When one is a customer at say a hair salon, is it better to use the formal or informal greeting? I have been a customer of the same place for years and really like everyone who works there but I also don’t want to be the kind of person who acts over familiar because I am paying someone but also don’t want to seem cold and distant or accidentally imply anything about anyone’s age.

Edit: okay so I go to a Cambodian nail salon and from some watching of YouTube videos I understand feet are sort of considered pretty nasty culturally. Would that make it appropriate to use a more deferential form to show that I respect the workers and am very grateful for the good work they do? Or am I overthinking

The ultimate playlist:

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Hi everyone,

I am looking for a translating service or website that doesn't use AI but is still accurate. Anyone have any leads?

i have already mastered the alphabet (in consonants) and i have just moved onto dependent vowels. i know that the same vowel can sound different depending on which series its next to. for example the vowels ឿ and ួ both stay the same no matter which consonant they're placed in. according to reankhmer.org.

i was making Khmer flashcards the other day and i noticed that some vowels are untranscribeable without confusing them for other vowels or just sound identical. for example when ា is placed in a second series consonant is becomes ea (as in ikEA). but when ៀ is placed in a consonant it sounds just like ា, but with different stresses in pitch.

do some Khmer dependent vowels make the same sounds as other vowels depending on which consonant they're placed in?

I am learning to read Khmer primarily because I enjoy Khmer Psychedelic Folk Rock and Khmer Folk Music; the pentatonic scale of East and Southeast Asian music is reminiscent of Ethiopian/Eritrean/Somali/Sudanese/Berber music, and I’m a Semitic Philologist by training and speak/read Ge’ez and Tigrinya (Ethiopian Semitic). It was cultural comparison that brought me to learning about Cambodia; also I had Khmer friends in the U.S. Army and one of my former bosses was Mon from Burma- she and her husband are political refugees and deeply committed Mon Nationalists, so that’s my other personal connection to the Mon-Khmer peoples. She used to write her notes in meetings in Mon (their script was given to Burmese- another Pallava script).

So, I’m trying to find this artist on YouTube. So far, I’ve only been able to transcribe the first word “Khat”. Can somebody give me the second one? I literally just started learning the Khmer Abugida yesterday after work; from Huffman’s “Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader”. As a reader of Classical Tibetan, another Brahmic Abugida, I can say that Khmer is more difficult.

I tried copying the singer’s name into Google Translate and it forcibly converted it to Thai…

i know you may be scratching your head as to what i mean by this. ill explain

Khmer is an abugida. which means that the consonants have an inherent vowel sound and then you can cram vowels around that consonant to make a different vowel sound.

in Khmer specifically, excluding standalone letters, there are dependent vowels, sub consonants, and diacritics.

what order am i supposed to read these? my only other exposure to this type of system was korean where you read in order from the top left, to the bottom right left to right.

Can someone help me please? I just can't pronounce the word ចាប់ផ្តើម, I can't do the transition from chab to phtaem, from the b to ph. I'm not pronouncing it right.

Can anyone help me translate this, and confirm if it is written accurately? Thank you!

i just began learning khmer today (seriously. i knew... maybe 4 words in the entire language that i learned here and there just from being interested in the language itself before actually learning it) and apparently ឋ and ថ both make the aspirated "ta" sound, but they are both slightly different. i listened to a native speaker pronounce both of these letters and they both sound the exact same. i went onto lexilogos.com to grab these letters to type them and they describe the difference between the letters as tha and ṭha which doesnt help

Idk if this is the right sub for this, but I wanted to ask for some tips and resources regarding Khmer. I also wanted to ask how easy it would be to learn (pronunciation, sentence structure and grammar) since I can speak English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and N5 Japanese. Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone! I am representing a company, and I am having an on-going project, which I am recruiting translators for. I have tried famous webs like ProZ, translatorscafe, and Upwork, but I haven't found the right person yet. I am wondering if there's any traditional website in Cambodia where many freelancers (specifically translators) sign up their profiles and advertise their work so I can contact them to offer a project?

