The meeting of Khmer students and Buddhist monks at Buriram Rajabhat University's Centre of Khmer Studies on 7th November.By Khmerization
A group of Khmer students, with the supports of an overseas Khmer NGO, have on 7th Novemeber formed an alliance with some Khmer Surin intellectuals to create an association to teach Khmer language to native Khmer Surin and Khmer Buriram people living in the northeastern part of Thailand.
This group of Khmer students, who are studying at Thai universities, have cooperated with Mr. Moeung Sonn's Paris-based Khmer Civilisation Foundation and Mr. Chakri Sirisontharanond's Thai-Cambodian Friendship Association based in Thailand's Buriram province to form Khmer Suvarnaphum Civilisation Alliance to revive and teach the Khmer language to Khmer Surin and Khmer Buriram people, who are native Khmers living in Thailand.
In a meeting at Buriram Rajabhat University's Centre of Khmer Studies on 7th November, the group has come up with a number of decisions. Mr. Seng Rathanin, one of Khmer Suvarnaphum Civilisation Association's executive members, told the Free Press Magazine that the meeting had reached an agreement on teaching programs, the curriculum and what books to use in the teaching. "In the meeting, we have raised 4 important points. First, we will form a temporary Khmer Suvarnaphum Civilisation Committee. Second to open the association's bank account. Third, to choose the textbooks and develop the curriculum and fourth, to issue a certificate to graduates", he said.
Mr. Seng Rathanin added that the first textbook chosen is a Khmer Textbook For Foreigners, written and compiled by a famous Khmer professor, who is teaching the Khmer language at one of Japanese universities. The second textbook chosen is the Social Studies Textbook Level I, written and compiled by the Cambodian Ministry of Education.
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Awesome work guys! Khmer all over should remain united and stay true and strong to their own culture and belief. Please keep the excellent work! We need to do the same for Khmer Krom in Vietnam.. lets NOT forget about them for they too are out brothers and sisters! Long live Cambodia!
That the first step we should do we have to united all Khmer us onces. hoping some day Khmer will be united again.
Any country that government do good for it people will alway United it people to live in they own country,. I visited Siem Reap and Battabang Most Khmer there think they are Thai or Chinese family. They are full of shit. Should be proud if you are Khmer.
Kon Thai
please help to encourage all khmer surin and people with a trace of khmer origin to learn about khmer language, khmer history, etc... they say practice makes perfect. yes, khmer language such as reading, writing, etc is not that difficult to learn at all, really. please encourage all to learn the basic by reciting and practice writing, pronouncing and speak in legible, fluent khmer language. also, listen to khmer classic music from the 1950s, the 1960s and 1970s, etc as they all contained good khmer voices or sounds by the renouned singers like mr. sinn sisamouth, ms. ros sereysothea, ms. huy meas, ms. so savoeun, mr. meas samoeun, ms. pen ron, etc, etc... also listen to khmer drama, plays, and many more traditional music, arts, etc, will help us with attaining a strong, fluent khmer language skills as well as practicing speaking and communicating with native khmer people who are highly educated both in cambodia and abroard, etc... may god bless all khmer people.
please learn khmer for the sake of cambodia. don't hate our motherland cambodia, instead change the way people are thinking, behavior, communicating, etc... it's not cambodia, the beautiful country, it's the incompetent leadership style of thinking, behaving, communiting, ignorant, failure, etc, that make us see cambodia as bad, but the country itself will always be cambodia and beautiful, the land of khmer people. god bless cambodia.
just because we were separated by political geography doesn't mean we should hate cambodia for our failed leadership system, at least of the past or from history, etc... we have to love cambodia and our khmer language, etc... please help to promote our beautiful khmer language, etc...
Very good initiative and good work. All rich Khmers and Khmer overseas should help this group.
where ever you live you shall keep your race and language. Why VN did not allow to do like that for khmer krom?
I am deffinately sure that we cannot do the work like this in that of vietnam.
It is still too difficult for the monk to get permission from vietnam to visit vietnam,no need to talk about staying and doing any work there.
yes, khmer language is not difficult to learn. please learn to speak, write and read our beautiful khmer language! always start with learning the basic like the khmer alphabets, vowels, pronounciation in khmer reading and writing, etc... it's not hard, trust me! have fun learning our beautiful khmer language, this include khmer krom people, khmer surin and of course khmer people in cambodia and overseas, too. thank you and enjoy!
Sorry we khmer around the world cant get alone.
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