UPDATE: January 31, 2010. Please read before ordering!
Both Beginning and Heritage Textbooks are in stock and ready to be shipped. The price of (UPS Ground) shipping in the continental US is included in the price of each Textbook. I'm in the US from now until the end of April, 2010.

If you are located in Cambodia or Thailand, note that I will be in Phnom Penh very briefly during the week of March 20-27, and again in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in early May, 2010 and Bangkok from mid-late May, so if you order a textbook between now and late April I will deliver it to you in one of those locations with no shipping charge. To ensure getting a book, however, you should order no later than March 15 for March delivery (Phnom Penh only!) and April 25 for May delivery (Phnom Penh and Bangkok).

Folks who live anywhere else in the world (Canada, Europe, Australia, etc.) should contact me by e-mail before you order a book, so I can tell you how much you need to pay for shipping. International shipping will be done by US Postal Service, and I will split the cost of shipping 50/50 with you. E-mail me for details).

This section of studykhmer.com provides samples of and an opportunity to purchase Khmer textbooks written by Frank Smith: Kamlang Phiasaa, an upper level Khmer textbook aimed primarily at Heritage students (but also suitable for non-native speakers) at the Intermediate and Advanced level (2006), and Muk Khmae, a Beginning textbook for non-native speakers (2007).

These textbooks are based on 12 summers worth of my experience teaching in and designing the Khmer language program at SEASSI. These are also the textbooks used in teaching Khmer at the University of California-Berkeley. They form a multimedia foundation for communicative, content-based classroom activities by which to learn Khmer language. The various ways of presenting information in these books, the choice of vocabulary and phrases, and the explanations have evolved over the years in response to student requests and teacher perceptions of student needs.

Each book features over 350 pages of color text and images, and each comes with a DVD-ROM containing video, audio and other files which supplement the material in the textbooks. They're available for $70 each (including the DVD), only from this website. UPS Ground shipping to the Continental US is included in the price of purchase.

To see (and hear) samples of material from the textbooks, and to purchase them by either credit card or PayPal using a secure shopping cart, select one of the textbook icons above. You'll need the free Adobe Flash Player to view the video samples; there's a link to it below.

Note that while the "shopping cart" you'll be directed to when you click on one of the "Add to Cart" buttons is run by PayPal, and they do their best to get you to pay using PayPal, if you want to use a major credit card to purchase textbooks you can do that too...just choose the "Proceed to Checkout" option when you're asked to sign in to your PayPal account (unless of course you do want to use PayPal), and you'll be directed to a secure page where you can enter your credit card information.

The many hours that go into producing these Khmer Textbooks, as well as all features on studykhmer.com, take place during my free time. Besides the income I get from selling the textbooks, this site is essentially a labor of love. My many hours of work on this site are not compensated by anyone...if you feel so moved, donations are always appreciated!

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