Practical foundations
Open contact, choose address forms, ask questions, negate, count, transact, order, request, locate and describe.
Public curriculum map
An evolving curriculum from practical foundations to complex communication
This map describes stable capabilities and progression rather than publishing lesson or activity counts. It follows the evolving sequence of the Speaking and Reading paths.
Speaking progression
Daily connected language
Talk about identity, family, work, home, routines, time, movement, health and plans while expanding word-building and sentence order.
Time, logic and narrative
Express completed, future and ongoing action; sequence events; give reasons and results; form conditions; compare and count with classifiers.
Social and reflective communication
Agree and disagree, soften requests, express emotion and modality, manage register, report speech, retell, state opinions and develop an argument.
Reading progression
Structural anchor
Find the base consonant, distinguish consonant series and understand the built-in vowel.
Vowel position and contrast
Read above, left-side, wrap-around and bottom vowels; distinguish lookalike and sound-pair consonants.
Complex word structure
Recognize coeng and subscripts, modifiers, final consonants, reusable word parts and increasingly complete words.
Transfer
Move from guided color and audio to warm-ups without hints, word breakdown, sentence work and everyday text.
Practice and checkpoints
The learning path combines concise theory, audio-supported vocabulary, dialogues, listening decisions, word and glyph analysis, quizzes, immediate application, spaced repetition and checkpoints. Activities require both recognition and productive choice.
How the two paths connect
Speaking supplies useful meaning, sound and situations; Reading shows how those same sounds and words are organized in Khmer script. Learners can begin with either path, then use familiar spoken language to make reading less abstract and script knowledge to make pronunciation and vocabulary more stable.
Review across the progression
Review cards and spaced repetition return vocabulary and constructions after their lesson context. They work alongside dialogue, listening, immediate application and checkpoints, reinforcing the connected Speaking and Reading sequence rather than replacing it.
Frequently asked questions
What does the curriculum map show?
It shows the stable sequence of skills, communicative actions and reading structures without republishing paid lesson content or relying on quickly outdated activity counts.
How far does the Speaking path progress?
It moves from practical foundations into time and aspect, linked clauses, conditions, comparison, retelling, social register, opinions and structured argument.
How does review fit the curriculum?
Review cards and spaced repetition bring learned vocabulary and constructions back after lessons while the course sequence continues to develop Speaking and Reading.