Learn Spanish through Tamil
தமிழின் வழியாக Español மொழி கற்போம்
Every lesson explains Spanish by comparing it directly to Tamil grammar and vocabulary — word order, case marking, formal speech, and more — instead of translating through English.
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Greetings & Formality
வணக்கம் மற்றும் மரியாதை
Spanish splits 'you' into tú (informal) and usted (formal) — the same instinct Tamil speakers already have with நீ vs நீங்கள். Start here before any other vocabulary.
Alphabet & Pronunciation
எழுத்துக்கள் மற்றும் உச்சரிப்பு
Spanish is written with the Latin alphabet plus one extra letter, ñ, that Tamil script doesn't have — but Spanish spelling is far more consistent than English's, so once you learn the rules, reading aloud becomes predictable, much closer to how Tamil's phonetic script behaves.
Numbers 1–10
எண்கள் 1–10
Spanish numbers 1–10 are simple standalone words, just like Tamil's ஒன்று–பத்து — no compounding to worry about yet. That starts at eleven, covered in the next numbers lesson.
Family
குடும்பம்
Spanish nouns carry grammatical gender — masculine or feminine, no neuter — and for people this lines up cleanly with the same instinct behind Tamil's உயர்திணை (rational, human) gender split.
Articles & Gender
கட்டுரைச் சொற்கள் மற்றும் பாலினம்
Every Spanish noun is either masculine or feminine, and the article in front of it — el, la, un, una — is your main clue. For people this lines up with Tamil's உயர்திணை split; for objects, Spanish assigns gender with no logic at all, which Tamil doesn't do.
Subject Pronouns & Two Verbs for 'To Be': ser vs. estar
பிரதிபெயர்கள் மற்றும் இரு 'இருக்கிறேன்' வினைச்சொற்கள்: ser vs. estar
Spanish splits the single idea of 'to be' into two separate verbs, ser and estar, chosen by whether you're describing something permanent or temporary — a distinction Tamil doesn't mark on its own இரு verb at all, so treat this as a brand-new category to learn, not a mapping from an existing habit.
Sentence Structure
வாக்கிய அமைப்பு
Spanish sentences default to subject-verb-object order, unlike Tamil's verb-final subject-object-verb pattern — but the two languages share a deeper trick: both let the verb ending alone carry who's doing the action, so the subject pronoun is often left out entirely in either language.
Plural Nouns
பன்மைப் பெயர்ச்சொற்கள்
Spanish pluralizes nouns by adding -s or -es depending on the ending — a simple, near-universal rule, and Tamil marks the plural just as consistently by attaching a suffix of its own, just a different one.
Numbers 11–100
எண்கள் 11–100
Spanish numbers stay irregular from eleven to fifteen, then turn into visible compounds from sixteen onward — a shape Tamil numbers share from eleven onward without a gap.
Present Tense: Regular -AR Verbs
நிகழ்காலம்: வழக்கமான -AR வினைச்சொற்கள்
Spanish sorts every regular verb into one of three families by its infinitive ending — -ar, -er, or -ir — and each family conjugates on a single predictable pattern. Start with -ar, the largest and most common group.
Present Tense: Regular -ER and -IR Verbs
நிகழ்காலம்: வழக்கமான -ER மற்றும் -IR வினைச்சொற்கள்
The other two regular verb families, -er and -ir, share almost the same ending pattern as each other — only the nosotros and vosotros forms differ — so learning both together is more efficient than treating them as unrelated.
Question Words
கேள்விச் சொற்கள்
Spanish question words all carry a written accent mark that doesn't change their pronunciation but flags a question — a spelling signal Tamil doesn't need, since Tamil question words are simply their own distinct words.
Negation
எதிர்மறை
Spanish negates a sentence with a single word, no, placed right before the verb — different from how Tamil folds negation directly into the verb's own ending, but just as consistent once you know the one rule.
Adjective Agreement
பெயரடை ஒத்திசைவு
Spanish adjectives change their ending to match the gender and number of the noun they describe — a habit Tamil doesn't have at all, since Tamil adjectives never change form regardless of what they modify.
Possessive Adjectives
உரிமைப் பெயரடைகள்
Spanish possessives — mi, tu, su, and the rest — mostly agree with the noun they describe rather than the person who owns it, and even then only in number for most of them, a pattern with just one gender-agreeing exception that Tamil doesn't have at all.
Daily Routine & Telling Time
தினசரி வேலைகள் மற்றும் நேரம் சொல்வது
Spanish tells time with a feminine 'the' agreeing with hora ('hour') that's silently implied — es la una but son las dos — a quirk with no direct Tamil parallel, since Tamil states the hour as a plain number with no article involved at all.
Food & Ordering
உணவு மற்றும் ஆர்டர் செய்தல்
Ordering food in Spanish leans on the same querer-softening pattern you'd use for any polite request — no separate 'restaurant register' to learn, much like Tamil reuses its everyday polite phrasing (வேணும், தயவுசெய்து) in a restaurant exactly as it would anywhere else.
Self-Introduction, Countries & Nationalities
தன்னை அறிமுகப்படுத்துதல், நாடுகள் மற்றும் தேசியங்கள்
Introducing yourself in Spanish pulls together several things from earlier lessons at once — ser for identity, gender-agreeing nationality words — and nationality adjectives change for gender exactly the way any other adjective does, something Tamil nationality words never do.