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by Khla
Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:56 pm
Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
Topic: Your speaking khmer attempts
Replies: 88
Views: 22101

Re: Your speaking khmer attempts

Oh well. I constantly confuse the "wiggle to the left" and "wiggle to the right" of ngo and njo, lol.
by Khla
Mon Jul 13, 2015 4:07 am
Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
Topic: Your speaking khmer attempts
Replies: 88
Views: 22101

Re: Your speaking khmer attempts

LOL. Oh yeah I remember exactly this example when somone tried to say "tchnainj" they would always say "tchnang" - it would be really funny during a conversation when everybody got confused then. Everybody gets confused by romanized Khmer. Everyone should write Khmer script to a...
by Khla
Mon Jul 13, 2015 4:04 am
Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
Topic: Your speaking khmer attempts
Replies: 88
Views: 22101

Re: Your speaking khmer attempts

LOL. Oh yeah I remember exactly this example when somone tried to say "tchnainj" they would always say "tchnang" - it would be really funny during a conversation when everybody got confused then. Everybody gets confused by romanized Khmer. Everyone should write Khmer script to a...
by Khla
Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:23 am
Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
Topic: Khmer Language Questions (Learning and Speaking Cambodian)
Replies: 486
Views: 115093

Re: Khmer lessons related questions

Oh, nice thread. Uhm, I have a question that might sound a bit strange. If you write Khmer in Latin letters (because you either can't write in Khmer script or don't have Khmer keyboard), are there any rules? For example, I always end up writing words completely different than I see them written by ...
by Khla
Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:08 pm
Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
Topic: Your speaking khmer attempts
Replies: 88
Views: 22101

Re: Your speaking khmer attempts

Samouth, I have a question for you. My wife's family often uses the Khmer word toin, rhymes with the English word join, to ask me if I am stressed at big family parties that are loud and have many screaming kids running around. I've asked one other person what toin means, and he suggested it meant ...
by Khla
Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:55 pm
Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
Topic: Your speaking khmer attempts
Replies: 88
Views: 22101

Re: Your speaking khmer attempts

Samouth, I have a question for you. My wife's family often uses the Khmer word toin, rhymes with the English word join, to ask me if I am stressed at big family parties that are loud and have many screaming kids running around. I've asked one other person what toin means, and he suggested it meant ...
by Khla
Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:38 pm
Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
Topic: Khmer Language Questions (Learning and Speaking Cambodian)
Replies: 486
Views: 115093

Re: Khmer lessons related questions

Oh, nice thread. Uhm, I have a question that might sound a bit strange. If you write Khmer in Latin letters (because you either can't write in Khmer script or don't have Khmer keyboard), are there any rules? For example, I always end up writing words completely different than I see them written by ...
by Khla
Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:06 pm
Forum: General Chatter
Topic: Introduce Yourself
Replies: 2078
Views: 543592

Re: Introduce Yourself

Ok. I always hang out with a bunch of German. Most of them are volunteering with Germany Government-Funded organisation like GIZ and Germany embassy and i always saw him most of the time, but haven't talked with him that much. It would be nice to hear the story how your parents ended up living in G...
by Khla
Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:13 pm
Forum: General Chatter
Topic: Introduce Yourself
Replies: 2078
Views: 543592

Re: Introduce Yourself

Ok. I always hang out with a bunch of German. Most of them are volunteering with Germany Government-Funded organisation like GIZ and Germany embassy and i always saw him most of the time, but haven't talked with him that much. It would be nice to hear the story how your parents ended up living in G...
by Khla
Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:48 pm
Forum: Cambodian Culture and Language
Topic: Khmer Language Questions (Learning and Speaking Cambodian)
Replies: 486
Views: 115093

Re: Khmer lessons related questions

Oh, nice thread. Uhm, I have a question that might sound a bit strange. If you write Khmer in Latin letters (because you either can't write in Khmer script or don't have Khmer keyboard), are there any rules? For example, I always end up writing words completely different than I see them written by ...