i am chinese and want 2 learn tamil language in basic conversation. any course available? (via Stomp)

Thank you for your query.

The Centre For Language Studies at National University Singapore offers Mandarin, Indonesian, French, German, Japanese, Malay, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese language courses. Their contact details is as follows:
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
9 Arts Link, AS4/02-05,
Singapore 117570
Tel: 6516 6346 Fax: 6777 7736
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/langmod.htm

NUS Extension also offers Tamil courses, however its based on demand. They can be contacted at:
Tel: 6338 8400
Email: nexquery@nus.edu.sg
http://www.nus.edu.sg/nex/

You can also refer to the following books available at our libraries:

1. Title Learn Tamil in 30 days through English / chief editor, Krishna Gopal Vikal ; Senthil Nathan & K. Parthiban, editors.
Other Title Learn Tamil in thirty days through English
Publisher New Delhi : Diamond Books, 2006.
Series Title Diamond language series
Call number: English 494.811824 LEA

2. Title Colloquial Tamil [sound recording] / [R.E. Asher and E. Annamalai].
Author Asher, R. E.
Publisher London ; New York : Routledge, p2002.
Series Title Colloquial series.
Notes Compact discs.
"The complete course for beginners"--Container.
Statement of responsibility from container.
Recorded by Rageswari Buddhan ; K. Jeyachandran ; Sampath Kumar ; Chandra Sureshkumar ; Gary King.
Summary These 2 CDs, recorded by native speakers, reinforce material from the book. They also contain additional exercises to help you develop your pronunciation and listening skills.
Call number: RAV Tamil 494.811824 ASH pt. 2CDs
(Above titles are located at Lee Kong Chian Reference Librarian - book is for reference only)

3. Title Colloquial Tamil : the complete course for beginners / R. E. Asher and E. Annamalai.
Author Asher, R. E.
Publisher London : Routledge, 2002.
Call number: English 494.811824 ASH

You can check availability of the books at our online catalogue, http://vistaweb.nlb.gov.sg.

I hope the above information has been useful.

there are how many langauge in the world and how can i learn or maybe even how to get those boks

Thank you for using our ASK! service.

You asked how many languages there are in the world and how to go about learning them.

There are about 6,700 languages that still exist in the world, and some of the more popular ones include Mandarin, Spanish and Hindi. The following table lists the language and the number of native speakers there are in the world:
Language No. of speakers (who speak it as a first language)
English 341 million
Mandarin 867 million
Spanish 352 milliom
Hindi (Hindi-Urdu) 180 million
Japanese 122 million
Malay 25 million
German 95 million
French 51 million
Italian 55 million
You can find out more about the above languages and other languages which I've not listed at the following websites:
- http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/
- http://www.ethnologue.com/
(all sites last accessed 26 Dec, 2007.)
(For the above weblinks, you are advised to please click through to the respective site's main page to read their Terms & Conditions for use of the site before continuing)

If you wish to learn a certain language, you can go to any library and look for the shelf with the call no. 400. There are books on languages such as German, French and Italian on this shelf. Alternatively, you can check availability of the books at our online catalogue, http://vistaweb.nlb.gov.sg.

You can also enquire with language schools in Singapore on the rates they charge for language courses. The following website lists some language schools in Singapore and their respective contact numbers: http://www.worldwide.edu/ci/singapore/flschools_adult.html

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