This is a text about life of college students from provinces in Phnom Penh. Three students talk about their difficulties coming to the city to attend colleges.

Find the writing tasks at the end of this page.

This a conversation between V and H about H’s experience in Cambodia. There are slight differences between the script and the audio. But the differences will not affect your reading.

Here is the conversation script. I will deal with some Khmer grammar and word confusion in the next meeting. Practice reading this as much as you can. Try to read the script first before viewing the video.

Here is the video.

Here are the videos of how I pronounced the words in the list and the words. You can practice as much as you can.

Some Khmer words with Sub-consonants

Two Khmer signs that change the vowel sound

Here are the last consonants and vowels to learn.

THE CONSONANTS

THE VOWELS
The vowels here are written with the first consonant except the last vowel. I have removed some writing guides because you can use your intuition you acquired from learning the alphabets in the previous lessons.

Here are some units (combinations between the consonants and vowels you have learned so far) and meaningful words. Learn to pronounce them as much as you can. You may have questions with some irregularities. I will answer in the next meeting. It is best that you try to pronounce them first before my voice.

Meaningful words

As you move to more consonants and vowels, you may have forgotten some that you have learned before. But don’t worry. Even I have difficulty in recalling all Khmer alphabets because I read words, not alphabets. It will get more exciting when you start to read even a basic text. Here is a new lesson.

10 MORE CONSONANTS AND 5 MORE VOWELS

SOME CONSONANT-VOWEL COMBINATIONS

SOME MEANINGFUL WORDS

10 MORE CONSONANTS

5 MORE VOWELS

SOME MEANINGFUL WORDS