By the end
What you'll build
- Identify and correctly use the eight everyday Tamil case relationships (வேற்றுமை) with their written suffixes and spoken equivalents
- Apply the core puṇarcci (sandhi) rules — hard-consonant doubling and y/v glide insertion — when words join
- Conjugate Tamil verbs across present, past and future with the correct person-number-gender endings in the written register
- Convert fluently between formal written verb forms and their everyday spoken Chennai-register contractions
- Recognise and fix the most common spoken-vs-written register mistakes learners make
- Read and understand real Tamil signboards, shop names and public notices
- Read a Tamil restaurant menu and everyday news headlines with confidence
- Read tricky uyirmey ligatures (irregular உ/ஊ forms) and Grantha loanword letters accurately
- Type Tamil on your own phone using phonetic transliteration
- Write short, natural Tamil messages in script and choose the register a situation calls for
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
38 lessons across 7 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.