Sridhar Narayayan : Sridhar Narayanan had studied Mathematics and Computers and specialized in Computer Applications. He has been working in the Information technology space for around 30 years. He has been a long-time literature enthusiast, with contributions to many Tamil writing projects. Authored the book Ammavin Pathilkal and the book Kaththikkaaran. He had a short stint teaching computer subjects for college students before. He has been associated with Balvihar classes as a volunteer Tamil teacher for the past 12 years, and is looking forward to continuing it for the forthcoming years.
Lalitha Sridhar: Lalitha Sridhar had done her MPhil in Hindi literature and her bachelor’s in music. She has been trained in Translation of texts from Hindi to Tamil and vice versa. Working in a Pharma Industry as Instructional Designer and Trainer. Associated with Balvihar as Tamil Teacher for the past 10 years.
Sivasankari Sureshkumar: Sivasankari is an early childhood educator with much interest in the languages and literature. She has been teaching Tamil at the Balvihar for the last 8 years.
Shilpa Nagarajan: Shilpa is a supply chain professional with a passion for languages and literature. This is her third year teaching Tamil at Balvihar. She is also the assistant teacher for Dharma 3.
Swetha Rajesh : Swetha had done Bachelors in Civil Engineering. She is passionate about teaching, writing and speaking in Tamil language.
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
