Extreme Khmer Episode 20: Return to Phnom Penh

[IshDat1KiD]

Man, you have a really good Khmer accent too.

If I closed my eyes, I wouldn't be able to hear the difference.

[kamaeRocker76]

Is there any more new episode coming up or that's it?

[tchhom]

maybe she is right. back then, there were less Vietnamese pple. Now, they're everywhere in Phnom Penh.

[krashk00l]

Preahko, u are my new hero man. I love how u talk in Khmer. Keep up the good work. I love your show.

[xexbox360]

From 1970's there are 2,000,000 people in Phnom Penh not 300,000. man she doesn't about population in Phnom Penh back then.

[preahko]

Not exactly. She's right about the general population of Phnom Penh during that time. The 2 million figure you mention was only true at the tail end of the civil war (late 1974-early 1975), when the population swelled with refugees prior to the victory of the Khmer Rouge.

[xexbox360]

yeah, but still in 1970 the population is almost 1 million.

[megamunchit2008]

I was wondering, can the guy narrating the video also speak Cantonese?

[preahko]

haha...nope. I did study Cantonese for a few months about 17 years ago, but I can't speak it today. I'd like to learn someday, though.

[megamunchit2008]

Oh, ok. I just thought you were an actor in one of the Hong Kong movie. You look and sound almost like him.

[megamunchit2008]

I'm also curious as to how come you decided to learn Khmer? Not much demand for Khmer anything.

[s1prark]

I really enjoy your video footage which make me feel closer to my homeland. I really admire your Khmer skill, he can speak Khmer better than me which is sad to say. To see someone other than your own people speak Khmer, which making me feel that the world is so small. But yet we are half the globe away. Thanks for sharing.

[cslscs]

oh that is great. i also want to hear and see what cambodia has transformed better...

[uponastar]

hehe...mr. preahko has his hair straighten like all the boys in cambodia. it looks good. :D

[preahko]

haha, thanks...not a regular thing, I had it done special for that day!

[cambojam]

Another great video frank but i seem to be having trouble downloading the pod cast for this one, it doesn't seem to want to play! thank you.

[Khmerforce4Life]

How long was this video?

[SaiyanVes]

I love that song in the beginning, my mom use to sing it to me when I was younger.

[LionheartPnshmnt]

I'm glad that this focused mainly on the wonderful era Cambodia experienced after her independence up until the civil war which seems to have been nearly forgotten and eclipsed by the genocide.

I may not have been born during that era but growing up listening to music from that era I feel strongly attached.

How she described her life in Phnom Penh prior to the Khmer Rouge is very interesting.

[insanox]

Do you know about Cambodia martial arts, Kbach Kun Boran? Can you do an episode on that?

[preahko]

Good suggestion. Yes, I've thought about that before, and I hope to cover it one of these days...

[rashmeysoriyavideo]

wow,i had  that book about ten years ago,Keep you is no benifet to destroy you is no lost.

[bunrocks02]

just wonderin, where can i get a copy of the book?

[preahko]

you can find it easily on Amazon...the book is "To Destroy You is No Loss"

[bunrocks02]

sorry, i didnt read the info.

[bunrocks02]

wish I could have gone to UC Berkely and taken one of your khmer language class. there are no khmer language class at san jose state.

[preahko]

check out SEASSI, in Wisconsin, where I teach in the summer...too late for this year to get a fellowship, but maybe next year? do a Google search for SEASSI and Khmer and then follow the first link...

[bunrocks02]

I cant afford to go to wisconsin. why dont you teach in san jose? there is large khmer base here.

[jaonthairobber666]

Very interesting, preahko.

[HavinThangz]

hey preahko do you also like khmer music too?

[preahko]

Khmer music? haha, of course, I use it in every one of my episodes!

[maxipep]

Great video! Does anyone know the English version of the song that is at the end of this clip?

[preahko]

"Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell

[maxipep]

Thank you very much!!!

[cgnet05]

never stop filimg extreme khmer, my family and i enjoy it very much

[BAISin08]

great ending tune, Frank

[jeebruh]

គេនិយាយលឿន

[tys73er]

Of course, Phnom Penh now is diffrent than 33 years ago. Gosh, I've been in US 11 years and I can't hardly recognize it there. Thanks pou Frank and the team for the time.

[elflauta1]

makes me want to be around my khmer friends again, where i felt so safe and really loved. i lost two friends to aids in the last few years. RIP Serey Soun and Vannak Hoy, I love you guys....and miss you terribly.....

[preahko]

Please note that Bong Teeda's daughter's name is written incorrectly in the closing credits, it should be Laura Tevary Mam!

[alien7blood]

laura mam? the berkely student who sings beautifully?

[preahko]

the one and only!

[alien7blood]

thats pretty cool. laura is stepping up the game and changing the stereotype of khmer kids abroad.

[alien7blood]

its wonderful that she got to meet old faces from past lives. makes me want to go to cambodia and start a life out there

[microtekpwr]

Frank, you have a very well educated show about khmers, have you ever wonder to  have a show about khmers live in vietnam and laos.? thanks so much.