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 learned some Thai a few years ago, a language which also has a complicated spelling system, and I found it was easier to just learn the spellings as they are without worrying why they happen to be that way (for example sometimes a vowel is written with its own character, other times just implied. There are many silent letters. And there are multiple ways of writing the same sounds. It's like when you learn French there are accents on some words eg «contrôle» but not on others... Still very complicated though!
I am not so sure. However, the north Vietnamese Ha Noi speakers they are have the same accents as the Khmer. I am not sure if they have been migrate from the Khmer kingdom in ancient time. It is just difficult to understand with their accents when they speaking Vietnamese 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. ❤
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!
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.
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.
Yes, initially, although Khmer language has its own sound and word, it loaned the script from Nagari script, and later on, the script developed from time to time until nowadays. And Thai and Lao scripts loaned from the developed scripts by Khmer, and continued to develop on its own. We did loan the script, however, the sound of language and writing system still remain in Khmer way, making it to have different sound and writing system.
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. ❤️❤️
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.
Yes, it's very similar. Whether it's Thai, Lao and Khmer, for example, if you can speak Lao. You will be able to speak Thai as well. because they have the same Derived Personally, I'm a true Thai, born in the central region until one day I visited Laos..I could understand 90% of the Lao language spoken by native people
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.
ខ្ញុំពិតជារំភើបចំពោះបងស្រី ដែលបានគាំទ្រ និងបង្ហាញអក្សរសាស្រ្តខ្មែរទៅកាន់ពិភពលោក។ 🇰🇭🙏 I really appreciate of you for supporting and displaying my Khmer literature to the world.🙏🇰🇭
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! 👍👍
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.
Yes, very good classic oldies. I am Khmer American and reside in California. I will soon hope to create the first Khmer audio speaker brand, just didn't realize starting a speaker company is harder than it appears.
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.
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 …..🙏🇰🇭🇰🇭🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
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! 😊
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 🙏❤
@@ranyachau I have never been in Cambodia, but I have watched lots of programs and videos about it, I fell in love and I want to visit it and maybe stay there for many years ☸️☯️
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.
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.
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.
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😊
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.
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.
You sound a little like me. I studied Russian years ago and now want to pick it up again. However I am devoting most of my language learning to Spanish since it is more practical here in the U.S. as we have an open southern border now. My first foreign language was German. I have been wanting to study an asian language (specifically Southeast Asian) but have to avoid tonal languages like Vietnamese as the tones consume too much time and effort. I think I might look into Khmer since it's atonal. *I love studying languages too* . Good luck with your studies.
@@Bob31415 yeah, the tonal languages just add to my frustration. I'll probably just stick with Spanish. Any apps or other sites you're finding helpful for learning Spanish? Thanks!
These videos are simply beautiful. You present each language in such an in-depth way so as to fascinate language nerds like myself, whilst at the same time giving a flavour of the culture and history of the people who speak it. The videos are so tastefully made, your research is fantastic and you have such a lovely calm manner of presenting. I watch these videos both to inspire myself to travel and learn languages, as well as to relax before bed when I am stressed. Thank you so much for all your hard work and passion ❤
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.
As a fan of Psychedelic Rock in the U.S. from the late 60's, I'm very surprised to hear of it in Cambodia. Any suggestions as far as bands to listen to on youtube?
I'm curious how you're doing with that. I'm struggling to ever see myself grasping the language. lol Yes, not a good attitude for me to have, but it seems overwhelming at my age. Cheers from Texas!
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 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.