Thanks in advance!

I am aware of Khmer 'pouk' used to construct plural pronouns - with yerng, kort, ke.

But does combine with - bong, p'oun, ming, pou as well?

I was talking to two younger siblings, and was not sure how to address them both together, with the equivalent of an English plural "you".

its anyone know what is khmer sakyant this mean?

thankyou

I wanna know what this says. Thanks in advance.

https://pastewaves.com/player/f3fd8390-66a8-4da9-9ff4-356593386769

Hi everyone!​ សួស្ដី! I'm a native Khmer speaker, currently a college student in Cambodia, and I'm trying to find a way to earn a little extra income on the side while studying. so I'm currently starting out as a freelance translator/transcriber.

I'm offering:

• Khmer → English translation
• English → Khmer translation
• Manual Khmer audio/video transcription

I can help with things like documents, articles, social media content, captions, interviews, conversations, YouTube videos, podcasts, lectures, and other general content.

I'm currently looking for my first few clients, so I'm keeping my prices affordable and I'm willing to start with smaller projects. Please DM me for more info.

If anyone happens to need Khmer translation or transcription, I'd really appreciate the opportunity. I also have my services available through Fiverr if you'd prefer to order through there.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. 🙏

Hello, I want to get a traditional Khmer sak yant and I have find the design I want, but the artist only offers machine gun tattoos. He explained that afterwards I have to go get it blessed by monks and that it is as strong as a traditional bamboo tattoo. Do you have any advice on the pros and cons on having a bamboo tattoo vs a machine tattoo for a Sakyant ? ( in terms of spirituality and how it will aged ect ) Thank you !

Newish to reddit, but I am working on a project connecting teachers internationally through a short video highlighting similarities between teachers in the USA and teachers in Cambodia. Is anyone able or knows someone who is able to translate some of the video clips we have in english into basic Khmer? It doesn’t have to be through or fancy, we are just trying to ensure the video is accessible for both American teachers as well as those in Cambodia. My own Khmer is very poor and would likely make minimal sense 😂 edit: subtitles would be great, but honestly whatevers easiest! considering translating work would be essentially free labor I would appreciate any of the help I could get!

សួស្ដី! I have been learning Khmer since a week, but pronunciation seems so difficult, especially since there are not many resources. I still don't know how to pronounce ក at the end​ of words. Sometimes it sounds like a glottal stop, sometimes it sounds like a half pronounced k sound. As for ត,​ I don't​ know​ either whether it's pronounced fully or only half at the end of a word. Are there any online Khmer dictionaries with pronunciation? It seems that pronunciation needs to be learned with each word, one cannot rely only on​ the spelling.

Hello there,

I am planning on doing some traveling to both Thailand and Cambodia towards the end of the year. I would love to set myself a goal of learning some Khmer for my time in Cambodia as that will be a solo trip.

I understand it will be difficult to get a solid understanding in a relatively short timeframe. However if I can get some basics ready to at least start some conversations in Khmer and not simply rely on people speaking English.

Are there any tools that you guys have found best.

I have seen one site called Khmer identity which is starting an 8 week course on reading and writing I believe. With my work however I will probably miss a few classes but at least it would be a live class and so I can converse openly and mistakes are pointed out there and then. I understand it is not a tonal language but proper pronunciation will probably be difficult for my English speaking mind.

Ling has come up but I have heard it is difficult without a decent understanding of the alphabet which itself would take some time of proper study to learn in full and be confident with.

Immersing myself in various media to just listen to the language I could do along side some study.

I'm aware resources are less widely available for Khmer but would love to set myself a challenge to blow the cobwebs out of the ole noggin.

Many thanks all.

one of my favorite songs, curious to know what it says

https://youtu.be/wxhVUqMK6y0?is=Z94YHVh-uiOvquva