Language Professor Contributes to Khmer Culture, with Dictionaries, Aids, and Glossaries
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:57 pm
RUPP prof makes it his mission to build better dictionary
Huon Silaun | Publication date 05 December 2022 | 21:47 ICT
Ken Rangsey, a professor at the Department of Khmer Literature at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), has come to prominence as one of the foremost experts on the finer details of the Khmer language.
Hailing from Preah Bat Choan Chum commune’s Kampong village of Takeo province’s Kirivong district, the 38-year-old has a way with words, one might say, but it’s not what you’re thinking it is.
Rangsey doesn’t write romantic poetry or eloquent essays. He writes textbooks and books about the individual words as part of his academic work.
After graduating from Tonleab High School in 2002, Rangsey earned a Bachelor’s degree in Khmer literature from RUPP in 2007. He was then hired by his alma mater to teach the subject while also teaching art history at the National Institute of Education (NIE).
Despite working full time and teaching at two different schools, Rangsey went on to earn his Master’s degree in linguistics from RUPP in 2009, which was what got him interested in the sort of work he’s known for doing today.
From 2015-2018, Rangsey lived in the Yunnan province of China and taught Khmer at the Yunnan Minzu University. He enjoyed the experience greatly and found it refreshing to be teaching students for whom Khmer wasn’t a first language. The students must have enjoyed the class as well because he won the “Outstanding Foreign Faculty” award at the university that year.
He then returned to China again for another Khmer language teaching stint at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies from 2020 up until his recent return to the Kingdom.
Rangsey’s textbooks and guidebooks on the Khmer language include the Glossary of Khmer Vocabulary published in 2014 and the Dictionary of Khmer Nouns Parts One, Two and Three published in 2017/18/19.
After taking a break for a year, in 2021 he published the Dictionary of Khmer Nouns Part Four while also authoring the Glossary of Khmer Adjectives and Adverbs. Just this year in 2022 he published another work called the Glossary of Khmer Synonyms, written with a co-author.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... dictionary
Huon Silaun | Publication date 05 December 2022 | 21:47 ICT
Ken Rangsey, a professor at the Department of Khmer Literature at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), has come to prominence as one of the foremost experts on the finer details of the Khmer language.
Hailing from Preah Bat Choan Chum commune’s Kampong village of Takeo province’s Kirivong district, the 38-year-old has a way with words, one might say, but it’s not what you’re thinking it is.
Rangsey doesn’t write romantic poetry or eloquent essays. He writes textbooks and books about the individual words as part of his academic work.
After graduating from Tonleab High School in 2002, Rangsey earned a Bachelor’s degree in Khmer literature from RUPP in 2007. He was then hired by his alma mater to teach the subject while also teaching art history at the National Institute of Education (NIE).
Despite working full time and teaching at two different schools, Rangsey went on to earn his Master’s degree in linguistics from RUPP in 2009, which was what got him interested in the sort of work he’s known for doing today.
From 2015-2018, Rangsey lived in the Yunnan province of China and taught Khmer at the Yunnan Minzu University. He enjoyed the experience greatly and found it refreshing to be teaching students for whom Khmer wasn’t a first language. The students must have enjoyed the class as well because he won the “Outstanding Foreign Faculty” award at the university that year.
He then returned to China again for another Khmer language teaching stint at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies from 2020 up until his recent return to the Kingdom.
Rangsey’s textbooks and guidebooks on the Khmer language include the Glossary of Khmer Vocabulary published in 2014 and the Dictionary of Khmer Nouns Parts One, Two and Three published in 2017/18/19.
After taking a break for a year, in 2021 he published the Dictionary of Khmer Nouns Part Four while also authoring the Glossary of Khmer Adjectives and Adverbs. Just this year in 2022 he published another work called the Glossary of Khmer Synonyms, written with a co-author.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... dictionary