This is a very interesting video and covers so much of the historical background of the Khmer language. As a 31 year resident of Cambodia and having worked countrywide in construction, Khmer is now my dominate 2nd language. There is one thing that must not be forgotten and that is the rather diminished level of formal education of the Khmer language in the provinces and the further one goes into the provinces the at times extreme levels of accents and the basic pronunciation of the language that is used in provincial Khmer language can be very difficult to understand even for Phnom Penh formally educated Cambodians. If one learns formal spoken Khmer in Phnom Penh don't be surprised if your not understood in the outer provinces. You'll be greeted in silence, because its perceived because your a foreigner that you can't speak Khmer. The one speaking to will ask another Cambodian what did you say and answer will be given that your speaking Khmer then the realisation hits home, yes your speaking Khmer and conversation can proceed. Over the years I've been asked so many times is it difficult to learn Khmer and the best answer I could honestly give is that the Khmer spoken language is difficult by its simplicity. Such a contradiction really explains how the spoken language is structured due to the influences from where the speaker learnt to speak and in general market talk. I.E. counting backwards, 16 - dop bram moi -formal - bram moin dop - spoken. Ask any cop the colours of a traffic light and he'll tell you a green light is blue. Ask a seller in the market what a plastic dish made from they'll say metal (steel). Ask what a copper vase or copper pipe is is made from and they'll say brass. Ask in a restaurant what an octopus is called and they'll say squid and so the list goes on and on. Khmer is my 5th Language and after a month's class tuition 31 years ago I gave up to learn Khmer on site from the labourers as in general their level of education was quite low, many couldn't read or write the language and pronunciation varied greatly. but in order to train them it was important that the lessons were given over in the basic structure of their spoken language. After 31 years its still a learning curve. I may have a profound conversation in Khmer and the one I'm speaking with will say they're very impressed that I speak Khmer so clearly, then the next person I meet will have great difficulty in understanding me, particularly if I'm joking because foreigners don't know how to joke in the Khmer language anyway. The best thing is not to stop learning because its all very, very subjective on whom your conversing with and not take any rejection as being demeaning. A Cambodian university trained friend of mine gets totally pissed off when market people don't understand her and I mean gets really upset because they won't listen to what she's asking and ask her to repeat.
@Asahi Ogawa Regarding studying Khmer from a novel, that's quite an accomplishment to undertake and the best of luck in doing so. However the written Khmer language is not the spoken Khmer language which makes studying Khmer proficiently all the more difficult. This is why I concentrated on spoken Khmer as that's what is used daily to communicate with in market language. I can assure you you'll a long way in doing so, but don't drop your written studies because of it.
I had a friend who took Khmer lessons while I (still) learn by asking people how to say what I need to say. She got angry with me when I told her that I pronounce "ice" as "tuk-ah" but when she asks for ice they don't know what she is saying and I am served ice. I vowed then to never take classes. I have lived in Cambodia for 16 years and get complimented on my pronunciation regularly. However, I don't consider myself fluent at all because most people speak English with me so I am not immersed like you were in the countryside.
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 :))))))
@@japchaes i think you miss understand. I mean khmer befor is colony Siam of course. Did you learn that history is true but it hurt. We never speak khmer but we speak khom ka. have to accept the truth. Thai -khom ka
@@kittiyalegalpromma2689 Haha, only that type of information exists in Siamese history books because it was written by the siamese and actually never happened💀 Keep yapping, Cambodia was never a colony of Siamese😂
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.
Do you know the Assimil book "Le Khmer" , Collection SANS PEINE?
I learned some Thai a few years ago, a language which also has a complicated spelling system, and I found it was easier to just learn the spellings as they are without worrying why they happen to be that way (for example sometimes a vowel is written with its own character, other times just implied. There are many silent letters. And there are multiple ways of writing the same sounds. It's like when you learn French there are accents on some words eg «contrôle» but not on others... Still very complicated though!
@@andreahoehmann1939 I don't know it, but I would have loved to learn Khmer "sans peine."
If you can pronunciation of Khmer language you'll easy to pronounce to other languages.....
I am not so sure. However, the north Vietnamese Ha Noi speakers they are have the same accents as the Khmer. I am not sure if they have been migrate from the Khmer kingdom in ancient time. It is just difficult to understand with their accents when they speaking Vietnamese 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. ❤
Thank you!
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សូមអរគុណអ្នកខ្លាំងណាស់ Thank you so much from 🇰🇭🙏❤️
Love Turkiye, from Australia (via Cambodia).
Welcome❤❤
Welcome ❤
Thanhs guys
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!
Isn't it strange? How the world turns.....
The world turns for you. And it turns for everybody else too just a little bit differently. ✌
Thank you for your interested
@Neicha Reich that's fascinating!
The World 🌎 turns in killings and Sufferings and Wars and invasion To Be Exact.....👎🇻🇳🇷🇺🇨🇳👎
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.
Thank you for interested in Cambodia....if not involved in Political..... everything is okay 👍
Khmer* , not Kymer*
@@MoonFairy66 my apologies, she learned it not i.
@@sojolly I know that, I just corrected your typo in your comment above.
@@MoonFairy66 เสียบราฐ ไม่ใช่เสียมเรียบ😊😊
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.
Yes, initially, although Khmer language has its own sound and word, it loaned the script from Nagari script, and later on, the script developed from time to time until nowadays. And Thai and Lao scripts loaned from the developed scripts by Khmer, and continued to develop on its own. We did loan the script, however, the sound of language and writing system still remain in Khmer way, making it to have different sound and writing system.
