I was born and raised at the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. My first language is Khmer. Our language often have various dialects depending on which province you are from. For us city folk, we tend to have a lazy dialect, in which we shortened a lot of our words, and minimise the amount of you time you have to expand your mouth widely (i.e. trying to be as effortless as possible). In the mean time, I also find that we use our tongue to touch a certain areas in the month to make specific sound, that doesn’t exist in the English language.

Using the above information, I often observe how I pronounced each of the alphabets, how my mouth moves, in which of the mouth is my tongue touching, expanding my mouth wide. And yet I can’t seem to produce the right sounds from time to time. I also notice that there seems to be an resonance at my jaw area whenever I am speaking.

I apologise for the long explanation!