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With Khmer courses ranging from an intensive one-to-one Khmer course at our London training centre to an in-company Khmer course at your offices, Communicaid is ideally placed to meet your Khmer language course needs. With training centres in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York providing countrywide coverage and partner organisations worldwide, Communicaid is uniquely placed to be your local, national and international training partner for Khmer courses.
Why a Khmer course in London? Our Khmer courses are highly personalised and designed to improve your Khmer communication skills, whether your focus is social, business, financial, diplomatic or legal. Upon completion of a Khmer course with Communicaid here in London, you will have the confidence to communicate in Khmer with colleagues, clients and suppliers.
Location: In addition to our Khmer courses in London, we are also able to provide Khmer language training courses worldwide via our training centres and global partners.
Benefits
A Communicaid Khmer course will provide you with the ability to:
- Speak Khmer with confidence
- Interact more confidently when visiting a Khmer-speaking region or when dealing with
Khmer speakers
- Build rapport and strengthen relationships with Khmer-speaking colleagues and counterparts
through a show of interest in the Khmer language and culture
- Demonstrate good will and facilitate international communication at both a personal and
organisational level
Who should attend
A Communicaid Khmer course is suitable for:
- Anyone planning to relocate to a Khmer-speaking region and wishing to attend a Khmer
course in order to prepare in advance for their assignment
- Business professionals conducting business regularly with Khmer speakers who wish to build
rapport and strengthen relationships by attending a Khmer course
- Government and non-governmental agency representatives working in Cambodia or a
Khmer-speaking region who need to be able to communicate at all levels
Course content
The content and format of your Khmer course will depend on your profession, proficiency in Khmer and objectives. Whether beginner, survival, intermediate or advanced, key areas covered in all our Khmer courses include:
- Spoken fluency
- Listening skills
- Pronunciation and accent
- Reading skills
- Telephone skills in Khmer
- Email skills in Khmer
- Sector-specific terminology
- Presentation & negotiation skills Approach
Communicaid’s Khmer courses are available seven days a week, 365 days a year. Training takes place between 08:00 and 20:00 although courses are also available outside of these hours upon request.
Suitable tailored and published Khmer course materials will be used throughout, with recommendations on self-study material and extra reading made at the beginning and during your Khmer course.
We offer a variety of training formats for your Khmer course – from intensive, weeklong courses to extensive, modular lessons. Appropriate formats will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy (please click here to read more about our approach).
Khmer course trainer
All Communicaid Khmer trainers are native speakers with at least 3 years’ professional Khmer training experience. In addition to relevant academic and linguistic qualifications and experience, many of our Khmer trainers also possess considerable exposure and expertise in the professional world.
Your Khmer trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus. Detailed below is a sample profile of a member of our Khmer training team.
TN
Of Cambodian origin, TN relocated to the UK after fleeing the Khmer Rouge regime in 1978. TN’s experience of teaching the Khmer language dates back to a teaching post at a private college in Cambodia shortly after graduating. Subsequently, TN worked for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as a teacher of the Khmer language and French.
On arriving in the UK, TN joined the British Refugee Council at a supervisor level and later served as a Housing Office for the London Borough of Islington. TN returned to teaching when he became the Education co-ordinator and Khmer language trainer at the Community Centre for Refugees from Vietnam-Laos and Cambodia in Hackney, London. For Communicaid, TN has successfully delivered Khmer language courses for delegates from the public sector.
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– Facts about the Khmer language |
Khmer also commonly known as the Cambodian language is the official language of Cambodia. Outside of Cambodia, Khmer is spoken as either a first or second language by sizeable populations in Vietnam, Thailand, China as well as in smaller communities in the United States and France. Estimates of number of speakers vary greatly from between 15 and 21 million.
Khmer belongs to the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family. It is most closely related to its fellow Austro-Asiatic languages but significant influence from Sanskrit and Pali can be traced back to their Buddhist and Hindu roots. Moreover, due to their close proximity, features of Thai and Laotian have also had an influence on the Khmer language. Within Khmer itself, there are some very distinct dialects. Marked differences can be found between the speech from the area around the capital city of Phnom Penh, the rural Battambang area, the Cardamom Mountains and neighbouring Thailand. Standard Khmer is based on the Phnom Penh dialect.
Khmer script ultimately derives from the ancient Brahmi script from India and resembles the Thai and Lao alphabets. Khmer does not use space to separate words. Rather the use of spaces is used to denote the end of a clause or sentence. There are 33 consonants and 24 vowels in the Khmer alphabet.
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