All our course material comes directly from NTIS, notice their price is $500 for Volume I and II, our price is $19.95!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a picture of our Cambodian Basic Course Cassettes that we mastered using the Tascam Pro Audio equipment below. Double click the images to see a detailed image.

 

Learning Cambodian Language

Language Experts agree, our courses are the most complete and thorough self-instructional language course available. Repetition, vocabulary, sentence structure are the building blocks our course utilizes to teach a language. Lots of repetition drills. Dialog drills. Pronunciation drills. Vocabulary. The audio material is from native speakers and the corresponding textbook is your guide. Our Methodology, Guided Imitation, sets the student on a path to a certified level of fluency. We no longer sell our courses in Volume I and Volume II, so there's no up sell for the next level. You will receive the entire course material, on DVD, for the lowest price we can afford to produce, $19.95. Our shipping cost is $5.45 for domestic shipping and $16.45 for international shipping, which is the exact price we pay the U.S. Postal Service to ship priority mail. We do not make money off of shipping, and ship priority mail because it is the fastest and least expensive way to ship. The DVD will play in both a PC or MAC, and the audio can easily be saved to an IPOD or other MP3 device. You will need Adobe Reader to access the PDF textbook.

Our Value Proposition

The Cambodian Basic Course, as you can see, sells for $500 from NTIS, the United States printing service for audio/visual materials; however, they only sell it on audio cassette as you can see from our screen capture of their shopping cart. We purchased the material from NTIS, as evidenced by the screenshot provided of the original Cambodian Basic Course Audio Cassettes, and did the remastering work. We had the textbook professionally digitized into a PDF file. And then we spent countless hours remastering the cassette to a digital form, now we are providing this course to you for less than 4% of the cost of original material. Only $19.95!

Our Quality Proposition: It's all about the Remastering!

We used Tascam Pro Audio equipment to do the initial digital remastering from cassette to compact disc. Once completed, we converted the compact discs into an uncompressed WAV file. We copied what would have been on Side B of the Cassettes, to the end of Side A, creating one continous file, saving again as a WAV file. We used audio software, like Nero and Audacity, to clean up the audio even more. This multi step process includes converting the mono file to stereo, normalizing the volume across the entire WAV file, removing "clicks and pops", doing a low frequency filter, then a high frequency filter, truncating silences to 3 seconds to ensure the audio is quick to begin and end without dead space, normalized the volume again, and outputting the file as another WAV file. We used an MP3 encoder to convert the WAV file to an MP3 file, and we tagged all files with Subject, Title, Copyright, Volume I, Volume II data.

What does all this mean?

The remastering process and filter work means that silence sounds like silence. And in this case, silence truly is golden. Our product is of unparalleled quality, and we can honestly make the claim that no one has spent more time making these courses sound as good as our courses sound. We have provided significant improvements to the sound quality versus the original masters, and even the material we were selling just a year ago, thanks to current technology. All you have to do is open our files in a sound editor and see that silence is a straight line, not wavy, and this means clarity.

About the Cambodian Language Course

FSI Cambodian Language Course contains 28 hours of audio, and two textbooks in PDF file format with 820 pages.

The material of the Cambodian Basic Course is arranged in groups of five units with a common theme. The first four units of each sequence are based on Dialogues, usually in the Phnom Penh dialect, and the fifth is based on a Narration, in Standard Cambodian, which reviews the immediately preceding subject matter. The text for Units 1-20 is entirely in standard style. From Unit 21 on, most of the text is given in Phnom Penh dialect (except for the Narrations), but a parallel Standard version of each Dialogue is provided in the Dialogue for Comprehension. Vocabulary lists include both forms wherever there is a difference.

Drills are recorded first for listening, then for familiarization through repetition, and finally for participation. During the participation step, when the student performs the required manipulation, his utterances are confirmed on the audio immediately following the space provided for his participation.

Drills are generally in two groups in any unit: a) variation drills on pattern sentences, which provide opportunities for the student to develop flexibility in the use of patterns already memorized, and b) grammar drills, which are intended to provide practice for the student in the operation of the patterns explained in the immediately preceding grammar notes.

Learning Cambodian 1 - Classroom expressions

Learning Cambodian 2 - Please say it again. Khmer is easy to learn.

Learning Cambodian 3 - Open books to page three, the yellow book. Numbers and colors

Learning Cambodian 4 - The word "learn"

Learning Cambodian 5 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 6 - Questions and answers in Cambodian

Learning Cambodian 7 - Answer my question

Learning Cambodian 8 - Khmer is hard to learn

Learning Cambodian 9 - Discussing the difficulties of writing in Khmer

Learning Cambodian 10 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 11 - Classroom objects like a pencil, book, pictures

Learning Cambodian 12 - Discussing the map of Cambodia

Learning Cambodian 13 - Numbers and colors

Learning Cambodian 14 - Making comparisons

Learning Cambodian 15 - Discussing classroom objects

Learning Cambodian 16 - Numbers and colors.

