About the Khmer language 

On behalf of Cambodian people I would like say thanks to you for making the history of Cambodia. Cambodia has a long history, rich cultures, and friendly people. ❤

Love Cambodia from Turkiye

I worked in Cambodia for seven years and eventually got good enough to give technical lectures in Khmer. The two hardest things about learning it are (1) the lack of a standardized system of transliteration, because even though you need to learn the writing system eventually, it's so hard that learning basic vocabulary and simple conversation directly in the Khmer script is super slow if you do not have a transliteration. There are multiple systems, none of which are great. and (2) all the subtly different vowel sounds - they take lots of practice. A French text for learning Khmer had great advice about getting all those vowels right - "la persistence vaut mieux que l'acharnement - very true, if you stick with it, the vowels will come eventually. The best books for learning, I think, are a series of books on the spoken and written language by Franklin Huffman, starting with "Modern Spoken Cambodian" and "Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader" and continuing to more advanced anthologies of interesting Khmer texts with vocabulary and notes.

I'm South African and Khmer is the first language in my polyglot journey...never been overseas though, hopefully next year I'll relocate

This is so convenient. About a week ago, I was doing research on the khmer writing system because I've always thought it looked interesting. To my surprise, you've uploaded this video. Keep up the great work!

For additional information as a native speaker: Khmer doesn't have plural. You just need to tell the number of things or add the words like group, those, these...to the nouns or repeat the syllables. Example: Khmeng= kid/child ; Khmeng Khmeng = children.... So when you say Chkae Thom Thom, it means "big/large dogs (as in plural)" more than "large dog (as in emphasize the large) ". Most vocabularies in Thai and Lao are derived from Khmer and Khmerized Sanskrit, and Khmerized Pali. That's how Thai and Lao got their Sanskrit and Pali influence words. That's the reason Khmer speakers can understand at least a bit of Thai and Lao without learning them.

I'm so proud as a Cambodian speaking in Khmer ❤thank you for your research and sharing 🎉

Su Sdei and Namaste everyone, It is interesting that Khmer script shares many of the inherent order and sounds of the alphabet with the traditional Indian alphabets( we have currently about 22 official "native" ones which are born in India, leaving Latin and Perso-Arabic script, more scripts are to be made official in the coming years like Modi script for Marathi, Tigalari script for Tulu, Khudabadi script for Sindhi). So, it would be very comparatively easy for us Indians to learn it since it's a simple abugida, rather than even Thai, which has tonal markings compounding the script. The Khmer language sounds very full of consonant clusters and the script looks like royal Naga maidens, twisting in serpentine gaits. We Indians would love to see more historical dramas relating to our brotherly nations of Burma, Thailand, Laos, Indo-Malay and Khmer cultures. We all have beautiful histories, unique cultures and intangible heritage that we must cherish and be proud of. May peace prevail in all realms.

My daughter learned Kymer when she served in the peace corps in Siem Reap Cambodia. It sure was different hearing her interact with the locals when i visited her in 2018.

That's a very interesting video, there are a few corrections over the words that I noticed: For 09:01 it should be ឆ្កែធំ , you may unintentionally added an ា in between. For: 09:13 It should be: ឆ្កែធំៗ We don't write the same adjective twice, but we use this "ៗ" instead. "ៗ" (but for an exception: there is any word etc. that we write នានា) 09:59, for the verb eat: First one: ស៊ី Second: ញុំា These correction doesn't have any bad intention, we're learning something new so mistaken are there to be made. Thank again for the interesting video about our language.

As a Cambodian, thank u so much for making this video. The explanation is very well-organised and most of the information in this vid are pretty much accurate to what I’d studied throughout my academic years. ❤️❤️

អរគុណច្រើន🙏!ចំពោះការចែករំលែកការរៀនភាសាខ្មែរ💛🇰🇭👍👏👏🏻 Thank you so much 🙏💛💐.

Just a minor correction when you wrote the word large dog: it is written ឆ្កែធំ and not ឆ្កែាធំ both the symbols ែ (making roughly the sound ae) and ា (making the sound a) are dependent vowels and those two dependent vowels cannot be linked to the same consonant (in this case ឆ) at the same time. It’s a minor mistake and really doesn’t take away from the great video. As a Khmer person who likes to do a lot of research on the Khmer language I’m really happy with the video, awesome work.

