Teachers: Smt. Shilpa Nagarajan, Smt. Lalitha Sridhar, Smt. Sivasankari Boopathi, Sri. Sridhar Narayanan
​Youth Teachers: Adarsh Narayanan, Anirudh Anand, Guhan Sureshkumar

 Lavanya is a Masters graduate in Ecological Science.  Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, her school and college education was in Chennai and partly in Salem.  More than Tamil language being a part of her school education, it turned out that she started admiring and exploring the language way beyond its curriculum’s horizons.  She has participated in various Tamil public speaking events.  She is very passionate about the language and is a voracious reader of Tamil literature books.  She has been teaching Tamil at Balvihar for the last 5 years. 


Lalitha has done her MPhil in Hindi literature and her Bachelors in Music, majoring in Vocal and Violin.  She had a short stint of teaching in India, trained in Translation of texts from Hindi to Tamil. This is her fourth year with Balvihar.


Course Syllabus
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The Tamil chapter of Allentown Balvihar had tied up with American Tamil Academy (http://amtaac.org/).  

மழலை (Primary):
Learning of letters and numbers in Tamil
Learning the names of Fruits, Vegetables, Colors, Plants, Animals, Body parts, Directions, Tastes, Seasons, Shapes, etc
Learning to speak tamil words & sentences clearly
Tamil Rhymes

நிலை 1 (Level 1):
Learning to write all the combination of letters
Tamil language fundamentals, Aathi Choodi (ஆத்தி சூடி) Konrai Venthan (கொன்றை வேந்தன்)
Tamil Rhymes
Further names of domestic animals, wild animals, vehicles, flowers
Matching the pictures to workds

நிலை 2 (Level 2):
Learning nouns, verbs
More words and translating to English
Learning small sentence formations

நிலை 3 (Level 3)
Learning small sentence formations
Learning short stories and sonnets
Grammar foundation, Adverbs, Tenses etc.
More sentences, words and ancient literary sonnets like திருக்குறள், பாசுரங்கள் 

நிலை 4 (Level 4)
Introduction to ancient literature
Translation from Tamil to English and vice versa
Learning to write small sentences with grammar in Tamil
Learning to read prose, poetry and other formats

நிலை 5 (Level 5)
Learning Tamil Grammar in an intermediate state.  Adverbs, Adjectives, Verb classes, Negative infinities, Conditional verbs, etc
Simple and Compound sentence formations
Active and Passive voices
Interrogative sentences

நிலை 6 (Level 6)
Learning next level Grammar implied verbs / nouns, combination / compounding etc
Prose reading and writing
Speech training 
Non-detailed texts.

நிலை 7 (Level 7)
Advanced and final stage of Tamil Grammar
Prose / Poetry reading, writing and translation
Non-detailed texts
Ancient and Modern literature