Guys is understanding tamil really help to know malayalam also

[u/Tall_Bed_4324]

Guys I was understanding malayalam and I was totally confused because I wanna know first that lang which in future helps me to understand 2nd lang means if I know tamil then it helps me in understanding malayalam or if I know malayalam it helps me to understand tamil

And for this reason i asked ai tell me which one to choose ai told me to choose tamil because if I choose tamil then I can easily understand malayalam

But I need your help tell me is it real or not like I have to choose tamil then malayalam or i have to choose malayalam then I can understand tamil also ?

Because then I'll start revision of tamil or if malayalam is for this I'll start revision of malayalam?

[u/No-Philosopher958]

Tamizh in the sense pure tamizh matches with malayalam more than modern tamizh

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Da sorry but can you plz explain me plz

[u/No-Philosopher958 → u/Tall_Bed_4324]

Bro actually I'm native tamizh and learning malayalam, i would say both malayalam and tamizh are childrens of old tamizh, old tamizh means the tamizh i learnt in school subject,in which literatures were written etc... malayalam i feel sanskrit a bit plus old tamizh So u better learn malayalam first ,u can easily pickup tamizh, evidence is u can see how almost every malayalees speak basic tamizh

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Thank for your help da , means I can learn tamil if I know malayalam, really thanks for your help

[u/is_ness1-1]

Tamil and malayalam have much difference. I'm not sure if learning one will help you with the other

[u/a_sath_]

I will say learn Malayalam first.

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Thanks da for your suggestion, I'm now learning malayalam then after this I'll try to learn tamil in future

[u/field_hockey_deporte]

Written malayalam and formal malayalam spoken in news channels is easy to understand than written Tamil because of heavy Sanskrit word usage in Malayalam. In Tamil the more they start using pure Tamil words the more difficult it is to understand unless you learn. 

 Spoken Tamil in movies , TV interviews is a lot more easier to understand than spoken Malayalam in movies. 

It doesn't make much difference which language you start with

[u/Status_Anything_6451]

If you concentrate on the script, knowing two of Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi, will help learning the third one easily

You have to choose, based on what language you communicate with people around you on a daily basis. This will help your learning to be quicker

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See I'm from Himachal Pradesh I know punjabi, kulvi , mandyali, english, and Hindi, and I was trying to know malayalam and i learnt some script of malayalam because script learning is not that tough for me I can learn tamil also but main is speaking i was thinking which lang to choose so if in future I wanna learn another then it'll help me to learn

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What chances do you have, in talking to people in Tamil/ Malayalam. You have to choose the language with higher chance. If chance of both are same, do head or tail (choosing one over the other doesn't make any difference)

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Do you know one like tamil or Malayalam? Any one ?

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Yes

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Which one

[u/Status_Anything_6451 → u/Tall_Bed_4324]

Both

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Hey Dont mind can we talk in personal I wanna know more

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Ok. DM