Language is both tool and territory. To learn another language is to accept a kind of hospitality: you enter a system of sounds, metaphors, and social cues that shape how people perceive the world. To speak Khmer is not merely to reproduce words; it is to touch the lived life of a people whose traditions and traumas are encoded in their syntax and idioms. For someone like Do Bong Soon — or for any person known for strength — learning Khmer could be an act of solidarity: an attempt to bridge distance, to honor a history not one’s own, to stand beside others without flattening their difference.