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.

 

Speaking 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 Basic Course

FSI Cambodian Basic 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.

Speaking Cambodian 1 - Classroom expressions

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

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

Speaking Cambodian 4 - The word "Speaking"

Speaking Cambodian 5 - Narration

Speaking Cambodian 6 - Questions and answers in Cambodian

Speaking Cambodian 7 - Answer my question

Speaking Cambodian 8 - Khmer is hard to learn

Speaking Cambodian 9 - Discussing the difficulties of writing in Khmer

Speaking Cambodian 10 - Narration

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

Speaking Cambodian 12 - Discussing the map of Cambodia

Speaking Cambodian 13 - Numbers and colors

Speaking Cambodian 14 - Making comparisons

Speaking Cambodian 15 - Discussing classroom objects

Speaking Cambodian 16 - Numbers and colors.

Speaking Cambodian 17 - Comparisons: Smallest and Largest

Speaking Cambodian 18 - Describing the picture of the flag

Speaking Cambodian 19 - Dialogue

Speaking Cambodian 20 - Counting

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

Speaking Cambodian 22 - Is she Cambodian?

Speaking Cambodian 23 - Is your family in Phnom Penh?

Speaking Cambodian 24 - What's your name?

Speaking Cambodian 25 - Where did you study Cambodian?

Speaking Cambodian 26 - How are your children?

Speaking Cambodian 27 - Discussing the house

Speaking Cambodian 28 - Invitation to eat

Speaking Cambodian 29 - Car breaks down

Speaking Cambodian 30 - Narration

Speaking Cambodian 31 - Directions to the restaurant

Speaking Cambodian 32 - Directions to the post office

Speaking Cambodian 33 - Where would you like to go?

Speaking Cambodian 34 - Going to Angkor Wat on the weekend

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

Speaking Cambodian 36 - Plan to rent a boat

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

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

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

Speaking Cambodian 40 - Narration

Speaking Cambodian 41 - Buying cloth for a suit

Speaking Cambodian 42 - Do you know any soothsayers

Speaking Cambodian 43 - At the barber

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

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

Speaking Cambodian 46 - Going to the market

Speaking Cambodian 47 - At the Kok Meng restaurant

Speaking Cambodian 48 - What time does the movie start

Speaking Cambodian 49 - Going to the movies

Speaking Cambodian 50 - Narration

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

Speaking Cambodian 52 - Do you have a fever?

Speaking Cambodian 53 - Cambodian Restaraunt

Speaking Cambodian 54 - Going to school

Speaking Cambodian 55 - Going to the Doctors

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

Speaking Cambodian 57 - Do you have brothers and sisters?

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

Speaking Cambodian 59 - How much to rent a room

Speaking Cambodian 60 - Narration

Speaking Cambodian 61 - Planning a trip to Kompong Cham

Speaking Cambodian 62 - Boarding the boat

Speaking Cambodian 63 - Arriving in Kompong Cham by boat

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

Speaking Cambodian 65 - Narration

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

Speaking Cambodian 67 - What subjects do they teach here?

Speaking Cambodian 68 - Monks only eat two times a day

Speaking Cambodian 69 - Cambodia has many nationalities

Speaking Cambodian 70 - Narration

Speaking Cambodian 71 - Discussing the Mekong River

Speaking Cambodian 72 - Farming and the Mekong River

Speaking Cambodian 73 - Hello, how are your children?

Speaking Cambodian 74 - Planning to seed the crops

Speaking Cambodian 75 - Narration

Speaking Cambodian 76 - When did you arrive?

Speaking Cambodian 77 - Shopping for clothes

Speaking Cambodian 78 - Arriving in Phnom Penh

Speaking Cambodian 79 - What to pack for Phnom Penh

Speaking Cambodian 80 - Narration

Speaking Cambodian 81 - Returning from the airport

Speaking Cambodian 82 - Studying in Cambodia

Speaking Cambodian 83 - System of educationin Cambodia

Speaking Cambodian 84 - Method of examinations

Speaking Cambodian 85 - Narration

Speaking Cambodian 86 - Newspapers in Cambodia

Speaking Cambodian 87 - Is the paper private or government?

Speaking Cambodian 88 - Newspapers

Speaking Cambodian 89 - Listening to the radio

Speaking 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.