Hok Dara

good lesson altho I became very hungry learning vocabualary for food.

I was happy to resume classes with Dara. The lessons are always fun and I appreciate his patience when my brain goes down a rabbit hole over the nuances of spoken Khmer. Definitely looking forward to the next class.

英語は聞きやすく、こちらの意向を踏まえて授業を開始してくれました

Orgun chraen for another great lesson. Today we repeated the phrases I already learned and started studying numbers. We also continued to study the alphabet and I managed to read my first words and sentences without transliterations :)

It helps me that Dara has good audio quality so that I never struggle to hear the details in his pronunciation. His knowledge of English is reassuring. He is a generous and thoughtful man. Most importantly, I feel like I got from him exactly what I wanted: A deeper understanding of Khmer.

Excellent first lesson. Dara seems to me like *the opposite* of a teacher who waits for his student to finish talking so that he (the teacher) can give a reply that he had already prepared long beforehand. No, Dara was always focused on me, meeting me where I was at every step of the way. He's funny, too. This man's great. 5 stars.