Just another sunny day at Dortmund, I was waiting for my German friend Robert who was leaving to Sri Lanka in a few weeks. He had called me few weeks back and told me he wanted to learn Tamil. My eyes popped in excitement when I heard the word Tamil. Tamil is my mother tongue, and I have not spoken it since quite a while since I came to Germany to become a South-North Volunteer in the Church of Dortmund in June 2018. Tamil is the oldest surviving language of the world, it started around 2600 years ago during 600 BC and stands as one of the classical languages certified by the UNESCO. Being the official language of Singapore and Sri Lanka wouldn’t come as a surprise, but did you know that Tamil is also one of the minority languages of South Africa? Hebrew, the language of the Jews, was derived from Tamil as well.