The written and spoken forms of Tamil are very different from each other. Although this is a common trait of major Indian languages, it makes it difficult for beginners to learn Tamil. The written form when spoken might sound very old-fashioned and pretentious.8 sept 2020
Is Tamil the hardest language to learn?
Is Tamil difficult to learn? Well, the answer is quite complicated. Learning Tamil is very subjective to the person who is learning. Tamil can be a hard language to learn or it might be easier than expected.8 sept 2020
How long does Tamil take to learn?
Tamil is the mother language of all south Indian languages, and it is easy to learn, write and speak. You can talk to Tamil in 15 - 30 days, and you can talk about it in fluently as you practice it daily. It can be taught in three months.
Tamil newspapers are using very small fonts. Very happy to note that you are keen on learning the Tamil language. Assuming you have very little to no exposure of the Language it can take about two years to be able to read, write and speak the language( At a decent level-scale of 7 out 10).
Is Tamil harder than Hindi?
One thing to note is Written Tamil is different from Spoken Tamil but in Hindi's case it's not that different. So, spoken-Hindi will become somewhat easier if you read many Hindi texts. Number of alphabets in Tamil are far less than Hindi.
Is Tamil easy to learn and speak?
Tamil in its spoken form doesn't have many complicated words. It is very easy to pronounce Tamil words, Tamil doesn't have second ka,ga, cha etc hence making it easy to speak but Malayalam in its spoken form will be very difficult to understand. Malayalees are more particular in pronouncing the words correctly.