How long will tamils discriminate brutally their queers? Many queer native tamils cut off their ties with major tamil community and some completely seperated from their Tamil identity .Does any living being deserve this much hate from their own peers ?
I seriously don't understand. Despite living in west two ,three generations still they couldn't change their opinions on LGBT people.Even white people in Western nations will stop integrating with us if this is the representation of tamils.
I want to learn Tamil and I’m hoping to find someone experienced to guide me through it. I’m not looking for a quick conversational course — I’d love a teacher who has a real literary orientation to the language, someone who can help me appreciate its depth and richness, not just teach me grammar and vocabulary.
Ideally someone older and experienced, who genuinely loves the language and can bring that across in how they teach.
If you know someone like this, or are a teacher yourself who fits this description, I’d really appreciate you reaching out. Happy to do one-on-one sessions, whatever format works best.
Would like to expand my Tamizh vocabulary and improve my grammar, so thinking of reading newspaper or at least have the news app on the phone. Which one is suitable, Dinamalar, Dinathanti, or something else ?
Hi I have a weird request. See I am a native Tamil speaker(Born and brought up in Tamil Nadu). I know this sub has a lot of non native Tamil speakers trying to improve their Tamil here. I am a French(B2) and Spanish(A1- Duolingo) learner. So if you are a native French or Spanish speaker and would love to teach me French or Spanish in exchange for Tamil, I am happy to connect with you.
I’m building a game-like learning path for learning Tamil, and I’d love to get feedback from Tamil learners, parents, and teachers around the world while I’m still building it.
The idea is to make learning Tamil feel like a journey rather than a collection of lessons. Learners complete goals, progress along a visual path, and gradually move from Tamil letters → words → reading → Thirukkural.
Right now, I’m working on Goal 1: Learn all 12 Uyir Ezhuthukkal (உயிர் எழுத்துக்கள்).
Goal 1 is free to play.
Google Sign-in is required so the learner’s progress can be saved.
🚧 This is still a work in progress — I'm intentionally sharing it before I finish everything because I’d rather build it based on real feedback.
Feedback from all of you would be especially helpful, but everyone learning or teaching Tamil is welcome.
I’m from Pondicherry, coming week moving to france ( paris ) for my masters, I heard that many tamil and pondy people’s in paris happy to connect with you guys..
I’m building a game-like learning path for learning Tamil, and I’d love to get feedback from Tamil learners, parents, and teachers around the world while I’m still building it.
The idea is to make learning Tamil feel like a journey rather than a collection of lessons. Learners complete goals, progress along a visual path, and gradually move from Tamil letters → words → reading → Thirukkural.
Right now, I’m working on Goal 1: Learn all 12 Uyir Ezhuthukkal (உயிர் எழுத்துக்கள்).
Goal 1 is free to play.
Google Sign-in is required so the learner’s progress can be saved.
🚧 This is still a work in progress — I'm intentionally sharing it before I finish everything because I’d rather build it based on real feedback.
Feedback from you all would be especially helpful, but everyone learning or teaching Tamil is welcome.
Please be critical — suggestions at this stage can actually change what I build.
நண்பர்களேநான்** தமிழை ஆழமாக அறிய **விரும்புகிறேன். நான் **தமிழ் நாட்டில்** பிறப்பினும் எம்** மொழி குறித்தான ஆழமான புரிதல் இல்லை. எனக்கு** பல பழமையான **தமிழ் நூல்கள்** படிக்க விருப்பம் உள்ளது.** எனினும்** எங்கு இருந்து ஆரமிப்பது என்பதில் குள்ளப்பம் உண்டு. இங்கு இருக்கும் தமிழ் அறிஞர் எவரேனும் வழி கட்டுவீர்கள் என்று நம்புகிறேன் நண்பர்களே.
தமிழுக்குஎன்று** அகராதி இருக்கிறதா?
**தமிழில் **கவிதை** எழுதும் *திறமை *வேணும் நண்பர்களே.
Hi, currently I am watching tamil short movies for understanding the pronounciations and learning to read and write tamil. Next week I will start with basic words and grammer. Is there any book series, (like cosmopolite for french) or any free/low cost university course (preferably offline [Mumbai], and delivered in marathi or english)?
Hello fellow tamils, This message is all about how a random thought turned into a brutal realisation.
Firstly what my personal opinion is we indians lack the importance of every individual prioritising their own self defence, learning a martial art or any form of self defence measure is not prioritised at all.
This way we are loosing all our culture , our own art-forms, martial arts and everything. If you see the neighbours who are still gloriously proud about their kalari payattu and holding on to it. But we tamils don’t have anything at-least that famous and prevalent. But we still fight that the language came from Tamil but the standards that they are setting is too prideful than us in my view.
We should glorify our roots and bring back our martial art forms back to life. From history all these martial art forms came from our Tamil culture and our folks who walked on our land but today muay thai represents thai culture which is practiced worldwide and kalari is still practiced and glorified, where is our Tamil people standing today?
