{"id":758,"date":"2021-01-19T00:10:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zanavu.com\/notes\/?p=758"},"modified":"2021-01-19T00:11:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:11:21","slug":"digital-tools-to-help-with-tamil-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zanavu.com\/notes\/2021\/01\/19\/digital-tools-to-help-with-tamil-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Tools to help with Tamil Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As shared earlier, I am <a href=\"https:\/\/zanavu.com\/notes\/2021\/01\/19\/discovering-the-joy-of-reading-of-tamil-literature\/\">reading more Tamil Literature<\/a> these days. To understand more, I am also writing more about what I am reading. To start with I am creating a simplified <a href=\"https:\/\/t.hemocoel.com\"><em>Verse Reader<\/em> site<\/a> that will have the verses along with meaning in English and Tamil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slowly and steadily a collection of tools are required. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Tamil language keyboard<\/em> &#8211; available on most modern phones and computers. I am using the Tamil keyboard on the iPhone and Mac laptop. These can be installed using the language extensions in the settings. I use <strong>Tamil 99 <\/strong>keyboard on the Mac laptop. <\/li><li><em>Google Search<\/em> &#8211; some of the words are hard to understand. Google Search is helpful.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dsal.uchicago.edu\/dictionaries\/tamil-lex\/\"><em>Digital Dictionary of South Asi<\/em>a<\/a><em> <\/em>includes Tamil Lexicon. See  or get the phone app. Thanks to years of work done at University of Madras in the 1920s and 1930s we have a dictionary that is now digitized as well.<\/li><li><em>Google Translate application <\/em>&#8211; for some of the phrases I like the Google Translate app to convert between English and Tamil.<\/li><li>The web pages and code I create are done using <em>Atom<\/em> editor with code sitting in <em>GitHub <\/em>repository.<\/li><li>The web pages were original hosted at Google Sites, though I found the available templates as limiting. So I am moving to host the web pages on AWS S3.<\/li><li>Audio recording is done using <em>Voice Memos<\/em> app on the iPhone. 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