10. Conversation : இப்போ கல்யாணம் வேண்டாம்
Goal: Learning to argue about something
Translate the following argumentation into Tamil
Sarah: What are you going to do after the college [study] is over?
Mala: My parents are telling me to get married.
Sarah: What do you say?
Mala: I don’t want marriage now; I want to study [for] Master’s (M.A.)
Sarah: Will they let [you do that]?
Mala; They tell me to marry the person (boy) they have found (seen) and then study.
Sarah: Do they find (see) a boy for you? Won’t you find (see) one yourself?
Mala: I don’t like their finding (seeing) a boy for me. I must tell them slowly.
Sarah: Why do they find (see) a boy for you. You are grown up. You alone know what
you want.
Mala: They don’t think like that. But I will change their mind.
(Help: The words in square brackets [ ] are need not be present in Tamil; words in parentheses ( ) are close in form to their Tamil equivalents.
parents ‘அப்பா அம்மா’; marry ‘கல்யாணம் பண்ணு (பண்ண, பண்ணி)’; let ‘விடு (விட, விட்டு)’; slowly ‘மெதுவா’; grow up ‘வளர் (வளர, வளந்து)’ change ‘மாத்து (மாத்த, மாத்து)’
Make a similar argumentation with your parents about doing graduate work in Tamil vs. studying in a professional course.
Rewrite the conversation A in Tamil in the formal style.