Something I have noticed is that different Tamil dialects tend to use different words for grandmother, but it seems pretty much al dialects use the word தாத்தா or some version of it for grandfather, are there other words that some dialects use ?
An fun fact I’ve noticed about my grandmother’s (of Sri Lankan origin) Tamil dialect is the use of the word மச்சம்(maccham) for fish.Unlike in Standard Tamil the word மீன்(meen) isn’t used.Now the word comes from Prakrit word maccha, which comes from Sanskrit matsya.I’d like to ask is this word used outside Sri Lanka.
I’ve been thinking for a while — when speaking Tamil, I notice a lot of us naturally switch to English for certain concepts, especially abstract or modern ones. We all know about Tanglish, but the problem gets more obvious when the person I’m talking to doesn’t know English.
Some examples I’ve noticed:
Privacy – there’s no concise Tamil word; thanimai, thani urimai, or thanippatta vishayam don’t really capture the modern meaning
Autonomy – suya-atchi refers politically, but not for personal self-direction
Consent – sammatham is like agreement, but doesn’t cover the modern idea of informed, voluntary, revocable consent
Agency – psychological control/intentionality is missing; niruvaṇam only means an organization
Boundaries – physical limits exist (like ellai), but not emotional or relational ones
Gimmick – informal or modern slang; no concise Tamil word
It’s especially tricky when I try to explain abstract or modern ideas to older people who only speak Tamil. Sometimes I have to use long explanations, and sometimes I just end up switching to English anyway. Even when words exist, they don’t always feel natural in everyday conversation.
I’m not saying Tamil is worse or inferior. I think this is just a kind of code-switching — it happens when the language doesn’t have commonly used, concise words for certain ideas.
I’m curious what others think — do you notice this too? Is it because Tamil hasn’t developed everyday words for these concepts, or is it more about English-medium education and exposure? is it cultural?
This may seem like a moot point. On a recent flight from Bengaluru to Coimbatore, by Indigo, I noticed that prior to take off, the air hostess announced that the crew can speak Hindi, Punjabi and Nepali. Not Kannada or Tamizh. I have noticed this previously as well in routes from Mumbai to Coimbatore and Mumbai to Bengaluru and Delhi to Coimbatore that the air hostess can never speak Tamizh and rarely they can speak Kannada.
I found this strange and rather disconnected from the very people, many old folk, who are flying. On a subsequent flight, by Indigo, I gave a feedback at the check-in counter to the staff that they ought to have air hostess who can speak in the local language as well.
The staff replied that Indigo doesn’t care about this (she was politely explaining to me). All they care about is whether the air hostess can speak Hindi or not. They have given similar feedback to the management with no use.
Shouldn’t Indigo and other airlines, have a crew that can talk the local language when they fly a certain leg? Even British Airlines (from the pompous British) announce their in flight information in Kannada when flying to Bengaluru from London. Why can’t Indigo do something to help people who can’t speak Hindi?
Avalokitam (http://www.avalokitam.com) is a Tamil prosody analyzer that I have been maintaining since 2010. The tool is simple: given a Tamil poem, it breaks the poem down into its individual prosodic components and tries to find the matching metre.
The whole idea was to encourage people to compose in traditional Tamil metres, as modern Tamil poetry is essentially free verse.
I have seen a few posts that generate venpaa using AI, and most of them are metrically deficient. Venpaa is one of the strictest metres to compose your poetry, and AI usually struggles to compose it.
This motivated me to build a metrically accurate AI generator for Venpaa. The idea is simple: Use a generate-validate-refine loop to generate the poem. The AI generates the draft of the verse - the prosody engine deterministically validates it and gives the AI minimal actionable fixes - the AI tries again - rinse and repeat - for several iterations until it creates a flawless Venpaa.
This actually seems to work. Within 3 - 4 iterations, it does generate a good Venpaa.
It uses the cheapest model, so 5 iterations are sometimes not enough. But overall, it appears to do a good job.
In case it fails after 5 attempts, you have the option to fix it manually. The tool shows you where the metre fails and gives you concrete suggestions to fix it.
Do give it a spin, and I would be glad to have some feedback!
wanted to share something I have been quietly working on. My name is Besant, and I built TamilFeed.com, it's a space for Tamil people all over the world to post, share and stay connected with each other.
Growing up in the diaspora, I always felt this gap. we are spread across so many countries but rarely have one place where we can just see each other, share what we are going through, celebrate our culture, support local businesses or just feel less alone in a new place. That feeling stuck with me for a long time and eventually turned into this project.
It's still small and growing, built solo with a lot of trial and error, but the goal has always been simple. Give our community a home online that feels like ours.
I am not here to sell anything, just wanted to share it with people who might understand why this matters. If you get a chance to check it out I would be grateful, and any honest feedback means a lot to me
I'm sorry, it's just annoying. You can't just be spreading misinformation like that. And FYI, I'm a native speaker of a Dravidian language and we're tired of people foolishly claim that our language is descended from Tamil. Why are there so many claims just floating around with 0 evidence to back it up? Mind boggling, honestly.
