Sam and Kara Snyder, a couple from Buffalo, New York, left, and Autumn West, right, from Greenback, Tennessee, sing Cambodian and American national anthems during a swearing-in ceremony of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers in the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, April 4, 2007 as they mark official start of the corps' first volunteer program in this impoverished Southeast Asian nation. Over the next two years, 28 U.S. volunteers will be stationed across seven Cambodian provinces teaching English to rural schoolchildren. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
U.S. Peace Corps volunteers applaud during a swearing-in ceremony in the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, April 4, 2007 as they mark official start of the corps' first volunteer program in this impoverished Southeast Asian nation. Over the next two years, 28 U.S. volunteers will be stationed across seven Cambodian provinces teaching English to rural schoolchildren. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
U.S. Peace Corps volunteers group pay respect to their national anthem during a swearing-in ceremony in the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, April 4, 2007 as they mark official start of the corps' first volunteer program in this impoverished Southeast Asian nation. Over the next two years, 28 U.S. volunteers will be stationed across seven Cambodian provinces teaching English to rural schoolchildren. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP
Three U.S. Peace Corps volunteers sang the Cambodian national anthem in the local language as they led 15 other Americans in taking an oath Wednesday to formally begin their services in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation. Over the next two years, they will be stationed in seven Cambodian provinces to teach English to rural school children for the first time in the Peace Corps' 46-year history. Ron Tschetter, the Peace Corps' director from Washington, presided over the ceremony, which was attended by some 400 people, including Cambodians and U.S. Embassy officials. "I believe that Peace Corps' program in Cambodia will open new opportunities for future generations of Cambodians," Tschetter said in a speech before swearing in the 28 volunteers, 15 female and 13 male.
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US peace corps. Please don't forget to teach Hun Sen how to speake English also. He only knows how to speak and write Youn language. He even can't say or write proper Khmer language.
oh! don't worry,SAMDECH HUN SEN has many translators working for him, just improve your own english that's it.....
iT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOUR SAMDECH YOUN HUN SEN KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH NOT SOMEONE TRANSLATE FOR HIM.
Who care what language Somdach
can speak? His job is to serve
his people and his nation, that is
all.
Last time when he visted Australia, the Aust govt had to ensure that the interpreter had to be someone from the local community because he/she would have the courage to translate/interprete straight to the point, instead of beating around the bush like the private slaves of Hun Sen who sometimes were scared to tell him the exact meaning of the words, just to please the boss.
Ladies, you look absolutely lovely up there! Welcome to Cambodia!!!
Ordinary Khmers
Hun Sen doesn't learn English....
His dogs can speak good English,encluded White trashes !
Hun Sen doesn't learn English....
His dogs can speak good English,encluded White trashes !
Whoever supported Ah Hun Zen Shit animal will say FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU
Cambodia should invite native English speaking volunteers from all Anglo-Saxon countries (born-free countries: Britain, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) to teach English at all high schools on a a permanent basis. They should be made core English teachers at all those schools not simply to teach the language but also to help Cambodian English teachers.
The government and the ministry of education should have a foreign language policy: at the end of year nine (junior high school) an average student should be able to understand and make himself or herself understood in English; at the end of secondary education (senior high school) he or she should be fluent in spoken and written English. All students should be able to have an equal opportunity to acquire English skills. Now only students from well-off families can acquire them through paid-courses (some of them are quite bad). Those from poor families simply cannot afford to pay the fees.
Just as preventing the study of English or French as in the communist days is a crime, so it is no less reprehensible to deprive the poor of English skills by not taking advantage of the availability of native English speaking volunteers and inviting them to teach English at all high schools.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
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