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| Talk Now! Learn Tamil | 
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| From: EuroTalk Limited
Category: Software
List Price: £24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2595
Platforms: Windows, Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1843520583
EAN: 9781843520580
ASIN: B00004YZIP
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Almost unusable December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with the previous reviewer. Absolutely pointless to give the written forms only. The Tamil writing system is extremely complex and difficult. The sounds of Tamil are also very difficult for a native English speaker. Transliteration should have been provided throughout. Forcing all languages in this 'Talk Now!' series into the same mould (i.e. providing visual information only in the writing system of the respective language) is a big mistake, because whilst it may be fine for French, Slovene, Swahili and so on, it's certainly not fine for languages with unfamiliar and complex writing systems. If you want to learn some Tamil, get 'Colloquial Tamil' (book and CDs) which has its faults but will at least give you a fair chance of learning something.
Tamil may be a difficult language... September 24, 2003
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
but there's no need to attempt to teach the basics this badly - Some basic words and phrases are covered, but in my view some of the pronounciation needed to be broken down - the sounds are very different to English. And what on earth is the point of providing a printable picture dictionary in the Tamil script only? Maybe this format works for certain languages (the praise on the blurb can't be invented, can it?), but here it fails abysmally.
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