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Talk Now! Learn Khmer - Beginning Level [Old Version]

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This item is really a waste of money. For 20 or 30 dollars you get a vocabulary of at most 100 words. Want to learn some more? Then you must shell out another 20 or 30 for the "intermediate" one, and so on. As Amazon discreetly omits any description of the product on its web site, I got the impression it was a language course, because it said "beginning level". But it turns out that it's more like a phrasebook. There's no grammar, no explanations, just a bunch of phrases and words to learn. This is by no stretch of the imagination "learning" a language. The most insidious thing about it is that they could have crammed all the 3 levels onto one CD, but that would have damaged their profits. Is this one of the blessings of the free-enterprise system we hear so much about? There are 2 books for actually learning Khmer that have a CD or cassette. I'm going to get one of those.



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This is a nice program that shows you pictures and pronounces the words. And has quiz games where you match one of a choice of pictures to the word sounds. The games are very helpful in developing recognition of spoken Khmer words.

Since Khmer is so different from English, you can not learn Khmer from a book alone. You need something that will pronounce the words so that you can hear the sounds. I had some of my Cambodina friends listen to it and they said the pronouncenations were good.

I recommend this for the absolute beginner of Khmer.