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If you have always wanted to learn Khmer quickly but find it too overwhelming or complicated then keep reading...Khmer is a fun language to learn, the problem is most learning materials are costly and make language learning too complicated. We’ve created this audiobook which aims to make language learning simple. We teach you language patterns and grammar structures which can be used to form your own sentences. Instead of set phrases, which aren’t very practical.

Winner of 5 Awards: 2017 IPPY GOLD Award 2017 BookLife Award 2017 Writer’s Digest’s Self-Published E-Book Award 2018 National Indie Excellence Award 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist Award PLOT SYNOPSIS: With only half a canteen of water and one baby bottle, a family of eight fought for their lives in the killing fields and land mines of Cambodia. Surrounded by unimaginable adverse forces, one strong woman would ultimately lead her entire family to survive. Beautiful Hero is an autobiographical narrative told from a daughter’s perspective. The story centers around Meiyeng, the ...

From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and sympathy for Communist ideas have...

For former Marine sniper Dox, a long-range hit in Cambodia was supposed to be just business as usual. But when you find yourself mixed up with rogue intelligence operations, gorgeous bar girls, and the world's worst human-trafficking heart of darkness, business is anything but usual. And making it personal is the most dangerous business of all.

They built cities with indoor plumbing before Rome existed. They carved monuments from living rock. They engineered hydraulic systems that fed a million people. They developed writing systems we still cannot read. And then they vanished -- so completely that the modern world forgot they ever existed. History remembers the winners. The Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians. But for every civilization that left a legacy we recognize, there are others that achieved extraordinary things and then disappeared -- swallowed by deserts, jungles, successor states, or simply time itself. This book tells ...

The reign of the Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian communist regime, began on April 7, 1975 as Khmer Rouge militants entered the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, ultimately gaining control and forcing out its residents. For the next four years, the regime would remain in power and commit what is now referred to as the Cambodian Genocide. Their reign would result in economic turmoil, cultural destruction, and mass death, impacting Cambodia to this day.

For anyone who has ever loved a tradition from the outside of it — and found their way in. Sathea Bun is eighteen, Khmer-American, and has been reaching toward the inside of classical dance for six years. On the night she finally tells her mother the truth she's been carrying for three years, she falls asleep at her keyboard and wakes up in Srok Moreakot — a spirit realm drawn from Khmer cosmology, at war, where the ancient form she's been chasing exists in its complete, uncodified form. The realm called her here for a reason. What she finds: a ward-network failing at nine anchor points...

Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child." In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. 

When fifty-year-old Kravann Sovan wakes up one morning, he's no longer in his San Jose condo. He's in Bakersfield, 1985—in his father's body. Kravann has spent decades resenting his father's silence, his emotional distance, his absence even when he was in the room. But now he must live Boonsong's impossible life: every choice between food and rent, working the lettuce fields for minimum wage, raising five children in a cramped apartment, and carrying the weight of surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide. Every moment of bone-deep exhaustion teaches Kravann what his father could never say: that...

A beautiful celebration of the power of hope, this New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide. You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist “rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Cambodia, then pay attention...Cambodia, or, as it was once known, Kampuchea, is a beautiful country, replete with an incredibly wondrous system of canals. But its history has been marked by the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, which brought the nation to its knees. Although it has risen from the ashes of genocide, it is still facing a major crisis today. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the History of Cambodia.

“The challenge was not just to survive, but to survive without losing our humanity.” ~ Mac and Simone Leng The Cambodian Genocide claimed the lives of an estimated two million people – more than one-fourth of the total Cambodian population. Under the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, cities were evacuated and the population dispersed and forced into labor camps, where scores died of starvation, malnutrition, and disease. Pol Pot targeted the extermination of certain minorities, the educated, and all those who had any connection with the former regime. Cambodia was to ...

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2...

The largest city of the medieval world held three-quarters of a million people, ran on a water system engineers still study today, and then vanished so completely the wider world forgot it existed. For six hundred years the Khmer Empire ruled Southeast Asia from Angkor — a sprawling metropolis of temples, canals, and vast man-made reservoirs called barays. Its kings built Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument ever raised by human hands, and crowned the Bayon with hundreds of serene stone faces. Then, sometime after 1431, the capital emptied. The jungle moved in. The reservoirs silted...

Learn Khmer for Beginners! A Cambodian Language Learning Book! is perfect for people who have no other time to learn a new language. It contains over 1,000 common Khmer words and phrases that will help you in everyday life. Each phrase is read slowly and multiple times so that you can really learn the correct pronunciation. Each word-equivalent English translation is also provided.

If you are interested in this audiobook, it most likely means that you are about to embark on an exciting journey to the Kingdom of Wonder, Cambodia. Let me be the first to welcome you. Whether you are a volunteer, a teacher, a businessman, a government worker, an expat, or a tourist, you will find that being able to communicate Khmer with the local people will make your trip more enjoyable. This book is a simple guide to help you speak basic Khmer even if you have never spoken one Khmer word before. Each lesson contains phrases that help you to ask questions and begin a conversation.

She was just trying to finish the last episode. She didn't expect to end up in it. Leakhana Doung has her life perfectly under control — a stable dental hygienist job, her mom's leftover noodles, and exactly one episode left of the gloriously terrible jiangshi drama she's been hate-watching for three months. Then the screen goes white, and she wakes up somewhere that smells like wood smoke and horse. With roosters. And absolutely no WiFi. Somehow, Leakhana has landed inside the world of Eternal Night of the Hopping Dead — a show she knows inside and out, right down to who lives, who ...

Experience the charm of Cambodia with our beginner Khmer language course. This course is designed to make learning Khmer simple and enjoyable, whether you're preparing for a trip, working with Khmer speakers or want to better connect with your heritage.

'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart' Jon Swain, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time 'Like Auschwitz, like Stalin's purges, the mass murders of the Khmer Rouge are one of those extraordinary events that make us wonder...

Did you know that at its peak, Angkor was the largest city in the world, almost the size of a modern metropolis, maybe even comparable to Los Angeles? When we think of the great civilizations in the world, the first ones that come to mind are Egyptian, Inca, Greek, and Roman civilizations. Not many people think of the Khmer Empire or are aware of how great it was. The Khmer Empire was the greatest player in the political and cultural world of medieval Southeast Asia.