Learn Tamil in India

  India

Jaipur

Description: Tamil Language - Tamil is one of the ancient languages of India and belongs to the Tamil region including present day Srilanka and Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It holds the status of official language in both Tamil Nadu and Srilanka as well. In Tamil Nadu alone, there are about 66 million people speak Tamil as their first language and another 8 million people who use it as second language. It is also official language of the union territories of Pondicherry and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in India and has constitutional recognition in South Africa, Mauritius and Malaysia.

Outside India and Sriranka Tamil is also spoken in Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Mauritius, Bahrain, Fiji, Germany, Netherlands, Qatar, Reunion, Thailand, UAE, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. With more than 77 million speakers an ancient history, a rich and continuous literature, and an international and modern presence Tamil is today one of the major languages of the world. Tamil also has the honour to become first recognized classical language by the Government of India in 2004. The recognition was announced by the President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament on June 6, 2004.

Tamil is an ancient Dravidian language that belongs to the Southern Dravidian subfamily. It is one of the five ancient languages of India, which is about 2,000 years old but preserves its originality. The earliest Tamil inscriptions date from 200 BC. The Tamil language has its own script descended from the southern Indian Pallava script and old Brahmi script. It uses syllabic alphabets written left to right in horizontal lines.

There are several regional and caste dialects of Tamil that distinction between the literary and colloquial forms of the language. The main dialects include Sri Lanka, Northern, Western, Central, Eastern and Southern Tamil. Tamil is spoken differently in different regions but it follows the uniform style of writing. Like the other Dravidian languages, it is characterized by its use of retroflex consonants and by its agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class, number, and case, verb tense and other grammatical categories. Tamil has gone through three different stages to reach its present form known as ancient (200 BC to 700), medieval (700 - 1500) and modern (1500 to the present) stage.

Highlights: We, at Indo Vacations have designed a special course in Tamil Language Course that helps you to learn this wonderful language. While designing this course we have taken greatest care of the fact, that this course is intended for people or students who do not belong to the Tamil speaking regions. This course has planned in association with experienced instructors, who have expertise in teaching foreign students whose native language is not Tamil. This course has planned with enough flexibility in terms of duration that mainly depends on the interest of student and the availability of trainer. This course is an individual course, means you will get lessons by a personal trainer. You are free to ask questions, take your time at the exercises and practice the sentences as long as you and your teachers are satisfied with the pronunciation. Normally these classes run five days in a week with daily sessions of 5 hours. The daily classes are divided in two sessions pre lunch and post lunch session. However, the timing can be rearranged by your trainer with your consent. Our language program is an inclusive program that includes your accommodation also.

We normally arrange your accommodation within 10 minute reaching time to your teacher. This will facilitate better coordination between you and your trainer and safe your time and money as well. For accommodation, we provide you the different options; stay with an Indian family or choose a guesthouse or pain guest accommodation. We generally suggest you to stay with local family so that you get better environment for learning the language. You will learn a lot by listening and speaking to your host family. You will also get a chance to experience the Tamil culture and south Indian way of living. During your stay, you will be provided a personal room with bath and WC, round the clock cold & warm water, meals including breakfast, Lunch and dinner as well as Tea & coffee, facilities for laundry, internet etc.

At present, we are conducting this Tamil Language Course in Tamil Nadu and other major cities of India. We would arrange your transfer from nearby international Airport, if wished so, on nominal charges. We could also plan tours to nearby places or any other destination in India and assist you for every other travel tour services needed by you. For any further information regarding Tamil Language Course or travel tour services, do write us and give us a pleasure to assist you.

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to World Wide Participants.

Participants Travel to India Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Indo Vacations's Mission Statement: Indo Vacations offers different courses in Hindi in association with experienced instructors in India and abroad. The courses are of different time duration that can be designed as per the interest of student and the availability of the teacher.

Year Founded: 2000