tamil :roll: , english :roll: and norwegian :roll:
Crazy,
AayubOvaan means "may you live long". My interest in Tamil came from seeing and hearing about it on TV, in books/newspapers, going to the temple, talking to people and reading about it on the internet and I feel very strongly in my heart that I was aTamil in Southern India or Sri Lanka(most probably) in previous births.
neenga rendu perum paravailla.. i havent mastered even a single language :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by crazy
Incidentally,
interestingly,
'Aayushmaan' is a sanskrit word, which means
"may u live long"
That is true. The Sinhala word "aayubOvaan" and the Sanskrit word "aayushmaan" bear striking resemblances to one another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha
Another Sanskrit term, which is a longer version of "aayushmaan" is "dirghaayushmaanam bhava".
naan ippOdhu thamizh katRukkoLLa thOdanguvEn.
(I will start learning Tamil now...)
Anyone please correct me if there are mistakes in the above sentence.
I do not know when Shanthi will ever be able to teach me Tamil again nor do I know why I am waiting for her before starting my Tamil learning again. I think it is better I will start without her.
naan shaanthiyai ilaamal thOdunguvEn enRu ninaikkiREn. :) naan munnamE podhumaana thamizh puriyagiREn. aadhalaal, naanE thamizh katRukoLvEn. :wink: Of course, with some help from the Hubbers and other pople in Ganesh temple.
Someone please tell me how to say the last sentence in Tamil. nanRi!
may be u was my tamil teacher in prev birth :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
again a doubt...............how on earth did u come across tamil on TV, books??????????.......................iam asking u so many questions, pardon me!
btw. i thought ayubovan meant "vanakkam"...............well if u say then it might be correct :)
ganesh poi sollateenga, enakku thaan oru baasayum ozhunga theriyaadhu :(Quote:
Originally Posted by mgb
Crazy,
I have seen many Tamil books in Ganesh temple and have gotten hold of Tamil books, newspapers and other materials in Tamil from Tamil friends and on top of that, there are many Tamil language websites in the internet.
Before that, I have watched shows featuring the cultures of India and Sri Lanka and watched documentaries about those two countries. And I have also read books about India and Sri Lanka and some of them even gave examples of the scripts and in an old encyclopedia I had seen a chart showing all of the major Indian alphabets including Tamil. From there I had learned most of the Tamil letters. And an old friend of mine from Sri Lanka used to send me copies of the Sunday Observer and from time to time I would find some advertisments with the same thing over in English Tamil and Sinhala and I kind of figured out some of it by myself and learned more of the Tamil script.. Fortunately in 1997, someone here in Edmonton sent me some Tamil alphabet sheets so then I would be able to learn other letters which were missing from that old alphabet chart.
Assuming u know the kural and nedil (o and O difference)Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
it is not
"thOdanguvEn. but...
thodanguvEn.
I would try the above sentences in tamizh.Quote:
I do not know when Shanthi will ever be able to teach me Tamil again nor do I know why I am waiting for her before starting my Tamil learning again. I think it is better I will start without her.
Shaanthi enakku munbu pol tamizh payitruvikka mudiyumaa endro, allathu naan En tamizh katru koLLa shaanthikaaga (avaLukaanga, avarukaaga) kaathirukkirEn endro theriyavillai. AvargaL ilaamalE naan thodanvugathE nallathu ena ninaikkiREn.
This is lightly different from the english sentence u posted above.Quote:
naan shaanthiyai ilaamal thOdunguvEn enRu ninaikkiREn. :) naan munnamE podhumaana thamizh puriyagiREn. aadhalaal, naanE thamizh katRukoLvEn.
LEmme try to change this.
naan Shaanthi illaamal thodanguvEn endru ninaikkirEn.
naan munbE pothumaana tamizh payindrirukkiRen(ive learnt).
aathalaal, naanE tamizh katrukoLVEn.
translated as
I think, I would start without shanthi. Ive learnt quite a bit (or enough) tamizh before. Hence I would learn tamizh myself.
oh........... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
Good luck!
Skanthan U learn tamil in written from, how r u able to communicate? u know, oral tamil is not the same as u write?
Do u speak "pure" tamil? This will be my last question to u,I wont bother u with my stupid questions...........more :)
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Dear crazy,
No, I do not know much for pure Tamil.
temorary sori-Observer,Quote:
Originally Posted by temporary sori-Observer
I cannot read that font on my computer. Though I have it installed in my computer, for some reason, I am also unable to rype it. I have installed and reinstalled theis and another font which is readable from this computer, but am unable to type that here. Please could you repost it in Unicode font? Thank you.
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Originally Posted by skanthan
akka,Quote:
Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha
Sorry I did not respond you earlier today. I will make the above mentioned corrections after.
Dear Shakthiprabha akka and Crazy,
I talked to Shanthi 2 days ago and found out why she took so long in responding to me. Something had happened to her.
oh so nice, atlast u met her :) but what happened to her? u dont need to answer, if its too....... :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by skanthan
Dear crazy,
Shanthi injured herself a while back and shortly after Shanthi injured herself, her mother inlaw got hurt. As a result, Shathi has been unable to cotact me. Because she is tending to her injury and on top of that her mother in law which is very hard for her. But, I am not worried. I know AmbaaL is watching over and maybe eventually Shanthi will be able to teach me Tamil like she was until over 2 years ago. :wink: naan bhayappaatta maattEn!
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Originally Posted by skanthan
yes God will be helping her and her family.
btw i think there should be one "a" and one" t", not sure...........sp akka will sure correct it :)
Yeppers! :DQuote:
sp akka will sure correct it :)
Nice thread. this thread is helping many people (including me) to learn Tamil. :clap:
migavum nalladhu! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by shalitha