I realized learning Korean through Tamil made more sense than through English. Has anyone else noticed this?
Hi everyone, I've been learning Korean and for the past year or so and I started realising how similar it is to Tamil due to the same Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) structure. For background, I am a second generation immigrant, and I'm actually more comfortable in English than Tamil but here I was learning Korean by translating Korean sentences into Tamil to make sure I understood their structure.
So then I thought there's so many of us who are bilingual and know a language other than English. And a lot of languages, including Tamil, Korean, Hindi share the same SOV structure. So why are we learning these languages through English when we could learn it through another language with the same structure??
So it kicked off a personal project with me mapping Tamil to Korean so Korean learners who know Tamil can learn it through Tamil rather than English. Here it is: https://learnwithdari.com/
I think its pretty cool to see the parallels between the two languages especially the sentence structure, the verb endings and the particle usages. I already have some more ideas on the pages I could add but wanted to see if its something that resonates with other people too before I build those out. So pls pls let me know your thoughts!!
DB