YES YES YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIIIIME Love from Ukraine to Cambodia 💜💜

Thank you Juli, I’m Kun Khmer who fled Cambodia during the Mass Killing of all time since modern histories , the Genocide (1975-1979) . Thank you so much from the buttom of my heart and on behalf of all our Khmers country for dedicating your time and your expertise to uncover our Khmer riches , ancient alphabets to the world ! Indeed Khmer ( Cambodian) Empire Civilization were powerful, massive territorials and it is indeed was heavily influencial Civilization. Millions of Khmer language are still widely spoken across Modern Thailand and Modern Vietnam countries . I will be returning back home soon after 40 years of residing abroad!!! Bless load …..🙏🇰🇭🇰🇭🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

Thank you for making this video! I had requested a video on the Khmer language. It doesn’t get enough attention. Recently, I have been very interested in Cambodian Rock music, especially music by Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, and Pen Ran. They were singers in the 1960s and early 1970s. If anyone is unfamiliar with their music, I would definitely recommend listening to it. There is a documentary about Cambodian Rock music called Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten. There is also a graphic novel about Ros Serey Sothea’s life that is being made currently. It’s called The Golden Voice. Again, thank you for the video, and I definitely recommend checking out some Cambodian Rock music.

I am currently living in Cambodia but before I was living in Riga and I discovered you are Latvian 🙂Of course I speak good russian and before also good latvian but I was there many years ago so I lost a lot of this last one. Thank you for this channel. I will watch all the videos because I love to study every language.

As a Cambodian, I can say you made one of the most detailed explanation in Khmer language. I really am impressed and do acknowledge how detailed and accurate this is. Keep up the good work! 👍👍

As a Cambodian born and speaking Khmer as my first language i'd like to say a big thank you and very much appreciated to you for choosing Khmer language" ភាសាខ្ខ្មែរ" to teach or study to learn , I'm so proud that ❤ Thank you so much 🙏❤

Love from Cambodia 🇰🇭 yes we do speak Khmer and we also call ourselves Khmer in our own language 😊

so good to see Juli again !! Khmer is a cool langauge

ខ្ញុំពិតជារំភើបចំពោះបងស្រី ដែលបានគាំទ្រ និងបង្ហាញអក្សរសាស្រ្តខ្មែរទៅកាន់ពិភពលោក។ 🇰🇭🙏 I really appreciate of you for supporting and displaying my Khmer literature to the world.🙏🇰🇭

Thank you for making this video about Khmer language. ❤ love from Cambodia 🇰🇭

I knew basically nothing about this language before watching this video. I find it interesting that a language can get so influenced by ones it's not related to, and it's good to learn that the root cause of a writing system seeming cumbersome is typically because the pronunciation heavily evolved and the spelling wasn't changed to accommodate. It's also surprising to hear an East/Southeast Asian language without tones that isn't Korean or Japanese.

Khmer is one of the old ancients language in mainland southeast asia.

I am very appreciate to your researching about Khmer language even I am growing up with it but I am difficult to explain it in English and you did a great job thanks❤ អរគុណ😊

Love khmer from your khasi brother

You uploaded this video right when I was becoming fangirl-level obsessed with that Khmer rapper, Vannda. This is great!

Khmer is one of my favorite languages. I dont know why but I love it. The writing system is so unique and the sound of the language. I really wanna learn it.

I'm a Cambodian's people.I really proud when I see Khmer language and Khmer cultures in this video. I hope you can share more about Khmer cultures. 😊

You have one of my favorite channels on youtube! Thank you for your effort! Paldies

Thank you for your researching 💕💕💕💕💕 អគុណសម្រាប់ការចែករំលែក🙏🙏

Congratulations on 100K subscribers! Well-deserved. 🙂

Personally, after spending time in Cambodia, I think Khmer script has probably the most beautiful script in written form of any language in wide usage.. and perhaps paradoxically or fittingly, the spoken language sounds... well... bless it's heart.

I wanted to learn Khmer because I like Cambodian music, especifically Psychedelic Rock. Those songs are so good I got nterested in Cambodian language.

Thanks you so much for the video sharing about Cambodia 🇰🇭 ❤

In the name of Cambodian, I am thank you for sharing about Khmer.❤ I always support you. 😊

I really appreciate with you for loving my Khmer language love you so much from Cambodia 🇰🇭🇰🇭

Extremeky interesting and well done, as usual.

I really appreciate your video about my country Cambodia and it ancient Angkor Wat🙏🏼

Yes thank you so much, who explain about Khmer Language.

Khmer language indeed does not have tones, but it has many different vowel sounds that make it even more difficult to learn... ភាសាខ្មែរ 🇰🇭

I just want to correct some part. ឆ្កែធំ=big dog, whereas "ឆ្កែធំធំ"means big dogs. However, we don't write "ឆ្កែធំធំ​" but we write "ឆ្កែធំៗ". Thai & Khmer language have 30%of similar vocabulary because there are hundreds of Khmer loaned words in Thai, and there are almost a hundred of Thai loaned words in Khmer language as well.

Love the content. And your voice, also. It's soothing

This is eyes opening for me! Thanks for your explanation .

Thanks for having Khmer language on your channel 🙏

Thank you, it was so interesting story!

Interesting language! Nice video Julie.

Thank you JuLingo, you make channel Khmer language teaching and talking. we will see you again in Cambodia

Thank you for share 😍😘

Thank you for this lovely and informative video! I am very proud to be a Khmer.

amazing, i love learning and getting a different perspective of the same thing... all cooks explain their ways of cooking differently.

