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Nuch Sars | Health San Jose, Calif., have noted a ae KR Tribunal growing concern in Khmer (64 NB) Politics communities regarding the loss of Usten (MP3) the Khmer language in the US and gq the linkage it offers to Cambodian Women's Issues News in Khmer E-mail this article Khmer Audio culture and traditions. ® Prine version “morning Show | Group photo of Students and —EE Evening Show | teachers st Khmer schoolin. A community of Cambodian ‘Cambodia News 7-Day Archive | 587 Jose volunteers has been running the — * Prosecutor Files for’ ‘Pall Formats | Cambodian Literacy School of San Jose for 20 years to prevent More Khmer Rouge Broadcast Info this. Programs & aoa Affliates ‘The school aims to bring Cambodian children back to their cultural = Thais Sioceade | Call-in Show. roots and encourage them towards education and better Cassava Crossing <9 Frequencies communication with their parents, through language lessons and No Land Lost on Contact Us cultural programs. Border: Thai Premier Services # E-mailnews. | Kas Thon, a senior teacher and adviser, has helped transform the” Appesicuspecte ———— Khmer Literacy School with a new structure. He said the projects Release <> Ttien teaming | 2f€ Now designed to provide services that bridge the = School Fights VOA Rlucie Mix | intergenerational gap between Cambodian parents and their Lanquage Loss in US RFA Khmer chidren. ~ A Quarter of Adults ee suffer Lscting “since early 1989, we have been serving hundreds of Cambodian Trauma: Doctor «® Journalist Code | and non-Cambodian students, aged 7 to late twenties, throughout » Judges Find Difticuty ‘the county of Santa Ciara. When we first started, we had 300, in Tribuna'’s Second students, and we did not have enough rooms for them. We. a * ‘opened another location. Parents, with continuous support, kept” Hun Sen, Researcher bringing children to dasses regularly.” Indictments «Former khmer Rouge The program begins with speaking and listening activities based on Questions experiences with which children are familiar. Reading is introduced | Indictments through simple stories that feature familar situations. Exploring * Epa rena farmers words and letters leads to the beginnings of writing aie peli in Construction The school is run by a team of Cambodian teachers, parents and Sector volunteers and offers free literacy classes every Saturday, from 10 ~ Bed Loans on the am to noon for children, and 10 am to 1 pm for adults. The school ise, Central Bank 's located at the Tull Community Branch Library and at the Khmer | WATS SL Buddhist Temple of Khemara Rangsey In San Jose. ee et es Policy Continues <> Srey Tha came to the US in 1989 at the age of 16. She did not __- Police Shoot One in know how to read or write Khmer when she ived in Cambodia. Domestic Violence Srey Tha now brings her 17-year-old daughter to the Khmer L eee Literacy School every Saturday, and she has learned to read and * Broteecn‘of Rights wnite herself. Defenders’ < + Three Advocates To *Thave come to this school for more than four years,” she said. Adirass US Rights Commission + Thai Pariament Opens Way for Border Taks > ‘Sambun Boun, 2 volunteer teacher, said his class has three + Retired King Flios to different levels. Some students can read and write, some can only Beljing For Check-Lp spell words, and others have just begun. o “Now I can read and write Khmer. I want my daughter to speak and read Khmer and learn Khmer culture and traditions." * khmer Rouge Survivors Gather in “I want the students to make more progress in learning Khmer,” | Us he said. "We, the teachers, will have a program to meet the + More Trafficking parents of students. We will explain to them that they to be Prosecutions involved; they can make a difference. If children see the mother__|_ Needed: Groups and father reading and writing Khmer on a day basis, they tend to * 2000 Border do that, too.” Disadvantage: Expert Many Cambodian children transition to using English and attain + Duch Highlights only limited skills in Khmer, becoming less interested in traditional Flaws in Pol Pots activities. Many children and young adults are beginning to lose Revolution <> " - News Victim their mother tongue. Participation in ‘Tbunal a Precedent: Meanwhile, generational differences and conflict in language use Official <> often develop in the homes, as children use English and their * Court Lambasted for Parents and grandparents speak Khmer, diminishing their ability to Dropping Acid Attack communicate with each other. + Support Unlikely for Blocking Tribunal BI cai Bovine Indictments > ' Accused Pedophiles ‘Transferred to US <> 2B Digg (B) Yahoo tuss [EP Facebooie WM cel.co.us GY stumbleupon ‘+ Group Monitors More @ hnvernet | Protected Mods: On ay Aim. +