js6426 Diglot Senior Member Cambodia Joined 4521 days ago 277 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English*, Khmer Studies: Mandarin
| Message 41 of 61 06 January 2014 at 4:02pm | IP Logged |
Indíritheach wrote:
js6426 wrote:
Indíritheach wrote:
Wow, thanks so much for the recommendations
js6426 and viedums! I downloaded the
Khmerlive.tv app for my Galaxy, so cool! I am very excited. And as for outdated language, thanks for the heads-up,
hopefully my native-speaker friend will be able to warn me when I sound too old-fashioned. I am a bit confused
though...I definitely want to get started reading and writing ASAP, but are you suggesting I follow the presentation
of the script as it is laid out in Colloquial Cambodian or is there some better way to learn it? |
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I have actually compiled a resource for learning to read and write Cambodian that has native audio with it. I could
email it to you if you want. Of course I would only ask that you don't copy it/upload it/send it to anybody else
without my permission. Then I would ask that you would give me feedback on how you found it and if there is any
area you see I could improve, and how it compares to what you learn as you go through CQ. |
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I would be honored to take a look at your resource. I never imagined I would get so much support learning a
language like Cambodian...I am really grateful and humbled. Colloquial Cambodian should be arriving at some
point today, and I've been listening to/watching Cambodian TV and radio to get an idea of the sound the language.
It's really unique...it doesn't sound like anything I've studied thus far! |
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I love Khmer, and it makes me happy to see other people wanting to learn it too! PM me your email address and I
will send you the reading/writing resource and the accompanying audio tomorrow (it's late here now)!
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doubleUelle Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4036 days ago 67 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Japanese Studies: Spanish, Thai
| Message 42 of 61 09 January 2014 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
Hey everyone, I'm back from my vacation!
I've started putting together a "resources" post (see the 2nd post in the thread), which
I will be adding to as time goes on.
Just want to add, among other things, that I'm really glad/impressed about how much love
Khmer is getting in this thread :) It's always fun (at least for me, as a language nerd)
to see people taking interested in less common languages.
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Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5131 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer
| Message 43 of 61 09 January 2014 at 9:15am | IP Logged |
I knew I couldn't resist... If you still accept new members, I'd like to sign up with Thai. I've been learning for a few years already. My goal is simple: I'd like to improve. My log can be found here.
doubleUelle wrote:
I've started putting together a "resources" post (see the 2nd post in the thread), which I will be adding to as time goes on. |
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I've seen the resources at the beginning of this thread and like the idea! Here are a few more resources for Thai:
Two longdo dictionaries: here and here (not sure what the difference is, both are good and almost identical)
An excellent dictionary and website (with lots of other stuff to explore): thai-language.com
The monolingual Royal Institute Dictionary, which is integrated into the longdo dictionaries above as well
Australia's SBS Thai podcast
GLOSS has a few Thai lessons
VoA news articles (recordings and transcripts) on selfstudythai.com
Spoken Thai with transcripts on thairecordings.com (shameless plug for my own project)
And the mother of all free Thai resources: WLT
Edited by Bakunin on 09 January 2014 at 9:15am
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viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4667 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese
| Message 44 of 61 09 January 2014 at 2:59pm | IP Logged |
Nice to see you here, Bakunin. I like longdo as well, and thai-language.com is an interesting project, something I've also been meaning to explore.
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tlanguell Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4040 days ago 24 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese
| Message 45 of 61 09 January 2014 at 3:45pm | IP Logged |
If anyone is interested in learning the Isan dialect of Lao that's spoken in Thailand's
Northeast (Isan) I can recommend the book by Asger Mollerup. It's pretty accurate about
the difference between Thai and Lao and even within Isan. I can speak some of the Isan
dialect and for those traveling within Isan and into Laos it really does help.
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tlanguell Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4040 days ago 24 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese
| Message 46 of 61 09 January 2014 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
I want to learn the Thai script any recommendations for online resources?
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doubleUelle Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4036 days ago 67 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Japanese Studies: Spanish, Thai
| Message 47 of 61 09 January 2014 at 6:26pm | IP Logged |
A bit of comedy (anyone learning a tonal language will appreciate this):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGQVJde2obA
tlanguell wrote:
I want to learn the Thai script any recommendations for online
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The thai2english software program has a lot of info about Thai
writing/script, including info about tones etc. I learned the Thai script gradually via
the Teach Yourself Thai course.
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viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4667 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese
| Message 48 of 61 12 January 2014 at 4:04am | IP Logged |
Neat video, doubleUelle!
Craig Lillard is right, Vietnamese is pretty whacked-out. Funny though, he would probably be pretty good at it - a talent for mimicry must help.
This can remind us that speaking a foreign language is all about performance.
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