Learning Cambodian 17 - Comparisons: Smallest and Largest

Learning Cambodian 18 - Describing the picture of the flag

Learning Cambodian 19 - Dialogue

Learning Cambodian 20 - Counting

Learning Cambodian 21 - Greetings: Hello, how are you?

Learning Cambodian 22 - Is she Cambodian?

Learning Cambodian 23 - Is your family in Phnom Penh?

Learning Cambodian 24 - What's your name?

Learning Cambodian 25 - Where did you study Cambodian?

Learning Cambodian 26 - How are your children?

Learning Cambodian 27 - Discussing the house

Learning Cambodian 28 - Invitation to eat

Learning Cambodian 29 - Car breaks down

Learning Cambodian 30 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 31 - Directions to the restaurant

Learning Cambodian 32 - Directions to the post office

Learning Cambodian 33 - Where would you like to go?

Learning Cambodian 34 - Going to Angkor Wat on the weekend

Learning Cambodian 35 - How far is Angkor Wat from Siem Riap?

Learning Cambodian 36 - Plan to rent a boat

Learning Cambodian 37 - Are we about to arrive in Phnom Penh?

Learning Cambodian 38 - I want to buy a ticket to Poipet

Learning Cambodian 39 - My car won't start the battery is run down

Learning Cambodian 40 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 41 - Buying cloth for a suit

Learning Cambodian 42 - Do you know any soothsayers

Learning Cambodian 43 - At the barber

Learning Cambodian 44 - Are you a soldier? Where are you from? What rank are you?

Learning Cambodian 45 - Narration: Going to the market and shopping

Learning Cambodian 46 - Going to the market

Learning Cambodian 47 - At the Kok Meng restaurant

Learning Cambodian 48 - What time does the movie start

Learning Cambodian 49 - Going to the movies

Learning Cambodian 50 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 51 - Have you gone anywhere today? Shopping?

Learning Cambodian 52 - Do you have a fever?

Learning Cambodian 53 - Cambodian Restaraunt

Learning Cambodian 54 - Going to school

Learning Cambodian 55 - Going to the Doctors

Learning Cambodian 56 - Preparing a meal, what time do we eat?

Learning Cambodian 57 - Do you have brothers and sisters?

Learning Cambodian 58 - Work around the house, cooking..

Learning Cambodian 59 - How much to rent a room

Learning Cambodian 60 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 61 - Planning a trip to Kompong Cham

Learning Cambodian 62 - Boarding the boat

Learning Cambodian 63 - Arriving in Kompong Cham by boat

Learning Cambodian 64 - Today is Bon Pheum, all the stores are closed

Learning Cambodian 65 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 66 - Hello, I am well, how many years have you studied

Learning Cambodian 67 - What subjects do they teach here?

Learning Cambodian 68 - Monks only eat two times a day

Learning Cambodian 69 - Cambodia has many nationalities

Learning Cambodian 70 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 71 - Discussing the Mekong River

Learning Cambodian 72 - Farming and the Mekong River

Learning Cambodian 73 - Hello, how are your children?

Learning Cambodian 74 - Planning to seed the crops

Learning Cambodian 75 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 76 - When did you arrive?

Learning Cambodian 77 - Shopping for clothes

Learning Cambodian 78 - Arriving in Phnom Penh

Learning Cambodian 79 - What to pack for Phnom Penh

Learning Cambodian 80 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 81 - Returning from the airport

Learning Cambodian 82 - Studying in Cambodia

Learning Cambodian 83 - System of educationin Cambodia

Learning Cambodian 84 - Method of examinations

Learning Cambodian 85 - Narration

Learning Cambodian 86 - Newspapers in Cambodia

Learning Cambodian 87 - Is the paper private or government?

Learning Cambodian 88 - Newspapers

Learning Cambodian 89 - Listening to the radio

Learning Cambodian 90 - Narration

About the Cambodian Language

Over five and a half million people in Cambodia speak as their mother-tongue the language called Cambodian or Khmer. The Cambodian language is a member of the Mon-Khmer language family which includes many languages and dialects spoken in Burma and Malaya as well as in Cambodia.

Cambodians vary in their speech habits as much as speakers of any other languages. Thus there are dialectal differences in the speech of Cambodians native to Siem Reap or Battambang or various other areas of Cambodia, as compared with the speakers of Phnom Penh.

There are two series of vowels and diphthongs in Cambodian, which will be called the first and second "registers." Second register vowels and diphthongs are marked by a accent.

Short vowels do not occur in native Cambodian words without a final consonant following them. When a Cambodian needs to pronounce a short vowel with no consonant following it, he closes the vowel with a glottal stop or, sometimes, with a k.