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On Wednesday, 18.05.2022 I took the TestDaF at the Goethe-Institut Malaysia. In Malaysia there are only two places you can take TestDaF, eit...

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Tamil for Better Language Understanding

(Written on June 26, 2013)

Tamil helps me to understand other languages better, because Tamil has the past, present, and future tenses of English, the flexibility of borrowing foreign language words like how Bahasa does, the nasal vowels of Portuguese, the sentence structure of Japanese with verbs at the end, the case endings of Russian, the respect language of Japanese, and a big difference between the formal written and colloquial spoken form like Cantonese. Tamil also trains phonetics because it has two R sounds and three L sounds, however it doesn't have F and Z sounds while J and H are marginal, and the writing doesn't distinguish between K and G or B and P. Vaalga Tamil Moli!

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