Okay this has been on my mind for a while. Unfortunately I've never studied proper classical music and can't easily identify the breakdowns of a song in terms of classical music. I absolutely adore Ilayaraja songs, especially the middle portions that are in a different style than the main portion and have no clue whether to call this the anupallavi or the charanam. Can someone use a Ilayaraja song to explain this to me?

what attracts you the most to his songs? what makes you listen to his songs over and over?

I'm someone who recently started listening to his songs and instantly fell in love with his voice. I do not understand tamil or telugu and finding lyrics translations of his songs has been difficult but still i want to understand his works on a deeper level. As in if there are any specific themes or styles he commonly uses in his songs- lyrics, compositions etc? ( I heard someone say he mostly uses themes of nature in his songs)

I thought asking other fans for their opinions, perspectives on what they like most about him might help me out. I would also love more song suggestions if you have some! thank you!

Hey!!! I am a final year Counselling Psychology student. And I am offering free counselling sessions (Pro Bono) as a part of my syllabus. Online sessions are available (phone call/ gmeet). Languages I’m comfortable with are Tamil and English. Ping if you are interested!!

I'm going to enter grade 10 and my tamil is bad. I got 70/80 in Tamil Annual exam. If I did that in my board exam, my percentage will be realy low. It takes me a long time to read a paragraph and I make so much spelling mistakes. I don't know where ற, ர, ந ன,ண, ல, ள, ழ goes and I need help.

I want to improve in the these aspects. I have promised to read and write one page of tamil everyday till my 10th boards. Is that enough?

Also how I improve my tamil handwriting? When I write many pages in my exam it gets progressively worse. And I don't know how to proffesionaly write sentecnces. All the sentences that I write sound like it was written by 8 year olds.

Also PS: I have been only studying tamil in school from grade 5 (only for 5 years).

Please help

just checking if any one has renewed interest or need for the sticker?

In some dialects, 'soora' means 'dirty'. What is the etymology of that?

How would you rate the complexity and richness of Sai Abhyankkar's Tamil vocabulary? Does he use colloquial Tamil effectively, or does it feel forced or unnatural?

/r/tamil

I came across this research-based article which lists 150+ weapons used by the ancient Tamils in war and other purposes in the ancient period. It's from a Tamil website named Yarl.com

I would like to know the thoughts of the Redditors on this. It looks like an Ilangkai Tamilian had written this 5 years back.

பண்டைய தமிழர்களால் பயன்படுத்தப்பட்ட ஆயுதங்கள் & படைக்கலன்கள் - 150+ படிமங்களுடன்

Hello, and greetings to everyone. I have a predicament, can anyone confirm if the translation is correct for. I love you, dear. நான் உன்னை நேசிக்கிறேன், அன்பே Nāṉ uṉṉai nēcikkiṟēṉ, aṉpē

நாம் முதன்முறையாக நடனமாடும்போது, ​​

நமது உடல்களின் இந்த நடனம் தொடங்கும் போது, ​​

சிவன் பார்வதியின் காளிக்கு தன்னை அடிபணியச் செய்வது போல நான் படுத்துக் கொள்வேன்,

உன் பாலியல் வெறியை நீ ஆட வைக்கும் மேடையாக மாறுவேன்.

அப்போது நாம் ஒருவருக்கொருவர் என்ன மாதிரியான தாண்டவங்களைச் செய்வோம்?

அப்போது நாம் ஒருவருக்கொருவர் என்ன வெளிப்பாடுகளை வெளிப்படுத்துவோம்?

நாம் கடைசியாக நடனமாடும்போது, ​​

உன் உடல் காகிதத்தோலில் ஆழமாகப் புதைந்திருக்கும் உன் திருவாசகத்தைத் தேடும்போது, ​​

உன் உச்சக்கட்டத்தின் நிர்வாண நிர்வாணத்தை நான் வெளியிடும்போது, ​​

உன் திருக்குறள் கெஞ்சுவதை நான் கேட்கத் தொடங்குகிறேன்,

"காலத்தின் இறுதி வரை என்னை வணங்குவதை நிறுத்தாதே."

First attempts at writing Tamil poetry. I am happy with it but I would love to read critique, be brutal if need be because I want to get better. Thank you in advance.

I heard of a song back in the day several years ago and wanted to know what it was called and where it's from, when I heard it, it was a Tamil song and I'm pretty sure there was a man and woman singing it

I tried Google Search for a Song, I got two songs that sound very very similar but they were Malayalam and Telugu

From my understanding this song is from a Telugu movie called Parugu and translated to Malayalam and Tamil into 'Krishna', it features Allu Arjun, Sheela etc

I think the Malayalam version is called 'Chempaneer Poove' https://youtu.be/ITPaXeXoM2s?si=NW3iLVczoxJUYmkB By someone called Mani Sharma?

The Telugu one must be 'eWJDzbnvOxi

https://youtu.be/FM7wLLzTNhE?si=f-SGQpv0AvKRkg88 Both this and the Malayalam are very similar to the one I remember but my one was Tamil and I'm pretty sure a female voice could also be heard unless I'm rlly tripping

This is the closest to the exact song I listened to before, but even this is literally just titled 'Tamil love song' like wtf? Is this so unpopular that you can't find the Tamil dubbed version anywhere? - https://youtu.be/udHq_bs2YzY?si=pFjn8eWJDzbnvOxi

The movie itself and it's songs in all 3 languages seems to be either very old, very unpopular, very unknown or all, I literally can't find much on this whole thing at all

If anyone knows anything and could help out that would be so very nice... Thanks!!

