This online interactive theme-based open textbook is for beginner learners of the Khmer language. This book aims to provide a practical introduction to speaking, listening, and reading. By the end of this course, students will be at the B1 level of the Common Framework for Language and at the low intermediate level on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency scales. Basic Khmer is funded by the Open Educational Resources Program at Michigan State University.
Author(s): Vathanak Sok
Publisher: Michigan State University
Year: 2022
Contents
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter I: What is your name?
1.1 Informal Conversation
1.2 Formal Conversation
1.3 The First 16 Consonants
1.4 The Question Words for "What and Where"
1.5 Key Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Chapter II: What is your job?
2.1 Review from Chapter I
2.2 Conversation: I am a teacher.
2.3 Subject Pronouns with Verb "To be" in Khmer
2.4 Negative Formers: ɔt...dtee" and "mən...dtee"
2.5 Conversation: Addressing People in Cambodia
2.6 Combination of Consonants and Combination of Consonants with Diacritic “់”
2.7 Tell us more about yourself.
2.8 Key Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Chapter III: I have one sibling.
3.1 Review from Chapter II
3.2 Khmer Numbers 1–100
3.3 The First and Second Series of Consonants
3.4 Family Relationships
3.5 Conversation: How many siblings do you have?
3.6 Question Word: Bpon-maan “How many?”
3.7 Introduction to Khmer Vowels
3.8 Possessive Adjective and Apostrophe + "s" ('s)
3.9 Key Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Chapter IV: What time is it?
4.1 Review from Chapter III
4.2 What time is it in Phnom Penh?
4.3 The Abbreviations "a.m." and "p.m." in Khmer
4.4 Conversation: What time does your Khmer class start?
4.5 Vowel Symbols: ា/ ាំ/ោ/ៅ
4.6 Conversation: What is your phone number?
4.7 Vowel Symbols: ី/ ី/ ឹ/ ឺ
4.8 The Combination of Consonants and Vowels
4.9 Key vocabulary and useful expressions
Chapter V: I was born in 1985.
5.1 Review from Chapter IV
5.2 Time and Date
5.3 Do you know?
5.4 Vowel Symbols: ៀ/ ឿ/ េះ/ ោះ
5.5 Numbers 100–1,000,000
5.6 Vowel Symbols: ំ/ ុំ/ ះ/ ុះ
5.7 Key Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Chapter VI: I went to Cambodia last year.
6.1 Review from Chapter V
6.2 Time Expressions
6.3 Conversation: I taught Khmer in the U.S.
6.4 The Demonstrative Adjective Nih "This"
6.5 Vowel Sounds with First and Second Series
6.6 Key Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Chapter VII: I want to be a teacher.
7.1 Review from Chapter VI
7.2 Conversation: I want to be a teacher too.
7.3 Sub-Consonants
7.4 Conversation: I do not like this job very much.
7.5 When I was a child. . .
7.6 "Used to" + Infinitive
7.7 Key Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Chapter VIII: Can I meet him today?
8.1 Review from Chapter VII
8.2 Conversation: He is available this afternoon.
8.3 Conjunctions in Khmer: ហើយ “and” ប៉ុន្តែ “but” and អ៊ីចឹង “so”
8.4 Conversation: Can I speak to Mr. Saan?
8.5 The Diacritics “ ៊” and “ ៉”
8.6 Making Appointments with a Government Official
8.7 Key Vocabulary and Useful Expressions
Appendix I: Translation of Conversations and Audio Scripts
