Tamil-English/English-Tamil Dictionary & Phrasebook: Romanized (Hippocrene Dictionary and Phrasebook)

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not good !!!

this is a nice phrasebook for English speakers. If you are a reader of Tamil, this is not the best book. It does have helpful cultural information, and it helps English readers with Tamil pronunciation.

There are limited Tamil resources available in the US, and this was the first dictionary/phrasebook I found. It does not use the Tamil script-- it only offers romanised words, which I find frustrating as a beginner trying to learn how to spell Tamil words. The phrases seem useful; the two-page cultural overviews and tourist tips are just half-hearted attempts. It's better than nothing, but not a substitute for a more complete dictionary.

The language of tamil-nadu people. A.R. Rahman is a speaker of this language. I want to be able to converse in this language to communicate with indian people.

In my opinion, the book title should have been "Dictionary & Phrase Book For A Traveler"!Otherwise the book is useful.

As the other review points out, this dictionary only uses Romanized language and no Tamil script. In fairness, spoken Tamil and written Tamil are different which might account for not wanting to include it...There are actually some decent online Tamil dictionaries which have both the Romanized and Tamil script. Google has scanned a few public domain dictionaries. Check out the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia put together by the University of Chicago: [...]However, if you are looking at this page, you probably want something you can take with you and you will end up buying this item no matter what. Get it used if you can and know that it is very limited in number of entries.

This book is not meant for learning English through Tamil. This is meant for learning Tamil through English. The very title of the book misled me. That's why I made the mistake of buying this book.

I have learnt quiet a bit of tamil from this dictionary but you have to be careful as some of it is indian not same languagebut still a great learning curve 10/10

タミル語の辞書の中では2004年と発行年月が新しく、新書ほどのサイズなので持ち歩き等便利だと思います。本の半分は「タミル→英」「英→タミル」になっており、後半は会話文が記載されています。わずかですが、文法の説明等も加わっています。すべてアルファベット表記なのでタミル語にあまりなじみのない人でも気軽に使えるものだと思います。ただ、学習にはあまり活かせないことと発音のために母音の上に色々な記号がついていて少し読みづらいことが気になりました。タミル語は語尾がけっこう複雑に変化し、単語と訳だけでは意味がよく分からないので、その点も物足りなく感じました。会話文の箇所は音声の確認が出来るCDが付属していると旅行などに役立つだろうなと思いました。

Not a disctionary like English n Hindi

The romanizied tamil in this boom is so so so hard to pronounce even within a far percentage of accuracy. Plus the tamil in this book must be an indian dialect as opposed to a true sri lankan dialect. I am afraid we did not find it very helpful.