COMMON SPOKEN TAMIL MADE EASY

1 COMMON SPOKEN TAMILMADE EASYT hird Edi tionbyT. V. ADIKESAVALUD igital VersionCHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE VELLOREAdi s SPOKEN TAMILMADE EASYT hird Edi tionbyT. V. ADIKESAVALUD igital Version2007 This book was prepared for the staff and students of Christian Medical College Vellore, for use in the TAMIL Study Programme. No part may be reproduced without permission o f the General s TO SECOND EDITION: NOTES FOR PRONUNCIATION & KEY FOR GRAMMAR LESSONS: Lesson Greetings and Forms of Pronouns, Interrogative and Pronouns, The Verb to be , Cardinal Numbers 1 to 10, andVerbs - Verbs - Positive Verbs - Negative Imperatives, Weak & Strong Verbs, & Nouns - forming the Nouns and Personal Pronouns - Accusative (Object) Nouns and Personal Pronouns - Genitive (Possessive) Review, (Revision) Verbs - Nouns and Personal Pronouns, Dative Case, to or for & Verbs - Verbs - defective (continued).

2 4715. Cardinal Numbers 11 to 1000 & Verbs - Present tense, Adjectives and Nouns - Locative Case, 'at' or 'in'.6420. Post positions, (Continued).6721. Verbs - Future Tense, Positive,and Ordinal Numbers. 70 Adi s Verbs - Present and Past, Negative, Potential Form to express 'may'7523. The Vegetable Shop, And Review (Revision) Verbs Future tense, Nouns & Pronouns, Instrumental, by means of or with ,Verbs to express should , should not , must and must not 8726. Nouns & Pronouns, Instrumental case accompaniment/association,Verbs to express need.

3 Need not 9227. Nouns & Pronouns ablative case, from ,Verbs to express can or able to & cannot or not able to 9728. Nouns & Pronouns locative case (continued from Lesson 19)10229. Nouns & Pronouns, complete declensions10730. Verbs, Past Tense, strong verbs, with thth as medial11031. Verbs, Past Tense, strong verbs, with thth as medial (continued)11432. Verbs, Past Tense, weak verbs, with dh as medial11733. Verbs, Past Tense, weak and strong, with ndh as medial12034. Verbs, Past Tense, weak and strong, with ndh as medial (continued)12335.

4 Verbs, Past Tense, weak verbs, with in as medial12636. Verbs, Past Tense, weak verbs, with in as medial (continued)13037. Verbs, Past Tense, weak verbs, with tt as medial13338. Review (Revision) Verbs Past Participles14040. Verbs Perfect & Imperfect tenses14441. Verbs conditional form if & if not .14842. To express even if & even if not 15343. Verbs Participles present, past & future Comparison and Reflective Intensive verbs & Causal Composite Nouns, Participle Nouns & Verbal s Adverbial clause of time Page when , while , before , after , as soon as , until , up to.

5 17548. Adverbial clauses of purpose, manner, cause or reason, in order not to , according to , because .18049. Suffix um & its uses184 6 XIIL[HV DQG YDGKX 187 III. Everyday dialogues:51. Greeting and meeting people19252. Conversation about one s work19553. Conversation with a servant19754. Conversation regarding time19955. Conversation about weather20256. Conversation with a tailor20357. Conversation with a cloth merchant20558. Conversation with a fruit merchant20759. Conversation with a gardener20960.]

6 Conversation at the dining table21161. Conversation with a dhobi21362. Conversation at a railway station216IV. SHORT STORIES. 9 WKWKXP SRQ PXWWH\XP The goose and the golden eggs. 218 3D DNN UDQXP QDPELNNDL X D Q \XP The rich man & the faithful 7 KRSSL Y\ E ULXP NXUDQJXQJDOXP Cap merchant a& the monkeys. 220 2 WKWKXPHGK Q EDODP Unity is 7 KDL\DON UDQXP \ QH\XP The tailor and the 2 ZYDL\ U \HQQXP SXODYDU Owaiyar the GRAMMAR AT A GLANCE. Where to find a SPOKEN TAMIL ENGLISH TAMIL TAMIL ENGLISH s TO SECOND EDITIONFor more than fifteen years, the writer has been teaching TAMIL to the westernstudents and non- TAMIL Indians at the Christian Medical College Hospital.

7 The availableTamil grammars and texts were used for teaching the TAMIL script. But at the same time,the writer's own Romanized TAMIL notes were used to enable the students to speak the day-to-day language of the people ( COMMON SPOKEN TAMIL ) in a short period of time. This isthe proper SPOKEN TAMIL used even by educated Tamilians with one another. It was foundfrom the writer's experience that these notes were well-suited to his students who couldspare only a limited time for learning the language.

8 The students wanted very much tohave these notes put in the form of a book. This was done in a limited edition and waswell received by the students and the first edition was prepared in a hurry, many mistakes crept in, which havebeen corrected in this second edition. It will be appreciated if any further mistakes andother suitable suggestions to improve this book are brought to the notice of the this edition the following have also been added:1. Expansion drills2.

9 Practical Everyday dialogues4. Short stories5. Sentences6 Grammar at a glanceThis book is almost a self-instructor. However, it must be supplemented withrecorded tapes by a Tamilian or preferably, by having the pronunciation, intonations, etc.,checked by a Tamilian is SPOKEN somewhat differently in different parts of TAMIL Nadu. But all thedifferent dialects cannot be taught at one and the same time. When one dialect has beenlearned, it will not be hard to learn and understand other dialects as well.

10 The spokenTamil form, which is commonly heard from the Tamilians at home, at the market, busstand, etc., in the northern districts of TAMIL Nadu, is used in this s book is made for those who want to start speaking TAMIL without the help ofthe TAMIL script. As this is just a short course of lessons, only COMMON vocabulary isused. Here and there a few words are inserted at an earlier stage to add interest tosentences and phrases in lessons. Vocabulary must be steadily increased.