How many meters of fabric in Tamil

How the whole thing sounds

The situation: a person at a fabric shop orders curtains and counts meters. First the whole conversation, then each line on its own, with a translation.

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  ஜன்னலுக்கு திரைச்சீலை தைக்க வேணும். எவ்வளவு துணி வேணும்?

  jaṉṉalukku tiraiccīlai taikka vēṇum. evvaḷavu tuṇi vēṇum?

  I need a curtain sewn for the window. How much fabric is needed?
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  ஜன்னலின்ர உயரம் எவ்வளவு? அகலமும் சொல்லுங்கோ

  jaṉṉaliṉra uyaram evvaḷavu? agalamum solluṅgō

  What is the height of the window? And tell me the width.
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  உயரம் ரெண்டு மீற்றர், அகலம் ஒன்றரை மீற்றர்

  uyaram reṇḍu mīṟṟar, agalam oṉṟarai mīṟṟar

  The height is two meters, the width one and a half meters.
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  அப்ப ஏறத்தாழ ஐஞ்சு மீற்றர் வேணும். மடிப்புக்கு கொஞ்சம் கூடுதலா எடுங்கோ

  appa ēṟattāḻa añcu mīṟṟar vēṇum. maḍippukku koñcam kūḍudalā eḍuṅgō

  Then you need about five meters. Take a little more for the hem.
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  சரியா ஐஞ்சு மீற்றர் தான் இருக்கா, இல்லாட்டி கூடுதலான துண்டு மிச்சம் ஆகுமா?

  sariyā añcu mīṟṟar tāṉ irukkā, illāṭṭi kūḍudalāṉa tuṇḍu miccam āgumā?

  Is there exactly five meters, or will a leftover piece remain?
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  ஐஞ்சரை மீற்றர் தான் மிச்சம். கிட்டத்தட்ட அரை மீற்றர் கூட வரும், அது பரவாயில்லை

  añcarai mīṟṟar tāṉ miccam. kiṭṭattaṭṭa arai mīṟṟar kūḍa varum, adu paravāyillai

  There is exactly five and a half left. Almost half a meter extra — that is nothing.
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  ஒரு மீற்றர் விலை என்ன? சராசரியா எவ்வளவு ஆகும்?

  oru mīṟṟar vilai eṉṉa? sarāsariyā evvaḷavu āgum?

  How much does a meter cost? What will it come to on average?
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  மீற்றர் எழுநூறு ரூபா. ரெண்டு ஜன்னலுக்கு எடுத்தா விலை ரெண்டு மடங்கு

  mīṟṟar eḻunūṟu rūbā. reṇḍu jaṉṉalukku eḍuttā vilai reṇḍu maḍaṅgu

  Seven hundred rupees per meter. For two windows — the price is double.

Lines one by one

How to prepare for a conversation like this

Memorizing the lines is not enough: the other person will say their own thing, not what is written. What helps more is catching the key words by ear and keeping three rescue phrases ready: “I don't understand”, “repeat, please”, “slower”.

And one more thing phrasebooks do not mention: awkwardness gets in the way more than not knowing the words.

• Fear of making mistakes gets in the way of learning a language, and noticeably so. The link turns up study after study, and together those studies cover almost twenty thousand people.checked many times
  Teimouri, Goetze & Plonsky, 2019, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 41(2) · 19,933 participants from 23 countries; correlation with results r = −0.36.
• That fear can be dealt with — the methods have been tested and they work.checked many times
  Xiong et al., 2024, Journal of Language and Social Psychology · 37 studies, anxiety reduced by −0.61. Of the seven conditions examined, only age turned out to matter.

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