This brilliant video and live performance combo cooked up by 2008 SEASSI Khmer students weaves the true heroic tale of the legendary 2004 Khmer SEASSI volleyball team (when we had a 6-1 record) into the tragic events of 2008, when we were 0-7. Now we know why.
Each month our crack team of wacky reporters takes you into the heart of Khmer culture on the highways and byways of Southeast Asia. Extreme Khmer is a video podcast done entirely in Khmer and intended for students who have completed at least one year of university-level Khmer study.
In this episode, the first of many exploring the Khmers of Surin in present-day Thailand, we visit a school started by a Sisaket Khmer man who teaches Khmer reading and writing. Write to khmersurin@gmail.com for more info. You can also use that address to donate to his school on PayPal. A little bit goes a long way!
Finally, Season Three of Extreme Khmer is here! According to our tradition, we begin in Surin, where we interview an 80-year-old Kuy man about his experiences trapping and training elephants in Cambodia and Thailand. Check out the extras to this episode on studykhmer.com, plus watch a higher-quality version of the video.
We return to the land of the "Northern Khmer" to interview the legendary Kantreum singer Nam Pheung Muang Surin. Be sure to check out the full-length live versions of several of the songs featured in this episode, both on YouTube and in the "Ephemera" section of studykhmer.com
Each month our crack team of wacky reporters takes you into the heart of Khmer culture on the highways and byways of Southeast Asia. Extreme Khmer is a video podcast done entirely in Khmer and intended for students who have completed at least one year of university-level Khmer study.
http://www.studyk hmer.com
Microbreweries are common in the US and elsewhere, but in this episode we take you on a tour of the absolute first one in Cambodia, Man Han Lou restaurant in Phnom Penh. Just to keep things interesting, the brewmeister is Chinese and speaks no Khmer, but never
fear, we've got that covered...
An interview with a Cambodian pilot who files for Bangkok Airways (and trains Thai pilots!), and the story of a 1996 air crash in Phnom Penh, with a video of the sole survivor from Thai television.
The title says it all! By the way, if you like the music behind the closing credits for this episode, by Khmer rapper A-Ping, check out http://www.boeungkap lhaok.com/
This is the last Extreme Khmer episode before we go on vacation for three months. Thanks everyone for watching; see you in September for more fun-filled adventures!
This video and song are from Mai's fourth album of Pumpuang Duangchan songs. Besides being a nice cover of the luk thung classic "Nak Rong Baan Nok," the video is a tribute to Pumpuang's early rise to fame...a little heavy on the sentimental side but all-in-all nicely done.
Here's the thrilling conclusion of the 2008 SEASSI Intermediate Khmer class' interpretation of the novel Sophat as a gangster drama. If you didn't watch Part 1 already, go back and do that first!
The first of a special two-part episode on an important Khmer legend. Hear the tale discussed by a Khmer scholar and told by a fortune teller, and see movie clips and doll stop-animation versions of key scenes. Stay tuned next month for the thrilling conclusion!!
Every summer at the intensive language program where I teach Khmer, each language group performs a song, skit or dance for "culture night". In 2002, the Khmer Program outdid everyone: we formed a rock group and did our own version of the 1960s Khmer psychedelic classic "Cyclo"...here it is. And yes, "Extreme Khmer" fans, that's yours truly on lead guitar!
This is a classic Sin Sisamouth pop song from the 60s/70s, expertly performed with kazoo accompaniment by the 2008 SEASSI Khmer class at "Poetry Night".
The conclusion of our two-part series on young artists in Cambodia today. We learn a little about the history of modern art in Cambodia, and check out a graffiti workshop with women's art group Selapak Neary. See http://saphan.info for more.
Continuing our inventory of the astounding creativity and genre-hopping skills of the SEASSI 2008 Beginning Khmer class (these folks have been studying Khmer for just 2 months, folks), here we have another group's final oral exam performance.
![Sophat 2008: \"The Godson\" Part 2](http://img.youtube.com/vi/3tnuAXBEF1w/2.jpg "Sophat 2008: \\"The Godson\\" Part 2")
![2002 SEASSI Khmer Class Performance of \"Cyclo\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/F5eVxfP6vt0/2.jpg "2002 SEASSI Khmer Class Performance of \\"Cyclo\\"")
![A \"First Nations\" Legend in Khmer](http://img.youtube.com/vi/yHzkW2WXpuo/2.jpg "A \\"First Nations\\" Legend in Khmer")
