Audio flashcards for memorising Tamil words: a Tamil word on one side, its translation on the other, and both sides spoken by a human voice. The easiest start is the ready list "Starter vocabulary"; you can also paste your own list and turn it straight into a deck.
There are two ways to work with a deck. Press "Study" and the cards appear one by one: you recall the answer, reveal it, then grade yourself from "Again" to "Easy"; the site decides how many days later to show the word again. Or press ▶ to play the deck straight through and listen without looking at the screen. The button ↓ MP3 saves the whole deck as a single file—the same cards, but now in your phone’s player: no open tab, no internet, screen off—something no browser page can do.
Four ready lists: "Starter vocabulary", "Core vocabulary", "Extended vocabulary" and "Common verbs". These are not four separate sets: "Starter vocabulary" sits inside "Core vocabulary", "Core vocabulary" inside "Extended vocabulary", and "Common verbs" inside "Extended vocabulary" too. Work you have done therefore never disappears; after finishing "Starter vocabulary" you simply continue the same "Extended vocabulary" from word 101 instead of starting over.
The point of frequency lists is that words in a language are distributed very unevenly. The 1000 most frequent words cover, by various counts, roughly 80 % of the words in ordinary conversation. That does not mean you will understand 80 % of the meaning—rare words often carry the meaning—but without this core nothing else works: grammar, listening or reading all rest on it. The 1000 words are not all of Tamil, they are the foundation on which everything else is built.
Each deck contains exactly as many cards as its name promises, and this has been checked across all thirty languages. If two Tamil words have the same translation they are merged into one card with two meanings on the back; the missing card is taken from the next larger list so a 1000-word deck never ends up with only 800 cards.
Cards are shown by the SM-2 spaced-repetition algorithm—the same one Anki is built on. The idea is simple: a word you recall easily does not need to be shown tomorrow; a word you stumble on does. After every card you choose one of four grades, and under each button the site shows how many days later the word will return:
The numbers under the buttons are not for show—they are calculated for that exact card from its own history, so a new card and a card you have remembered for six months display different numbers. For a new card the values are one day for "Again" and "Hard", three days for "Good" and four for "Easy". The same number on the first two buttons does not mean the buttons are the same: "Again" resets the success counter and records a miss, while "Hard" still counts as an answer and only slows future interval growth.
The schedule lives in your browser, so no sign-up is required and nothing is sent anywhere. The other side of that choice: in another browser or after the site data are cleared, progress will not be found.
Every card speaks both sides, and each side has its own speed—the Tamil word can be slowed down while the translation stays at normal pace. The voice is chosen in the deck settings: both ordinary and neural voices are available.
Under the Tamil word you see a phonetic transcription stored with the deck rather than fetched over the network, so it appears instantly and works even offline. Transcription is part of the deck, not a separate service: it is prepared in advance and sits beside the translation, therefore it is visible at once and does not depend on connectivity. Tamil is written in the Tamil script, so the transcription is an extra aid while you learn the letters as well.
The whole deck can be downloaded as one MP3 or WAV file: both sides of every card plus the pauses between them. This lets you learn words without looking at the phone—on the move, on a walk, behind the wheel.
The button "Type the answer" turns recognition into recall. The difference matters more than it seems: recognising a ready translation is far easier than retrieving it from memory yourself, and in an exam or conversation the second skill is what you need. Because Tamil uses its own script, typing the answer also practises the alphabet. The answer is accepted for any of the meanings on the back; differences in case or punctuation are not counted as errors. The mode is remembered, so you do not have to select it every time.
Besides the frequency lists there are 22 situational decks—ready phrases for specific situations: "At the doctor and the pharmacy", "At the hotel", "Flights and delays", "At the bank and paying". These are not single words but whole lines you can say as they stand. The phrases come from the reading and listening sections, so from any deck you can jump to the text where the phrase appears in context and back again.
The button "Add a deck" opens a form where you paste a list of word — translation pairs, one pair per line. The result is the same kind of deck: with audio, scheduling, typed answers and MP3 export. This is handy when the words are set by a teacher, taken from a series or collected from your own textbook.
A sensible target is 10–20 new words a day with daily review. Adding more is easy; reviewing them a week later is the part that usually stops people. The algorithm works out the load itself: the counter above the deck shows how many cards are due for review today.
If you are learning Tamil from zero, start with "Starter vocabulary". If you already read simple texts, begin with "Extended vocabulary": "Starter vocabulary" and "Core vocabulary" are entirely inside it, so the algorithm quickly moves familiar words into long-term storage and keeps only the unknown ones nearby.
No. No account, no install, no payment: the page works at once and the repetition schedule is kept in the browser.
Yes, in two ways: download the deck as a single audio file and listen anywhere, or install the site as an app—then the cards and their transcriptions remain available without a network.
The repetition algorithm is the same. The difference is that nothing needs configuring and no deck needs hunting: the ready lists are already translated, voiced and supplied with transcription for all thirty studied languages, and everything runs in the browser without installation.
One line per language, alternating — or two columns separated by a tab, as a spreadsheet exports.