I'm South African and Khmer is the first language in my polyglot journey...never been overseas though, hopefully next year I'll relocate
Curious, how is it going so far...and why khmer
អរគុណច្រើន🙏!ចំពោះការចែករំលែកការរៀនភាសាខ្មែរ💛🇰🇭👍👏👏🏻 Thank you so much 🙏💛💐.
You uploaded this video right when I was becoming fangirl-level obsessed with that Khmer rapper, Vannda. This is great!
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. ❤️❤️
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.
Yes, it's very similar. Whether it's Thai, Lao and Khmer, for example, if you can speak Lao. You will be able to speak Thai as well. because they have the same Derived Personally, I'm a true Thai, born in the central region until one day I visited Laos..I could understand 90% of the Lao language spoken by native people
Pali is from Nepal , Sanskrit is from india, so we partially understand khame
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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 so proud as a Cambodian speaking in Khmer ❤thank you for your research and sharing 🎉
Why?
ในฐานะที่ผมเป็นคนไทย ผมภูมิใจมากที่คนเขมรครึ่งประเทศ เรียนรู้ที่จะพูดภาษาไทย เรียนรู้เกี่ยวกับไทยทุกๆอย่าง
ខ្ញុំមិនដែលនិយាយភាសាថៃទេ ហើយក៏មិនចាប់អារម្មណ៍ដែរ អ្នកដែលចេះថៃមួយចំនួនដោយសារពួកគេធ្លាប់ធ្វើការនៅថៃ។ បើធៀបអ្នករៀនភាសាថែនៅខ្មែរមានតិចជាងភាសា អង់គ្លេស បារាំង កូរ៉េ ចិន ។ហើយក៏ធ្លាប់ឃើញព័ត៌មានដែលសិស្សថៃចាប់អារម្មណ៍រៀនភាសាខ្មែរផងដែរ សម្រាប់ជនជាតិខ្មែរភាសាថៃមិនពិបាកនិយាយនោះទេ ព្រោះថាភាសាថៃបច្ចុប្បន្នបានកម្ចីពាក្យពីភាសាខ្មែរ។ គួរតែស្វែងយល់ពីខ្មែរឲច្បាស់សិន។
As a Thai I'm also proud that half khmer population learn Thai and become servant in Thailand
@@grapesofwrath1984 why you asking like that?
so good to see Juli again !! Khmer is a cool langauge
ចាសូមស្វាគមន៍ yep Welcome ..
Congratulations on 100K subscribers! Well-deserved. 🙂
Thanks
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 🇰🇭
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! 👍👍
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.
Yes, very good classic oldies. I am Khmer American and reside in California. I will soon hope to create the first Khmer audio speaker brand, just didn't realize starting a speaker company is harder than it appears.
@@bongchan531 Cool! I hope your company is successful.
Good advice. I would hardly describe Sinn Sisamouth as rock music though, much as I love his voice and songs.
@@vickocambodia8349 I guess you’re right. Maybe just a bit of his music was rock, but I agree he had an amazing voice and so many good songs.
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.
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 …..🙏🇰🇭🇰🇭🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
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! 😊
ខ្ញុំគឺជាជនជាតិខ្មែរ ខ្ញុំពិតជាមានមោទនភាពនឹងរំភើបឥតក្រៃលែងដែលឃើញបរទេសបានរៀនភាសាខ្មែរ ពីព្រោះខ្ញុំគិតថាវាពិតជាកម្រណាស់ អរគុណច្រើន❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤។
Khamer Language is Very Difficult.
Are you working in Cambodia? Yes even though I am Cambodian I think the Khmer language is difficult too.
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 🙏❤
YES YES YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIIIIME
Love from Ukraine to Cambodia 💜💜
Thanks
I am Cambodian... :D
@@ranyachau I have never been in Cambodia, but I have watched lots of programs and videos about it, I fell in love and I want to visit it and maybe stay there for many years ☸️☯️
@@кусокводы Hmmm Yes....
@@ranyachau same
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.
Thank you so much From Cambodia 🇰🇭
Thanks for having Khmer language on your channel 🙏
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.
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.
នាងនិយាយពីពាក្យក្នុងសិលាចារិកទេដឹងបង?
មកពីពុម្ភអក្សរនៅក្នុងកម្មវិធីកាត់តវីដេអូ ជាទូទៅគឺបញ្ហាពុម្ភអក្សរកើតឡើងជារឿយៗ ដូចជា CapCut ជាដើម
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 from Cambodia 🇰🇭 yes we do speak Khmer and we also call ourselves Khmer in our own language 😊
Hello!
