OCTOBER is on the way!

Hello,

I'm quite curious about october. As I'm planning to start a new language, I was thinking if I should revise the languages that I did much earlier like japanese, german or spanish.. All pretty much near A1 or A2 level. However, I got a new interesting option. I received Teach Yourself's complete Italian for free as I won a competition online.

Should I belearning Italian? Seems that'll work :)

Similarities between Malayalam and Tamil...

They are a lot more closer than I thought; well I just need a better resource...

Example using pronouns:

MALAYALAM - TAMIL
Gnan -                  Nan
Nee -                     Nee
Avan -                   Avan
Aval -                    Aval
Nanngal -              Naangal
Ninngal -               Ningal
Avar -                    Avargal

Malayalam seems to be more like a Sanskritised version of Tamil...

Tamil has 12 vowels and 18 consonants.
In addition it also has "aggu" more like a special character, and additional special characters like "sha", "sa", "ja", "shri" and "ha".

Whereas, Malayalam has all the characters that Tamil has and in addition, It also has the "ga"sound which in Tamil is written with the same letter "ka"...etc., as Malayalam also has aspirated sounds, the list of  Consonants seems to be more.

Interesting thing I note is that Malayalam has the concept of Inherent vowels, just like Telugu and Kannada. Could be from Sanskrit.

Example: SKA -> SA + K, The vowel "A" is inherited from "SA" by "K",
                                            thus "SA" becomes "S" and "K" becomes "KA"!

Other points noted:

Thamarai in Tamil becomes Thamara in Malayalam.

-ai usually changes to -a; It has to be noted that, however, in spoken tamil -ai is pronounced as -a itself. but not an open "A"as in f"A"ther, rather "U"ncle.

Which language should I learn next?

Hello,

I'm so much excited about October. The reason is that I get to choose to learn a new language! (Well self decision).

 I really love language learning and last April I decided to start Polish. Well it was exactly the 4th month, thus I got a plan thinking that I can start a new language every 3 months. So the 7th month I decided to learn Malayalam.

Malayalam is a language very close to Tamil which I already speak but there are no quality materials to use. I did find a book which is not that clear nor there are so many notes.

I hope that I'll get to know someone who can speak either Polish or Malayalam.