Learning Khmer Language and its culture is very important while living and working in Cambodia. For further information on and learn Khmer Language please check out my RU-vid Channel.
US retired expat moved to Kampuchea two years ago and learning Khmer has been difficult and slow. Tried many ways. Dara, I'm glad I just found your videos. Slow enough to practice every word all day. It's finally sinking in.
Your video has been incredibly helpful for learning khmer! But I have a small question, and I was hoping you could answer? I see you used "Quat" to mean he/she. I've been studying with the ling app which teaches "Kot" is he and "Neang" is she. Is it more common for native speakers to just say "Quat"? Why do kot/neang exist if quat can mean both pronouns? Again, thank you for being a good language teacher
Hi sorry for the delay, but I was busy. you are correct in Spoken Khmer Quat or Kot is refer to both he or she. But in Written we try to explain gender. that why in spoken we don't really Neang to female partner. Thank you for asking.
Chom reap sour! Thank you for your good video, I follow and will work on every of them ! :D I have a question for everyone who knows : Do you know a "translator" or a website to translate khmer (arabic letters/prononciation/SMS language). Because I speak a few khmer on the phone with my Darling. But I can't translate when i don't know a word..? so i always need her to tell me. So thank you if you know something or otherwise I will learn faster the khmer alphabet... (1 Exemple : She said : Laor nas : If she doesn't tell me, I can't find the translation by myself.) :)
Thank you for this lesson. I know that the article was about construction of the road 51 with help of Chinese money. Can i ask what is the difference between ទឹកប្រាក់ and លុយ?
One thing that makes it hard to learn Khmer: everyone wants to speak English with you! Their English is better than my Khmer and, as communication is the main purpose, it is compelling to go along with it. 😑
These videos are very useful but I wish there was a little more help with vocabulary. I heard one word over and over but I wasn't sure what it meant or exactly how to spell it. Anyway, thank you so much for posing these
Thank you very much for your reassuring advice. I went down the path of trying hard to learn and speak Khmer in a more correct and formal way, in my attempt to be more respectful. Despite my Khmer friends telling me to relax and encouraging me to speak with errors and with my dubious pronunciation. they smile and correct me anyway.
Thank you for a very helpful video. I understood that the Minister of Aviation wanted to increase the number of visitors from ASEAN and especially China. Did I understand correctly? I feel like I can understand 40-50% of what you are saying but I will keep on working on it. Thanks again so much!
This is another very useful and helpful video to improve my listening ability in Khmer. These listening videos are very challenging for me but I keep listening over and over until I can understand the main ideas. Thanks so much
Great lessons but often the english letters are incorrect. Hoop sounds like “boot” when you want to write “hope”. Hop rhymes with cop. Hoop rhymes with scoop.
Thank you for the wonderful listening videos. They are still pretty hard for me but I am watching them over and over and learning little by little. I want to understand more about Cambodia and to be able to express my opinions in Khmer but I need to learn a lot more vocabulary. Thank you, again! I really appreciate it
As for me .... Khmer is easy to learn. I have studied 21 languages so far, and Khmer is the easiest to learn out of all those languages. However, there are challenges with learning any language. The biggest factor is >>> Commitment ..... Immersion .... You must spend many hundreds/thousands of hours in order to become fluent on a high level.
I think that most people want to learn mostly spoken Khmer for everyday life first - they most likely expected to only use a foreign language at work... though of course it is beneficial to be able to communicate in (more formal) Khmer at work, too.
I do listen all of your videos but without any vocabulary or written text I can try to translate myself the videos serve just for getting used to hearing the sounds.
I agree with that. I really don't understand Cambodian parents who don't want their children learn Khmer. How stupid is that? As for foreign children whose parents have a work assignments and who are not intending to stay, an instruction of Khmer as a foreign language and culture, should also be compulsory but not with the same intensity.
Thanks for posting these videos. I am Malaysian but my fiance is Khmer, I learnt a few words from a family but I want to be able to speak fluently one day
I think some people insist foreigners to use formal way, because they want to practice and good with the formal way first, and later on you can learn the informal way. but for me I help people learn both ways. And I really appreciate if they can speak the informal way. Thanks for asking.
And sometimes market sellers leave out the um and just say '-pal', '-bail "-bu'un': it is clear to a Cambodian from the context that they mean a dounle-digit number! I would also like to hear the differences between words in Siem Reap and Kampot or Sihanouk dialects vs Phnom Penh one. I found market sellers in Siem Reap quite hard to understand when visiting there (long time ago).
