Speaking & Learning Tamil
Posted on | 1 commentI know it’s everyone’s life mission to learn to speak Tamil, a language spoken in the south eastern part of India, Sri Lanka and parts of Singapore and Malaysia.
Since everyone I know is wanting to learn this language (particularly Aravind!), I’ve created a quick cheat sheet on some of the most common words and phrases that I’ve picked up and are useful.
vanakkam – welcome
nandri – thanks
ama – yes
po – go
sikiram vanga – come soon
ponga – go (formal version)
toppie – tummy
pasi – hunger
pasikidu- i am hungry
naan sapida pooren ayya – I am going to eat, sir
thanni – water
aravind yendhiri – Aravind, Get Up!!!
vanga – Come
siri – smile,laugh
sapadu – Meals
kaalai(morining) vanakkam
Thappu – wrong
edhu thappu – this is wrong
kollathe – don’t kill me!
naan alugirean – Iam crying!
The words in bold are my most used phrases as I have to tell the freshers what’s going wrong and wake Aravind up in the morning.
Hope this helps you on your way to becoming fluent in Tamil like me 
If you want to know any other simple and useful words and phrases, post a comment or shoot me an email
peterclaridge ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com
Just replace the ‘at’ with @ and ‘dot’ with .
It’s really that simple!
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