Because I will be going to the Southern state of Tamil Nadu, they speak Tamil. We will be in the Coimbatore region of Tamil Nadu, and in the villages that we will be staying in, they will not speak as much English as the more urbanized regions of India. We have the great opportunity to learn Tamil, from a native!! His name is Vankat, and the first day of class, brought us rava paniyaram, a popular sweet in Tamil Nadu. (I think that's what it's called...) It was different taste but I ate it with an open mind :)
Vankat is a very sweet teacher, he is so excited to teach us Tamil. He started out by giving us a brief history of India and Tamil. He then taught us our first few phrases. "vanakam" which means "hello", "yappuddi irukkan" means "how are you?" and "naan nalla iruken" which means "I am doing well!". It was fun trying to imitate his native sound of Tamil. He would randomly point at one of us and he expected us to say a Tamil phrase. He is really nice and smiley, I can't wait to learn more Tamil from that sweet little man!
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