SOUNDS ALL AROUND A Guide to Onomatopoeias Around the World Dr. James Chapman Andrews McMeel PUBLISHING
Let's Make Some Noise Learning the sounds animals make is an essential part of language learning Spending hours and hours pretending you're a chicken or a dog is not only great fun it's educational too If you grew up speaking English you probably already know your woofs and meows from your clucks and quacks but how does the rest of the world describe sounds IN JAPANESE CATS DON'T GO MEOW IN GERMAN PIGS DON'T GO OINK IN HINDI FROGS DON'T GO RIBBIT NYAN GRUNZ TARR A There's a whole world of words for all the sounds you know and love And even some words for sounds that don't show up in English The words that imitate sounds are known as Onomatopoeia These words are a wonderfully strange and interesting part of language After all we hear the same sounds but we interpret and write them differently in different languages
