Spoken Tamil: Tamil Amudham Radio

Tamil Amudham is a radio program in Detroit. Their main page has links to previous months' radio broadcasts which you can listen to online or download for later listening.

They have a 10 episode series of Akbar Birbal stories as well.
Since these are very famous stories it should be easy enough to find a general idea of what happens in each story, and listen for those elements.


Episode 1: "Akbar meets Birbal" - Tamil -(Aired Dec 10, 2006) Story in written English (not direct translation)
Episode 2: "Mahesh Das becomes Birbal" - Tamil - (Aired Dec 17, 2006) Story in written English
Episode 3: "Interactions with Akbar" - Tamil - (Aired Dec 24, 2006)
Episode 4: "Birbal goes to Heaven" - Tamil - (Aired Dec 31, 2006)
Episode 5: "Catching the thief" - Tamil - (Aired Jan 7, 2007)
Episode 6: "Three quick wits of Birbal" - Tamil - (Aired Jan 14, 2007)
Episode 7: "Koondup Puli" - Tamil - (Aired Jan 21, 2007)
Episode 8: "Unmaiyum Poiyum" - Tamil - (Aired Jan 28, 2007)
Episode 9: "Azhakaana Kuzhandhai" - Tamil - (Aired Feb 4, 2007)
Episode 10: "Thalai Thappinathu" - Tamil - (Aired Feb 11, 2007)

Some basics

Based on lesson 1 from the University of Pennsylvania/ South Asian Language Center's Tamil Site

என் பெயர் ஜெனி. என் சொந்த ஊர் சண் டியேகோ. (Link will open download page for audio, better to open in a new tab)
I was told ஜெனி would be closer than ஜென்னி... what do you think?

"What do you do?" Chat notes

The sentence "What do you do (for work)?" was translated to "nekka enna veli seykirrikal."
nekka = nii/niingal (still confused on this, spelling? pronunciation?)
enna = what
veli = work
seykirrikal = you do present tense

So now I have to check with my dictionaries and see how everything matches up and conjugate செய் as well.

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