Payilagam: Learn Tamil (English)

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Learn to speak Tamil methodically and quickly, in the form of audio lessons. Each lesson gives space to repeat new words and conjunctions, building up your confidence and understanding of the Tamil language in a comprehensive way. The type of Tamil taught in these lessons is the most versatile form of Tamil, known as `Thooya Tamil' recognised as the international Tamil form. This form of Tamil is the most broadly understood amongst Tamil speakers around the globe, and also maintains original as well as popular vocabulary and form.

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    • Jan 21, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Lesson 3.02.C: Simple Present Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 6:11


    We try the future tense in different ways with using to 'to go', and words that we already went through like 'bus' as well as reviewing the 'TMP' structure.

    Lesson 3.02.B: Simple Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 12:24


    We practice 'to go' in the future with words like 'tomorrow' in all the person perspectives, and try to make double sentences.

    Lesson 3.02.A: Simple Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025 13:38


    We learn the structure of the simple future tense as 'will go' and get introduced to the colloquial form of 'to go'.

    Lesson 3.01.K: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 13:15


    We learn to construct sentences like 'going to use...' adding words 'for this' and 'computer' and 'washing / laundry machine' and 'Monday'

    Lesson 3.01.J: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 13:07


    We continue to learn to construct new sentences using words like 'electricity', with verbs like 'to use' adding words like 'a lot / too much' and 'Tuesday' in the future tense.

    Lesson 3.01.I: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 11:01


    We learn to construct new sentences pluralising words like 'washing / laundry machine' and 'computer', with verbs like 'to use' adding words like 'electricity' in the future tense.

    Lesson 3.01.H: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024 10:08


    We learn to construct new sentences using words like 'electricity', with verbs like 'to use' adding words like 'home' in the future tense.

    Lesson 3.01.G: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024 11:40


    We learn how to say 'laundry', 'laundry machine', with verbs like 'to use' in the future. We also begin days of the week beginning 'Monday', and 'Tuesday'

    Resistance to Sanskrit in Tamil Nadu | National Language Hindi? | Caste & Gita

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2024 12:50


    This video podcast takes a brief look at some of the reasons for the resistance of South India (Tamil Nadu and Kerala) to Sanskrit and Hindi, and the outlook of protecting ones language and culture as a means and motive of social justice and the annihilation of caste.

    Lesson 3.01.F: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 11:44


    We practice the verb 'to use' and Monday in the future tense using 'going to'. We also learn to say the word 'Machine'.

    Lesson 3.01.E: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 10:30


    We practice 'to sleep' and 'to eat' with future tense using going to. We also begin the days of the week starting with 'Monday'.

    Lesson 3.01.D: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 9:42


    We learn future of 'to come' using 'going to' with words like 'here', 'library', 'restaurant' etc.

    Lesson 3.01.C: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2024 10:22


    We learn how to use 'going to' as an auxiliary form to talk about the future, using verbs that we have already learnt

    Lesson 3.01.B: Future Tense

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 10:18


    We begin with learning the structure of future tense with the auxilliary verb 'to go' by saying 'we are going to be'

    Lesson 3.01.A: Tenses

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 1:15


    Introduction to Patreon and the structure of Payilagam

    Why is spoken Tamil different from Written Tamil? | Dialect vs Diglossia | Sanskrit | | Sandeep Sarah

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2024 10:29


    This video explores the difference between dialects and diglossia, what makes so much variety in Tamil, and what makes them unique, why is written Tamil different from Tamil? This video looks into the reasons to why Tamil contains such unique variety that don't exist in many other languages.

    Lesson 2.05.Z: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review End

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2024 11:47


    We practice more of the possessive with miscellaneous words like 'coffee', 'water', 'computers', 'vegetables', 'books', 'airplane', 'restaurant' and 'friend' and verbs like 'to drink' 'to call', 'to study' and 'to eat'. This marks the end of Lesson 2 review. If you feel confident at the end of this with 90% of the content of Lesson 2, please go ahead with Lesson 3. If not, nothing to worry about, just go back to the beginning of Lesson 2 or wherever you feel less confident, and redo the lesson till you feel confortable with it :)

    Lesson 2.05.Y: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 12:19


    We practice words like 'coffee', 'tea', and verbs 'to drink' with questions like 'what', 'when' and why' as well as the possessive

    Is Tamil the oldest language? | Introduction | Sandeep Sarah

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2024 8:17


    In this video Payilagam method of learning Tamil is introduced along with a basic introduction of a comparison of classical languages, social movements in Tamil Nadu and the perspective of Tamil history brought to you in Payilagam. Links: Patreon: https://patreon.com/Payilagam?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@payilagampodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/payilagampodcast?igsh=MTR4bjBrdHV1cGVu&utm_source=qr

    Lesson 2.05.X: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 11:48


    We practice imperatives like 'to be' and 'to eat' and sentences using possessive forms.

    Lesson 2.05.W: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 10:51


    We practice sentences like 'she is coming Madurai in the morning', and the question format of this, 'do you drink mllk?' and 'S/he (p) is your friend.

    Lesson 2.05.U: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2024 10:57


    We practice sentences like 'who is there in Coimbatore?', 'This is your vehicle' 'We are in their house' and 'I'm eating at your restaurant'

    Lesson 2.05.T: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 10:13


    We practice words like 'forest', 'beach', 'flower', 'ocean', 'fish', 'bag', 'vegetable' and 'fruit'

    Lesson 2.05.S: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 9:27


    We practice the verbs 'to work', and words like 'computer' 'however' and 'morning' 'afternoon'

    Lesson 2.05.R: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 11:11


    We practice the questions "do you eat fish?", "where is that vehicle?", "Is that the sea?" "Is that the beach?", "are they [Human and Non-human] going to the beach?", "Is that vehicle going to the beach?", "where is this computer?", "Are you (polite) working on the computer?" and some answers thereto.

