Nimol is our Khmer language teacher. Don't be fooled by her sweet smile ...
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... she is requiring our tongues to go where linguistically they have never gone before! We've moved to morning classes for July; Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. We have fun and we have pain ...still working on getting new words in without yesterday's words falling out. Anyway, merry niat mien crrew-sa harr-rin-will to you all.
The days in between are pretty necessary for practice and revision. Sue and I work on this together
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It's fun using what we learn out in the streets. I did some brilliant stuff today and I could see that it never even occurred to the nice lady that I was speaking her lingo ... which I'm led to believe could be the norm for the next year or three. Susie turned a few heads yesterday with her 'somtoh' (sorry/excuse me) as she squeezed past someone in Psar Toung Tom Pong (the local market). Polite is noteworthy out here!
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