Wow….thank you for your VDO taking about Khmer language ❤

ខ្ញុំគឺជាជនជាតិខ្មែរ ខ្ញុំពិតជាមានមោទនភាពនឹងរំភើបឥតក្រៃលែងដែលឃើញបរទេសបានរៀនភាសាខ្មែរ ពីព្រោះខ្ញុំគិតថាវាពិតជាកម្រណាស់ អរគុណច្រើន❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤។

Cambodian people in is approximately 17 millions not 14 ❤. In Vietnam there are at least 5 million people live there who still speak Khmer language

Thank you so much From Cambodia 🇰🇭

I really liked the video, I have heard previously about the Khmer language but I did not know exactly what it was. I found the information presented on the video being very clear to understand, as well as easy to follow and now I’m better informed about this cool language! 😊

Thanks very much for doing this...I love it.

Hi. I am learning Khmer at the moment. I fnd it a fascinating language. I have been to Cambodia several times and love the warmth of the Khmer people. I would love to get a good grasp of the language.

Knowing just little bit of Khmer script has been helpful for when my ear doesn't pick up the vowel sounds and also for memorizing the words. O have all but forgotten how to read even the simplest text but I had two difficulties when learning to read. 1) If I didn't know the words already, I had difficulty determining which letters were silent and where the next word would start in order to look it up in dictionary. (which Is itself more complicated than dictionaries of Romance languages 2. I had difficulties of guessing the pronunciations of certain words of Bali/Sanskrit origin which lacked the special markings. I am not sure if all vowel sounds in speech stay true to their written forms. I did ask once and the native speaker said that the sound is the same despite them technically being different, depending on words surrounding it. Spoken and written, formal words can be quite different, so it takes more time to learn as a beginner. For example, the formal word 'pram-pi' in the market can be pronounced as pram-pal, m-pal, or just pal.

អរគុណសម្រាប់ការចែករំលែក។ 😍😍 Many thanks for your sharing Khmer language.

Língua cambojana, idioma cambojano 🇰🇭❤

first time encountered your channel , i just subscribed , Liked , and comment and shared this video . thank you so much for giving such as amazing and detail informative about my country and my language . Wish you the best of luck JuLingo :))))))

Good job, your presentation is perfect 👌

Excellent job!! Very good! Keep up the great work! Love- fellow supporter whom happens to be full blooded 100% khmai

Thanks for your video showing our culture!

Thank you for introduce our languages to the world 🇰🇭🇰🇭❤❤

As a Cambodian I'd love to see you sharing about Khmer

Thank you so much for sharing my country ❤❤

I will learn and speak Khmer... soon! 😍😍

Thank you for your sharing !

Thank you for sharing . I'm cambodian ♥️♥️

thank you for clearly description

Amazing that you tell all the world know'about our Khmer thank you, God bless you 🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏

It's similar with Khasi language from meghalaya north-east India

so nice You really know the history of Cambodia very well❤❤

amazing video, thank you for teaching Khmer

Khmer language is vary cool🇰🇭❤

Absolutely fantastic, thanks for sharing 🥰

Thanks sister for sharing about my Country, 💞💞💞

I'm Cambodian. Great tutorial. I love that 💞

Really good 😊

As I recall as I had to learn all Khmer alphabets and the rest. It took me a while trying to learn it in my first and second grade. I find it much easier to learn English faster than Khmer. As I also had to learn French in my 4th grade, I had no problem learning English later on. We will never stop learning until the last breath. Sharing is caring. Cheers 🍷

Wow Thank you for sharing.

The ocean of thank for you sharing about my country. 🙏🙏🙏💜💙💚

Thanks for sharing ❤

You are so good at these videos thank you ❤️

Thanks you so much from Cambodia ❤❤

Thanks for your video about Cambodia 🇰🇭 ❤

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. As a native khmer speaker, I'm always in awe whenever I see foreigners speak this language. It is very hard for us to follow all the grammar rules due to a big array of irregularities. We have numerous ways of saying one thing. Like mentioned in the video, there are different ways to say "eat" and those words shown in the video is just a very small number lol.

Good to see that. I'm Khmer native speaker ansd I speak English and French. Khmer language is different from English and French, it doesn't have plural noun itself if we want to say something more than 1 we have to add number . Ex: ខ្ញុំមានគោច្រើន គាត់មានឆ្កែពីរ I have many cows. He has 2 dogs . Votre explication est fantastique.

Thank you for sharing!!!!

Love your video from Cambodia.

Love your video ❤

❤thank you Julie for your beautiful VIDEO ❤

love your videos

Thank you so much teacher 🙇💗🥰

Thank you very much, like to learn about the history of my country, thank you very much

Thank very much

Wow amazing 😻 some Cambodian can’t know like you, but you’re really nice person to research of Khmer language ❤❤❤