Can anyone teach me some more Khmer?
August 12, 2008 by admin · 1 Comment
my parets are mad because for some reason i dont seem to learn it with them, i barely understand it and im full Khmer. help
My friends wife is full Khmer from Phnom Penh.I can put you in contact with her if you like.
which is easier to learn: Thai, Lao, or Burmese?
July 14, 2008 by admin · 1 Comment
Is it easy for a Khmer speaker to learn these language?
Lao
Khmer or Thai?
May 14, 2008 by admin · 6 Comments
Should i learn Khmer or Thai?
If you are not already speaking a language that is related to either one, then Khmer is easier because it is not tonal. Thai can be difficult because the different pitch of the same sound can have different meanings. You have to speak Thai with a firm and consistent pitch to say the word that you want. However, there are many westerners who can speak pretty good Thai.
Khmer also has some similar grammar to English such as subject-verb-object.
Please be sure to read the last reference. I guess overall it might be easier to learn Thai because it seems to be more logical.
I would try both and see which one you like and have more fun learning.
Good luck or Choke Dee
Is Khmer very similar to Thai?
April 11, 2008 by admin · 3 Comments
Is Kmer very close to Thai, i mean when it comes to similarities. Are they similar? If you learn Thai, is it much easier to learn Khmer and the other way round?
I know Thai but have difficulty understanding or speaking Khmer.
I imagine it is the same for Cambodians trying to learn Thai.
Thai and Laotian are much more similar.
So I would try both and see which one you like best.
Good luck.
Does the Khmer language sound like it would be hard to learn (for anybody non-Cambodian)?
February 12, 2008 by admin · 1 Comment
They have to roll a lot of their words. It sounds kind of forced to me, even with native speakers of that language.
Learning a new language is always challenging. There are factors that can make it either easier or harder, however. If you already know any Asian language, or if you have ever learned a second language, learning Cambodian should be doable for you–with effort.
I have learned Thai, some Laotian and Chinese. I have heard Khmer spoken on several occasions, and have seen their writing script. I think I could learn it, given sufficient time and exposure to it. One nice thing about it is that with the writing script, at least it has an alphabet. (Chinese has no alphabet, and is therefore next to impossible to pick out words from a dictionary and/or learn to read.) Thai has a 76-letter alphabet, which is vastly easier to learn than the 6000+characters of Chinese. I think Khmer is similar to Thai, in that sense.
The best way to know if it would be difficult for you, is to get a book with a tape or CD on the language and then try imitating the practice words it gives you. To learn a language properly, it is always best to learn to read it as well.
Scientifically, there are two known skills that correlate to an increased ability to learn a language: musical ability and mathematical. I'm not sure why the math helps, but the music really helps when you learn a tonal language in which the inflection of the word will change its meaning!