I would highly recommend taking language lessons with Khmer Friends. My tutor, Chantha, was very professional and effective in his instruction. I took two hours of lessons a week using Skype since i was several hours away from Phnom Penh. I am deeply grateful for the wonderful lessons and tutoring that Khmer Friends provides.

I am so thankful for the past five weeks of language lessons at Khmer Friends. The staff was kind, understanding, and very helpful. In just a few short classes, I learned so much and have been able to use a lot of what I learned during my time here in Cambodia. This is a great, affordable option for anyone who needs to pick up some of this challenging language and have fun doing it!

I loved their flexibility. Khmer Friends are very flexible, I remember there was a time I had a very crazy work schedule and they helped to work around it and still get the best out of the Khmer classes. What’s more, my tutor, Chantrea, she was very keen on pronunciation which has really has gone a long way in improving my Khmer and my confidence in communicating in Khmer.

Khmer friends gave me a teacher that was not competent to answer the more technical questions, and also had a very nasally voice that made it difficult to hear the differences in some of the sounds. In here written phonetics she wrote words incorrectly that made it impossible to link back to the Khmer alphabet. The initial stages you can do by yourself with a translator and some discipline. The teacher does not add much value. (more…)

One of the best things I did in Cambodia was to take a couple of lessons here per week. Over the year I came to be able to understand and communicate in Khmer, and even read and write it! But more than the language, it was the deep cross-cultural connections with the people that it allowed me to make. I am so grateful to Khmer Friends!