This video can be a spoof of the Audio-lingual Method (ALM). In ALM, students are supposed to repeat after the teacher at no cost. Students should not question what they are going to repeat. The focus is to get the right pronunciation and sound.

Mind your language “You are”

Dr Nancy Hornberger from the University of Pennsylvania is a strong advocate of multilingual literacy. She has been working with various groups around the world to promote multilingual literacy as an effort to revitalize indigenous languages that are being swallowed by mainstream languages.

This is a case in Cambodia which an average educator is not aware of. Indigenous languages are going on a journey of extinction and we need a team like this in the video to help revitalize them. As a language educator, I don’t want any indigenous language in Cambodia to disappear.

Multilingual literacy in Punong communities, Mondulkiri, Cambodia

Link to an article of Cambodia Daily about this fascinating work.

http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily/selected_features/cd-May-30-2007.htm

This gives you a broader understanding about multilingual literacy in Asia concerning indigenous groups. This document is titled “Mother tongue-based literacy programs: Good practice in Asia” by UNESCO

http://www2.unescobkk.org/elib/publications/113/mother-tonque-based.pdf

A Khmer vowel can be pronounced in two ways: weak and strong. The weak form OR is presented in this case. Enjoy.

A Khmer vowel can be pronounced in two ways: weak and strong. This case is presented to illustrate strong sound of Khmer vowels.

Lesson 1: “Hello! My name is ___.”

Lesson 2: “I am from ___.”

Lesson 3: Khmer pronouns

Lesson 4: “What is your nationality?”

Lesson 5: Khmer numbers

Lesson 6: “How are you?” “I am

fine.”

Lesson 7: “What do you do?”

This is not likely to be of interest to Khmer learners but linguists interested in Khmer vernacular varieties. The video explains the use of R final sound in Khmer Surin.