The following sites may be useful to instructors of Tamil

Epatra.com: this is a fabulous multilingual e-mail service, which enables unhindered and instant
global communication in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Assamese, Bengali,
Telugu, Tamil, Kannada , Oriya and English. Epatra.com allows you to hold your epatra account and access it anywhere. It can be used from home, work, school, cyber café, a friend’s
house or any computer in the world with an Internet connection. Your mail is safe and secure, as the email account is password protected. The epatra user need not to know the language keyboard, as the desired language message can be composed in Roman using the English
keyboard. This also offers flexibility of using English with any of the regional language.

Webdunia.com: This site is available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam &NRI.

Web Assisted Learning and Teaching of Tamil: This is an extensive site out of the University of Pennsylvania which includes an introduction to the Tamil alphabet, exercises and lessons, folktakes, a Tamil grammar, and lots more.

Tamil Literature Online: in Tamil script and transliterated formats

Webulagam.com

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: Project to create and disseminate electronic dictionaries for each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia. At least one multilingual dictionary is being selected for each South Asian language; in the case of more frequently taught languages, a monolingual dictionary is also chosen. The dictionaries are available by means of standard file transfer protocol, or by compact disc. There is no charge for access via the Internet and the compact discs are available for the cost of duplication and mailing.

Identifying parts of the body in Tamil: this can be found on another UPenn site. This can be used as a demonstration (the words for each part of the body move across the screen to their proper place) or as a test of vocabulary knowledge. There is a link on the first page mentioned, or you can go straight to the Body Parts Test in Tamil page (The test only works in Internet Explorer 4 or above -- not Netscape!).

Tamil Software

South Asia Net: a search engine for South Asia related topics

Learning Tamil Resource Page