UPDATE: June 26, 2009. Please read before ordering!
I am out of both Beginning and Heritage Textbooks for the rest of the summer. I will be printing more once I get back to California in late August. Feel free to order now so you'll be first in line for a book, just realize that you won't receive your book until the second week of September or so.

I regret that I have had to raise the price of textbooks to $70, effective immediately. This is due to my switching to UPS for shipping of all my textbooks. The US Postal Service has been losing too many shipments. From now on, all books will be shipped by UPS Ground and you will be supplied with a tracking number when the book is shipped.

Note that if you live in Thailand or Cambodia and want to buy books, I am traveling to both those places in December 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 (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. 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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