IMPORTANT: Please Read Before Ordering!

Good news: I've relocated to the United States from Thailand; specifically, Berkeley, California. That means that from now on all books mailed within the United States will go US Postal Service Media Rate, the cost of which I will cover myself. So the price of either textbook is $60 US. That includes everything: textbook, Course DVD, shipping.

However: as of right now (6/22/08), I'm running low on Beginning Textbooks, I won't be able to print new ones until September, and I have to make sure I have enough for my Beginning Khmer students this August at UC-Berkeley (that's why I'm moving back to the US, I got a new job teaching Khmer there!). So I'm afraid I can't ship any Beginning Textbook orders to non-UC-Berkeley students until I know how many students I'll have so I make sure I have enough books, or late September 2008 when I print more, whichever comes first.

So, from now (6/22//08) until 8/27/08, no Beginning textbooks will be shipped. You can still order Beginning books from this website, as long as you understand that you're going to have to wait a bit to receive them (books will be sent out in the order that the orders are received,,,so if I find out I have two books left before September, for example, and two people order books in June and July, those folks will get them, and everyone else who puts in orders later in July/August will have to wait until September). So if you order a Beginning book from now until August 27, 2008, the earliest that I will mail it to you is August 28. The latest I will mail it to you is late September. Make sense? Note that none of what I'm saying here applies to Heritage (Intermediate/Advanced) Textbooks: I have plenty of those (for now), so go ahead and order them and they'll be mailed right out to you.

Also note that if you live in Thailand or Cambodia and want to buy books, I am traveling to both those places in December 2008/January 2009, so if you order your books anytime between now and then I'll bring them with me and hand-deliver them to you (or mail them locally if you're somewhere else in Thailand besides Bangkok).

Folks who live anywhere else in the world should contact me by e-mail before you order a book, so I can tell you how much you need to pay for shipping. I will cover half of whatever the shipping cost is outside of the US (except to Thailand and Cambodia, since I can hand-deliver them to you there this winter for free...if you're in a hurry to get a book in those two countries, you'll need to pay the entire shipping cost yourself. 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 $60 each (including the DVD), only from this website.

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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