Wednesday, December 26, 2007

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.

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