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| mike245 Triglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6972 days ago 303 posts - 408 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Cantonese Studies: French, German, Mandarin, Khmer | Message 57 of 89 15 June 2013 at 9:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks! I'll see if I can get a copy of Colloquial Cambodian next time I am in the
States. My parents are ethnically Chinese but born and raised in Cambodia. They came to the US as refugees after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, so I was born and raised in the US. I actually can understand and speak some "family/kitchen/baby" Khmer, but not fluently. It's funny because I do notice there are some words my family uses in Khmer that sound like English/French; I am not sure if they are real Khmer words or just immigrant code-switching since my parents have been in the US for so long. It sounds like they may be real Khmer loanwords! I am having a lot of fun learning Cantonese. I imagine it'll be easy for you after you learn Mandarin, so it's definitely worth adding to the hit list, even though it is much less "useful" than Mandarin is. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 58 of 89 15 June 2013 at 11:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah there are certainly a lot of loan words taken from English/French! I struggled to put Mandarin before
Cantonese because I just love how Cantonese sounds, but I finally settled on Mandarin first because I think it would be easier to break into a tonal language and also because of the huge amount of resources in comparison to Cantonese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 59 of 89 17 June 2013 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
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17/6/13 - Lesson 24 of CME is done, and I also managed to stick to my goal of watching at least 30 minutes of
Chinese TV every day. I am now just over 800 characters, and my anki deck hit 2000 words a few days ago. I find that anki reviews are taking up a significant amount of my time, but for now I am ok with that. I am going very slowly through the CME books as I focus on listening and building up my vocabulary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 60 of 89 25 June 2013 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||
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25/6/13 - Lesson 27 of CME done. Continuing to watch Chinese TV. Also trying to spend some time listening to
podcasts to help improve my listening. Still waiting for my DVDs to arrive from China so I can watch some stuff that I know! For vocabulary I am using the new words from the CME book, and then words from the HSK2 vocab list. Actually learnt a couple of new Khmer words this week as well which is cool. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 61 of 89 04 July 2013 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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4/7/13 - Lesson 28 of CME done. Just over 900 characters learnt now. The big 1500 character poster I bought and
stuck on my wall is filling up nicely! Hope to hit 1000 characters in the next couple of weeks which will be a substantial milestone for me. My anki deck for vocab is at around 2200 words. I have access to a lot of vocab through the HSK list, but it also has its drawbacks I think because there are so many similar words that I don't really know when it is appropriate to use each one yet, and as it is done in alphabetical order I find myself learning 7 words starting with fang1, then a few with fang2 etc, and so it can be a little bit confusing. Still need to increase my listening, as i'm hoping that more listening will help me have a better level of retention and understanding of the new vocab I am learning (once I actually understand more of what I am listening to at least)! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 62 of 89 12 July 2013 at 3:40am | IP Logged | ||
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12/7/13 - Lesson 29 of CME done. Bit behind on my Anki this week, going to try and catch up today and
tomorrow. Not got much done in the area of Chinese this week, however there are some Chinese guys here in Cambodia for a couple of days and so yesterday I spent half an hour chatting with them. I couldn't understand everything but I got the general gist of a lot of what they said, and I was able to say quite a lot of what I wanted to get across, although it was slow and frustrating at times! This week has been a great one for Khmer. I have found a lexicon of some new economic and business words that have just been released which is great. On top of that I am writing a book to try and improve the language program for foreign staff who come to Cambodia to work with us. I have no experience in this area but it's really exciting and I am enjoying it. Today I will be recording some audio with some native speakers. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4520 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin | Message 63 of 89 19 July 2013 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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19/7/13 - Lesson 31 of CME done. Anki all up to date. Hit the 1000 character mark which is a milestone. In
some ways I am finding that learning characters is becoming easier, but in others it is harder. I find that there are now lots of similar characters, so often if I am writing one I will miss a dot here or a line there. I'm sure this will improve through time and repetition. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4666 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 64 of 89 19 July 2013 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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