#1. ஏடன் :
an exclamation addressed familiarly to a close Male friend or to a male of lower status than one who addresses him or a male child

ஏடா & அடா are other forms of ஏடன்.

And, டா is the short form of "ஏடன்/ஏடா/அடா" used in spoken Tamil.

Spoken Tamil examples: "வா டா‌", "போ டா", "தா டா", "ஏன் டா?"

அடே is a Vocative form used to call a male friend, etc.

Other forms used as exclamation commonly: அடடே, அடேடே, அடாடா, அடடா, etc.

#2. ஏடி :
an exclamation addressed familiarly to a close Female friend or to a woman of lower status than one who addresses her or a female child.

And, டி‌ is the short form of "ஏடி" used in spoken Tamil.

Spoken Tamil examples: "வா டி", "போ டி", "தா டி", "ஏன் டி?"

அடியே is a Vocative form used to call a female friend, etc.

#Snippet:
എടാ-எடா and എടീ-எடீ are the forms used in the Malayalam language.

Hello all, I want to learn tamil via self study. My goal is to understand conversational level tamil and if possible complex literary works if possible eg. Varnams , keertanams , etc. Languages known to me - hindi, english and maithili It would be very kind of you to suggest me some resources, books or online lectures. Nandri in advance 🙏🙏

Why வாய்மை வெல்லும் instead of உண்மை வெல்லும்?

Hi, my husband needs help recollecting the name of a movie he watched many years ago.

The story is about a boy who receives messages from a girl who tells him where she can find her. At the start he is not interested but slowly starts getting invested in trying to find this girl. But he keeps almost seeing her but not meeting her. Then she stops sending messages for a bit because she is sick in the hospital. The boy somehow discovers the reason why she stops sending the messages but it's too late because she has already died. He finds out he funeral is happening on the same day and he rushes to see her. But her face is still hidden and he never gets the chance to see her even in death.

I think he said the movie was from the 2000s

Heyy, I want to get a word tattooed in Tamil but I’m confused. Please share some of your favourite words along with their meanings, it would help a lot!

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My grandmother (Kongu Tamil) used these lingos,

Kitchen = சமைக்கிற வூடு/சோறாக்கிற வூடு.
Pooja room = படைக்கிற வூடு.
Bedroom = படுக்கிற தாவு.
Bathroom = குளிக்கிற வூடு.
Backyard = புடக்காலி.
Hall = கொட்டாய்.
Central Courtyard= தொட்டி வாசல்.
Car Parking area = (simply) வண்டி நிப்பாட்டுற தாவு, etc.

This is different from the popularly used words like சமையற்கட்டு, etc.

Interestingly, my Periyamma even today uses the word "தண்ணி room" for "Bathroom" because it is the wet area (even after she went to USA) and we in Kongu region also use the phrase "தண்ணி ஊத்துறது" to mean "to take bath".

At present, "சமையற்கட்டு (used by mom), புடக்காலி, கொட்டாய், சந்து, தொட்டிவாசல் (Central courtyard)" are the Tamil words, related to the house, still used in our daily speech. And, these are English words "Bedroom, Bathroom, restroom, Car park, kitchen (used with the siblings), terrace, verandah, etc" used in our speech, at present.
I see a gradual shift in the lingos that was used by grandma, my Periyamma, My mother and my siblings, etc (slowly replaced by English words).

So, in your Tamil dialect, how do you call the different parts of the house and how different it was in your grandparents' speech? In the comments, add your dialect too.

Sync it 💀

So here's my problem: I’ve got this super catchy Tamil song stuck in my head, but I’m not a native Tamil speaker, so I have zero idea what the lyrics are. All I’ve got is the melody, but when I try to remember the words, it’s just a jumble of gibberish. Seriously, it's like my brain decided to make up its own language. 🤷‍♂️

I’ve tried humming it to Shazam, Google. No luck. 😩

Here’s what I do know:

It’s a Tamil song (obviously)

The tune is catchy as heck (like, I’ll probably be singing this in my sleep)

The lyrics? Total gibberish in my head.

Will possibly be taking this to my grave 🥲

Update 1: Reddit unfortunately won't let me DM people as my account apparently is new😭. I might have to find a way out by welcoming a colossal embarrassment uploading it out in the open!

Thanks a lot for the helpful souls who reached out.

Seeing one user getting fired with laughs by everyone previously was really scary lmao

YOLO! F*ck it. Here we go! Please Please be merciful!🙏🙏

humming link!

Update 2: IT'S BEEN FOUND! This bit from 3:10 - 3:25 has been stuck in my head forever. Someone just gave their everything for this!!

Anegan - Roja Kadale

PS: Unfortunately the video doesn't do much justice to such a soulful song lul😆

Hey,

Did anyone in this sub, sat for this course's exam. How was the paper of you wrote this exam ? Numericals were asked more ?

My family is tamil. i don't know tamil i really wanna learn it. My grandfather was loco pilot so our family shifted to Central India, i need to learn Tamil

அல்ல இரண்டுமே சரியா? அப்படியானால் பொருளில் வேறுபாடு உள்ளதா?

Hi I’m an Indian Tamil that grew up in a western country, so I’ve been trying to learn Tamil more. I have a mallu friend who mentioned that Malayalam is closer to old Tamil and modern Tamil? I was wondering if this was true?