Because of my previous experience in Cambodia, I've decided that I should take up some Khmer lessons. At first I thought Khmer might not be very difficult for the fact that it is not a tonal language like Burmese, Thai or even Chinese. But I was wrong. There are so many vowels, and each vowel has got two pronunciations, depending on which category of consonant it is used with. To make things worse, the pronunciation of these vowels and consonants are rather hard, and some even sounded alike! I'm not sure if I'd be able to make it at all learning it on my own like this!
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