Hey English teacher out there

Samouth · Post by **Samouth** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:01 pm

i don't know if you guy have noticed this. Many Cambodians don't pronounce the word with the ending consonant especially the one ends with S, ES and ED because khmer doesn't have intonation like English. I wonder how can you help your student with their pronunciation.

Last night i was talking with a few CEO members and i felt like they found it hard to understand me. I needed to repeat the word again and again or maybe it was too noisy, so they can't hear me clearly

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frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:06 pm

plus they were drunk.

every Cambodian calls me Jame

Samouth · Post by **Samouth** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:09 pm

Including me haha. i am still struggling with it. If i speak fast i always forget s, es.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:31 pm

Yeah, sometimes you can guess the word from the context, but when a Khmer says to you: "He is fren" - you have to work out if the guy is a friend, French or both

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:42 pm

He could also be called Frank !

Samouth · Post by **Samouth** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:35 am

I think there are so many words in English that you guys could hear the same when we pronounce them.

Example
1. See, She, Sea
2. Help, Have
3. six, sex, sick

I bet many Cambodians would laugh so badly if you say this word in front of them especially when we ( local) say it.
Turmoil

MekongMouse · Post by **MekongMouse** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:18 am

frank lee bent wrote:plus they were drunk.

every Cambodian calls me Jame

Heh, I'm often called Mac instead of Matt. I kind of like it.

Post by **Username Taken** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:07 am

When I was teaching, a student asked me to say the following words,
thin, thing, think

After I said them, she said, "Oh, so they're all the same".
I said the words again adding stress to the final consonants, but alas, they were still all the same.

MekongMouse · Post by **MekongMouse** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:12 am

Heh, I say "cow" and "baby" in khmer the same apparently. For awhile I said "to work" like I did "to need" (twerka/troukar). Stuff that seems really clear when you're used to the sounds appears as the same when you're not. I can definitely see getting tripped up on thin/thing/think.

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:57 pm

Asian-English is cute, im used to it and can decipher it pretty easy, tbh because of my northern english accent i have to talk with a broken english cambodian accent when im speaking english to a khmer haha although my khmer has improved loads over the past 5 months, its when khmer try typing khmer in english that becomes the problem, everything seems to look abbreviated because they just write how they think it sounds because theres no true romany english for cambodian i dont think, say like if a friend uploads a photo on fb the amount of different spellings is funny...Sa-art, Saart, Sart, Saat, Art nas haha

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