Author: Krishna Gopal Vikal
Amitabh Dhingra/
Translator(s)/ Edito: S Senthilnathan / K Parthiban
Publisher: Diamond
Year: 2013
Language: multilingual
Pages: 156
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812881186X
Description
The book primarily attempts to introduce those whose mother tongue is not Tamil to learning of Tamil by the most natural and the simplest method. It adopts the scientific approach, introducing alphabets, words, sentences in that order and application of these in the most common situations of daily life.
Situational sentences and conversational sentences selected for the book reflect the maximum possible commonness of India languages and Indian culture.
Contents
PART 1- ALPHABET
Welcome you all
Alphabet
Consonants
How to Write alphabet
Vowels & Their Abbreviated Forms
Parts of speech
Gender & Number
Usage of foreign words in Tamil
Cases & Post Positions
Clitics
PART 2- WORDS
Pronoun
Adjective
Verb
Tense (1)
Tense (2)
Voice
Secondary verbs
Other parts of speech
Cardinal Numerals
Words of mistaken
PART 3-CLASSIFIED SENTENCES
Useful expressions
Imperative Sentences
Present Tense
Future Tense
Past Tense (1)
Past Tense (2)
Interrogative Sentences (1)
Interrogative Sentences (2)
Interrogative Sentences (3)
Negative Sentences
PART 4- SITUATIONAL SENTENCES
At Home
Shopping
Craftsmen
Foods & Drinks
Hotel & restaurant
Post Office/Telephone/Bank
While Travelling
Health & Hygiene
Weather
Time
PART 5- CONVERSATION
Let us talk
Between Two Friends
About Money
On the Bus
Asking the Way
Making A Trip
The Villager & The Urban
The doctor & The Patient
Self-introduction
APPENDIX
Idioms & proverbs
Tamil-English Dictionary
Some Important Tamil verbs