For Tamil Sangams, weekend schools and international schools. The same curriculum fifty
schools in India run, built for a classroom where Tamil is not the language outside the
door.
Two hours on a Saturday, against a whole week of English
The children arrive willing. They leave willing. And then six days pass
in another language, and by the next Saturday some of it has gone.
Meanwhile the class in front of you is
nothing like a school class. One room, ages six to fourteen, some who speak Tamil at
home and some who have only ever heard it. A single textbook cannot serve them all.
What changes
Something to do between Saturdays, that a parent does not have to teach
Each child on their own level, in the same room
A child who has never read Tamil is not sitting beside one who has, doing the
same page
You can see who is actually practising, and who only turns up
The part that matters most abroad
One room. Every child on their own level.
A level is set per child, not per class. In a Sangam classroom of twenty
that spans eight years of age and every possible level of Tamil at home, this is the
difference between a lesson and a compromise.
The child who speaks it at home
Fluent in listening and speaking, often unable to read a word.
They start where their reading is, not where their conversation is, so they are never
bored and never humiliated.
The child who has only heard it
Grandparents on a video call, a song in the car. The Listening
Intensive stream is built for exactly this child — no reading, no grammar, until
listening has somewhere to stand.
The child starting from nothing
Level 0 exists for them. Not a watered-down Level 1 — a
foundation level with its own material, so a beginner of eleven is not handed a book
made for a five-year-old.
What a partnership includes
The same syllabus, shipped further
One Tamil grammar syllabus underneath both — letters and sounds, then words,
then nouns and verbs, then sentences, then figures of speech. Grade 6 in the book is Level 6
in the lab. See what each level covers.
Payil Tamil Textbooks
LKG to Grade 5 available now, Grade 6 in production. Printed and
shipped to you, with sample pages you can read before you commit. Flipbook samples of
every level are below.
Level 0 to Level 13. Runs on a Windows or Mac computer, works
offline once installed, and syncs when the connection comes back — which matters
more in a community hall than in a school lab.
Nine chapters, opening with what this means abroad
The first chapter is written for schools outside India. The eight that follow are the same ones every partner sees.
See it, and hear from them
Sixteen short films
An introduction from Dr. Madhan Karky, and then the people who
actually use it — students, parents, teachers and school management, in their
own words.
Published with school permission.
How partnership works abroad
What is different, and what is not
The same
The curriculum, the levels and the ten skills
Teacher training, over video
Monthly reports for every learner
One agreement, renewed yearly
Different
Books ship internationally — allow for freight and customs
Training is scheduled around your time zone, not ours
Your term calendar, not the June–March Indian one
Pricing is quoted per country
The console
What the coordinator sees
A Sangam with sixty learners and a school with six hundred get the same console. Your whole programme on one screen, then each class and each teacher, with the ten skills separated out — which matters more abroad, where one room often holds several levels.
One number for the institution, and the six things worth
knowing beside it — sessions run, learners engaged, learners above 80%,
learners needing support, requests open, licences left
Both ends of the room, named. The children doing well and the
children who need someone this week — not at the end of term
Every class on one screen, with its teacher, its average and
whether it moved up or down since last month
Open a class and the ten skills separate out, drawn against the
school average. This is where a teacher sees that listening is fine and
speaking is not
And down to one child. All ten skills, each with the gap to the class
beside it — so “falling behind” becomes grammar and writing,
specifically
Each teacher against the classes they actually handle. Useful for
deciding who needs support — and who should be running the training
Move a learner between levels, ask for more logins, remove a child
who has left. Every request tracked, with a reason recorded when one is
turned down
Reports ready, renewals due, training dates, maintenance windows.
Everything we need to tell you, in one place rather than in your inbox
Sample data. Every name and figure in these screens is invented — no real
learner appears. The console is in Tamil as well as English.
Take it away and read it
The full proposal
The full document, written for schools and Tamil Sangams alike. Forward it to your committee or your management.
Some of the people who find this page are parents rather than
organisers. Thambaa Indie gives one child a full year
of Tamil at their own pace, at home — wherever home is. Learners have already enrolled
from Singapore, the United States and New Zealand.
The part that matters most abroad
