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101. Speaking Tamil

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Hello language Lovers! Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. This week, we’re talking about Tamil with Aysha from Tamil for Kids.

In this episode, we talk about Tamil as it’s spoken in Singapore, where Aysha is from, and in Tamil Nadu in India. We talk about similarities between Malayalam and Tamil and how, through films and pop culture, she has been able to understand and communicate in basic Hindi. We discuss formal and spoken Tamil and the ways in which they differ and the Tamil grammar and alphabet including borrowings from Sanskrit. There’s also a moment here where Aysha is reading something I’m holding up in Tamil and if you want to see what we’re talking about, you can see images on my social media or my website to follow along. Aysha and I talk about

how clothing plays a part in strengthening familial bonds and linking generations, multilingualism in India and she tells us how she’s helping kids to learn Tamil in Singapore and beyond with Tamil for Kids.

Big thank you to Aysha for this fun conversation full of Tamil language, culture and laughs! If you enjoy episodes of Speaking Tongues, don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the Speaking Tongues Podcast on Apple Podcasts and like and subscribe on YouTube so that other language lovers like ourselves can find the show! And, If you’ve been a long time listener of the show or a recent listener, you can now support the show on Buy Me a Coffee dot com. Patreon extras are coming soon! Links to all platforms are in the show notes! Ok! Let's chat!

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IG : https://www.instagram.com/tamilforkids/

Website: https://tamil-for-kids.com/

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