    Lesson 2.05.Q: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2024 13:36


    We practice questions like "is only the vegetable in the bag?", "Is there [only] fruit in the shop?", "what is that?", "what is in the bottle?", and sentences like "There is water in the bottle", "Which tree[s] is / are there in Auroville?", "Does this plant exist in Thanjavoor?" "Does that flower exist in Thirunelvelli?"

    Lesson 2.05.P: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2024 10:50


    We practice the questions "who is here", "what is your name" "what are their names", "why is s/he going/ here / in Pondy, this afternoon", "do you drink milk"and "Is the vegetable in the bag" and answering those questions, while pointing out some colloquials, and recognising the difference between long vowels and short vowels.

    Lesson 2.05.O: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 13:07


    We practice the verbs 'to do', 'to call', 'to use', words 'now', today and sentences like 'who are you', 'what is your name', 'why are you here' and introduction to dialects, usage of madame and sir, and making these sentences into questions.

    Lesson 2.05.N: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 11:12


    We practice words 'to come', 'to go' and Tamil city names like Coimbatore (Kovai), Thanjavoor (Thanjai) etc.

    Lesson 2.05.M: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 11:46


    We practice 'to read / study', 'to eat' 'only', 'also' and they (NH) as an object in the sentence.

    Lesson 2.05.M: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 11:32


    We practice the verbs 'to study' and the plural of it

    Lesson 2.05.L: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 10:32


    We practice verbs 'to go' 'to speak' 'to use' and words 'knife' like 'also' 'however / but' 'only'

    Lesson 2.05.K: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 12:20


    We review 'Australia' 'to use' 'airplane' 'bus' etc.

    Lesson 2.05.J: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 14:16


    We review the words 'to go' 'to be' 'to come' 'by bus' 'today morning' 'airplane' etc.

    Lesson 2.05.I: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2024 10:45


    We review the words 'to come' 'to go' 'to be' and 'bus' specifically with differentiating '[we exclusive]' and 'we [Inclusive]' and with emphasis,

    Lesson 2.05.H: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2024 13:24


    We review the words 'Chennai' 'to go' 'to be' ' to come' 'from' and 'to' 'tonight' 'by bus' 'in the bus' with confirmatory questions, and with various person perspectives

    Lesson 2.05.G: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 10:32


    We review the words 'in the morning' 'to speak' 'to eat' 'but / however' 'today morning' 'today early in the morning' 'noon' 'afternoon' before noon' 'AM and PM' with various person perspectives

    Speak Tamil Like a Tamilian 006: Tamil Politeness

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2024 5:41


    Where should I be polite in Tamil? Here is the answer...

    Lesson 2.05.F: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2024 11:07


    We review the words 'sleepiness' with 'that' 'today' 'England' in Tamil, 'from England', 'to come' 'to speak' 'Pondy' 'from Pondy', 'here' and 'there' 'where' and how to use emphasis in a sentence

    Speak Tamil LIke a Tamilian 005: Gender Neutral Tamil

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 1:56


    Is Tamil Gender Neutral? Where do we use genders in Tamil?

    Lesson 2.05.E: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2024 10:30


    We learn to say Tamil Nadu correctly. We review 'from' in both ways, 'to come' and 'to go' 'to sleep' and 'sleepiness', but/however', 'from Chennai' 'from Tamil Nadu, the difference between 'they' for humans and 'they' for non-humans,

    Speak Tamil Like a Tamilian Episode 004: Tamil Nadu

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2024 4:08


    Learn how to say the name of the state / nation / country Tamil Nadu

    Lesson 2.05.D: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 10:36


    We review 'to drink', the exclusive 'we', 'early morning', 'to come', 'from' 'from there' and questions

    Lesson 2.05.C: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 9:11


    We review 'sleepiness', 'feeling sleepy', 'to drink' 'tea' 'water' 'in the morning' with various conjugations

    Speak Tamil Like A Tamilian Episode 003: Thank you Welcome

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 5:48


    Learn to say Thank you, 'gratitude' and Welcome, 'gladness' correctly, and culturally

    Lesson 2.05.B: Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 11:15


    We review the verbs 'to drink' and 'to sleep', and the words 'cow[s]', 'goat[s]', 'water', 'at home', 'in the morning' 'tonight' and 'sleepiness' 'I am feeling sleepy'

    Lesson 2.05.A: : Learn Tamil Lesson 2 Review Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 3:31


    Introduction to reviewing Lesson 1 and Lesson 2, perfecting all the words, verbs and conjugations learnt therein

    Speak Tamil Like A Tamilian Episode 002: Learn how to say Tamil

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 2:48


    Learn how to say the name of the language 'Tamil' correctly

    Lesson 2.04.E: Learn Tamil Possessive Pronouns

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 26:12


    We learn and practice the words 'or' 'coffee' 'tea' 'this evening' 'beach' through questions and possessive pronouns.

    Speak Tamil Like A Tamilian Episode 001: Greeting

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2024 6:17


    We learn how to greet, good morning, good evening, Vanakkam sir, Vanakkam ma'am in Tamil

    Lesson 2.04.D: Learn Tamil Possessive Pronouns

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 21:25


    We learn and practice the words 'coffee' 'tea' 'to drink' 'morning' and 'in the morning' 'what' 'why' 'when' 'on which day' 'on that day'

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