Thanks you so much for the video sharing about Cambodia 🇰🇭 ❤
I really appreciate with you for loving my Khmer language love you so much from Cambodia 🇰🇭🇰🇭
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. 😊
Thank you JuLingo, you make channel Khmer language teaching and talking. we will see you again in 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.
Yes! I love the fact it doesn't have tones.
Thank you for your researching 💕💕💕💕💕 អគុណសម្រាប់ការចែករំលែក🙏🙏
In the name of Cambodian, I am thank you for sharing about Khmer.❤ I always support you. 😊
Love khmer from your khasi brother
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.
You sound a little like me. I studied Russian years ago and now want to pick it up again. However I am devoting most of my language learning to Spanish since it is more practical here in the U.S. as we have an open southern border now. My first foreign language was German. I have been wanting to study an asian language (specifically Southeast Asian) but have to avoid tonal languages like Vietnamese as the tones consume too much time and effort. I think I might look into Khmer since it's atonal. *I love studying languages too* . Good luck with your studies.
@@Bob31415 yeah, the tonal languages just add to my frustration. I'll probably just stick with Spanish. Any apps or other sites you're finding helpful for learning Spanish? Thanks!
@@stevegunn9971 Hello Steve. I pretty much learn it the old fashioned way with books and CDs.
These videos are simply beautiful.
You present each language in such an in-depth way so as to fascinate language nerds like myself, whilst at the same time giving a flavour of the culture and history of the people who speak it. The videos are so tastefully made, your research is fantastic and you have such a lovely calm manner of presenting. I watch these videos both to inspire myself to travel and learn languages, as well as to relax before bed when I am stressed. Thank you so much for all your hard work and passion ❤
You have one of my favorite channels on youtube! Thank you for your effort! Paldies
Thank you for sharing . I'm cambodian ♥️♥️
amazing, i love learning and getting a different perspective of the same thing... all cooks explain their ways of cooking differently.
Khmer is one of the old ancients language in mainland southeast asia.
Thanks you so much from Cambodia ❤❤
This is eyes opening for me!
Thanks for your explanation .
Thank you so much for learning Khmer language.❤
I'm Cambodian. Great tutorial. I love that 💞
Yes thank you so much, who explain about Khmer 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.
I wanted to learn Khmer because I like Cambodian music, especifically Psychedelic Rock. Those songs are so good I got nterested in Cambodian language.
I can help you
As a fan of Psychedelic Rock in the U.S. from the late 60's, I'm very surprised to hear of it in Cambodia. Any suggestions as far as bands to listen to on youtube?
Love the content. And your voice, also. It's soothing
Thanks for your video about Cambodia 🇰🇭 ❤
Very informative, thanks!
Thank you for share 😍😘
I really appreciate your video about my country Cambodia and it ancient Angkor Wat🙏🏼
Thanks for your video showing our culture!
I will learn and speak Khmer... soon! 😍😍
I'm curious how you're doing with that. I'm struggling to ever see myself grasping the language. lol Yes, not a good attitude for me to have, but it seems overwhelming at my age. Cheers from Texas!
Thank you so much for sharing my country ❤❤
អរគុណសម្រាប់ការចែករំលែក។ 😍😍 Many thanks for your sharing Khmer language.
Interesting language! Nice video Julie.
