Professional Tamil for the Workplace (L5)

By the end

What you'll build

• Greet, introduce yourself and address colleagues, seniors and customers using correct workplace honorifics (nīṅga and the -ṅga verb endings)
• Take part in meetings — open a discussion, give an opinion, agree or disagree politely, ask for clarification and report progress
• Make polite requests, grant or refuse them, and apologise professionally without causing offence
• Handle customer-facing conversations, complaints, de-escalation and phone calls in polite service Tamil
• Tell spoken workplace Tamil apart from formal written Tamil and switch between them deliberately
• Write short professional WhatsApp messages and formal emails, including a leave request and a message to a client
• Type Tamil on your own phone or keyboard for professional messages
• Present a short structured status update aloud with clear openings, points and closings
• Recognise and self-correct the common learner mistakes — over-familiar forms, wrong honorifics and spoken endings leaking into writing
• Navigate Tamil-English code-switching etiquette in a real Chennai / Tamil Nadu workplace

Curriculum

What's inside

6 modules · 34 lessons

1. 01

   Module 1 — Workplace Foundations & Register

   6 lessons
   • How Professional Tamil Works (start here)
   • Greetings, Introductions & Designations at Workpronunciation card
   • Honorifics & Politeness: nīṅga, -ṅga and Respectful 'he/she'
   • Choose the Polite Form (fill in the blank)fill blank
   • Core Workplace Vocabularyword power
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Module 2 — Meetings & Team Communication

   6 lessons
   • Opening & Running a Meeting (listening)listening lab
   • Opinions, Agreeing & Disagreeing Politely (speaking)speaking lab
   • Asking Questions & Clarifying in Meetings (fill in the blank)fill blank
   • Reporting Status & Progress (build the sentence)sentence builder
   • Meeting Phrases — Spaced Reviewflashcard sr
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Module 3 — Requests, Refusals & Etiquette

   5 lessons
   • Polite Requests & Permissions (listening)listening lab
   • Refusing & Declining Without Offence (speaking)speaking lab
   • Apologising & Taking Responsibility (fill in the blank)fill blank
   • Code-Switching Etiquette: Tamil + English at Work
   • Error Analysis: Too Casual → Fix It Politequiz
4. 04

   Module 4 — Customer-Facing Tamil

   5 lessons
   • Customer Greetings & Service Scripts (listening)listening lab
   • Handling Complaints & De-escalation (speaking)speaking lab
   • Phone & Helpdesk Tamil (fill in the blank)fill blank
   • Customer-Service & Front-Desk Vocabularyword power
   • Module 4 Checkpointquiz
5. 05

   Module 5 — Professional Writing (Formal Register)

   6 lessons
   • Writing Register: Spoken vs Written Tamil
   • Type Professional Tamil on Your Keyboardlipi type
   • Write It: Short WhatsApp to a Colleaguewriting lab
   • Write It: Formal Email — Leave Request to Your Managerwriting lab
   • Write It: Formal Message to a Customer / Clientwriting lab
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Module 6 — Presenting & Workplace Capstone

   6 lessons
   • Present a Status Update Aloud (speaking)speaking lab
   • Numbers, Dates, Money & Schedules at Work (build the sentence)sentence builder
   • Full Workplace Dialogue (listening)listening lab
   • Capstone: A Workday in Tamil (speaking roleplay)speaking lab
   • Final Checkpoint — Professional Tamilquiz
   • + 1 more lesson

The shape of it

How this course works