I have answered based on rent alone, but I don't really think of it in terms of just rent. My electricity bill can be almost as high as my rent, so when budgeting, I think of the two as one single expense. dam, either really cheap rent and 5 air cons, 5 fridges++ running 24/7 OR VERY high rent and ...

You'll probably find something, but as a non-native, depending on your standard of English, you'd have to be realistic about your salary expectations. Even more so if all you have is a dodgy TEFL certificate from some cheap, random course you did online. Cambodia is no different to anywhere else. Ma...

I have answered based on rent alone, but I don't really think of it in terms of just rent. My electricity bill can be almost as high as my rent, so when budgeting, I think of the two as one single expense.

This site also doesn't play well with Safari. Not on my device anyway. Not sure if it's the site's fault or Safari. When I click 'submit', especially if I'm starting a new topic, it takes forever to post, and sometimes I end up with just a 'Safari cannot load this page' message. Then when I click ba...

A couple of things I worked out pretty quickly is that consonants seem to fall into two categories. Those that end with an ' awww ' sound and those that end with an ' owe / oh' sound. These Oh and awe sounds are only used when reading the alphabet, and they do indeed have a function to distinguish ...

I've lived here now for coming up to eight years, and I was thinking the other day that - it's a little hard to explain this but I'll try my best - I would have expected my life in Cambodia to feel more 'normal' by now than it actually feels. When I'm at home with friends (Khmer or foreign) or just ...

Just had my first one-to-one, which went fairly well. I might use this thread to document my journey if that's ok with the mods. I know that some of the users here can speak Khmer fairly well, and have already been through what I'm going through so it would be good to have a place to get some feedba...

As a former English teacher, you would have noticed that those students that regularly watched English TV programs (maybe, just Cartoon Network) had the best 'listening', 'comprehension' and 'speaking' skills. Youtube has plenty of Khmer language lessons as well as TV programs to watch. As far as T...

https://seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Default.htm i think this one is good for self study. I learned Khmer letters with it but it also has daily conversation topics (from my experience letters is really worth to study, helped me to find many words that i pronounced incorrectly for years) I also have those ...

Not sure if this has been mentioned before - I haven't read the whole thread - but while most people are correct by blaming A/C for high energy bills, fridges can also be just as much a culprit, especially older ones. My electricity bill is extremely high, about three or four times as much as it sho...