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 introduce our languages to the world 🇰🇭🇰🇭❤❤
Thanks sister for sharing about my Country, 💞💞💞
Thank❤
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.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for talking about my country
ពិតជាល្អខ្លាំងណាស់ អ្នកបានបង្រៀនភាសាខ្មែរ
This is a very interesting video and covers so much of the historical background of the Khmer language. As a 31 year resident of Cambodia and having worked countrywide in construction, Khmer is now my dominate 2nd language. There is one thing that must not be forgotten and that is the rather diminished level of formal education of the Khmer language in the provinces and the further one goes into the provinces the at times extreme levels of accents and the basic pronunciation of the language that is used in provincial Khmer language can be very difficult to understand even for Phnom Penh formally educated Cambodians. If one learns formal spoken Khmer in Phnom Penh don't be surprised if your not understood in the outer provinces. You'll be greeted in silence, because its perceived because your a foreigner that you can't speak Khmer. The one speaking to will ask another Cambodian what did you say and answer will be given that your speaking Khmer then the realisation hits home, yes your speaking Khmer and conversation can proceed. Over the years I've been asked so many times is it difficult to learn Khmer and the best answer I could honestly give is that the Khmer spoken language is difficult by its simplicity. Such a contradiction really explains how the spoken language is structured due to the influences from where the speaker learnt to speak and in general market talk. I.E. counting backwards, 16 - dop bram moi -formal - bram moin dop - spoken. Ask any cop the colours of a traffic light and he'll tell you a green light is blue. Ask a seller in the market what a plastic dish made from they'll say metal (steel). Ask what a copper vase or copper pipe is is made from and they'll say brass. Ask in a restaurant what an octopus is called and they'll say squid and so the list goes on and on. Khmer is my 5th Language and after a month's class tuition 31 years ago I gave up to learn Khmer on site from the labourers as in general their level of education was quite low, many couldn't read or write the language and pronunciation varied greatly. but in order to train them it was important that the lessons were given over in the basic structure of their spoken language. After 31 years its still a learning curve. I may have a profound conversation in Khmer and the one I'm speaking with will say they're very impressed that I speak Khmer so clearly, then the next person I meet will have great difficulty in understanding me, particularly if I'm joking because foreigners don't know how to joke in the Khmer language anyway. The best thing is not to stop learning because its all very, very subjective on whom your conversing with and not take any rejection as being demeaning. A Cambodian university trained friend of mine gets totally pissed off when market people don't understand her and I mean gets really upset because they won't listen to what she's asking and ask her to repeat.
@Asahi Ogawa Regarding studying Khmer from a novel, that's quite an accomplishment to undertake and the best of luck in doing so. However the written Khmer language is not the spoken Khmer language which makes studying Khmer proficiently all the more difficult. This is why I concentrated on spoken Khmer as that's what is used daily to communicate with in market language. I can assure you you'll a long way in doing so, but don't drop your written studies because of it.
I had a friend who took Khmer lessons while I (still) learn by asking people how to say what I need to say. She got angry with me when I told her that I pronounce "ice" as "tuk-ah" but when she asks for ice they don't know what she is saying and I am served ice. I vowed then to never take classes. I have lived in Cambodia for 16 years and get complimented on my pronunciation regularly. However, I don't consider myself fluent at all because most people speak English with me so I am not immersed like you were in the countryside.
@@themaven2017 Yes I feel your right, face to face in the market slow but surer. The Monkey see, Monkey do way, it never fails.👍👍
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
Really good 😊
Proudly born as Khmer and owned Khmer language, art, culture,traditional, architect,
❤thank you Julie for your beautiful VIDEO ❤
Khmer Language អក្សរសាស្រ្តខ្មែរ🇰🇭🇰🇭
Love you 😘 So much ❤ Thanks you 🙏
Wow….thank you for your VDO taking about Khmer language ❤
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 :))))))
Thank you, it was so interesting story!
Love your video from Cambodia.
Thanks very much for doing this...I love it.
Hello. I am a Thai-Mon from Thailand. My maternal ancestors speak Mon language. There are some similarities between Khmer and Mon. Thank you.
Finally a peaceful and educated Thai person
@@japchaesdo you education more guy.
Khmer is colony thai or siam.
Do you know that.?
@@kittiyalegalpromma2689 Don't think you're so "educated", Cambodia was never a colony of Siam. Go do more deep research before yapping
@@japchaes i think you miss understand.
I mean khmer befor is colony
Siam of course.
Did you learn that history is true but it hurt.
We never speak khmer but we speak khom ka.
have to accept the truth.
Thai -khom ka
@@kittiyalegalpromma2689 Haha, only that type of information exists in Siamese history books because it was written by the siamese and actually never happened💀 Keep yapping, Cambodia was never a colony of Siamese😂
Khmer language is vary cool🇰🇭❤
Thank you for this video . 🇰🇭🇰🇭
Thank you for your sharing !
Thanks you for content. I am Cambodia🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭
As a Cambodian I'd love to see you sharing about Khmer
I love their writing system, I wishh all languages/dialect would have their own writing script.
Extremeky interesting and well done, as usual.
Thank you from cambodia
Thanak you for sharing my khmer languages🙏
Angelic Julie, your voice is so calming, so relaxing! 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
thank you for clearly description
Língua cambojana, idioma cambojano 🇰🇭❤
ខ្ញុំពិតជាអរគុណអ្នកខ្លាំងណាស់ចំពោះការពន្យល់យ៉ាងក្បោះក្បាយពីភាសាខ្មែរ ❤
Very appreciated your video about Khmer language ❤
amazing video, thank you for teaching Khmer
Thank you for this lovely and informative video! I am very proud to be a Khmer.
You are so good at these videos thank you ❤️