(A foundation course for the beginners to learn Tamil language with 30 alphabet notes and a few sound symbols). This curriculum is specially designed for students in Matric & CBSC schools in Tamil Nadu and students in other states and overseas countries.
Age limit to join the course: 7 to 70 years, Duration: One year
The course curriculum is devised for the learners to learn Tamil as a sound- based musical language with 12 vowel notes and 18 consonant notes and with few vowel sound symbols to understand the rhythmic grammar structures of Tholkappiar, the first formal Tamil grammarian. The curriculum mainly insists the link sounds between the vowel notes and the consonant notes. In fact, the beauty of the Tamil language with marvellous grammar structures spans with the merging of vowel and consonant sounds and how to allot letter shapes to those merged sounds known as vowel-consonant sounds. In the curriculum at every stage the learner will acquaint with how to extract a vowel note and a consonant note from a merged sound and vice versa. This acquaintance of linked sounds and their extractions are more vital to understand the Tamil grammatical structures.
The learners would really enjoy this pattern of learning the Tamil language as they move from known to unknown and unfold their hidden talents to form words by themselves.
After completing the course they would be able to read, write , listen and speak Tamil language fluently and acquaint themselves with the rhythmic grammar patterns of Tholkappiyar.
