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Sounds all around : a guide to onomatopoeias around the world / Dr. James Chapman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Kansas : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 165 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781524850760
  • 1524850764
Other title:
  • Guide to onomatopoeias around the world
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Did you know that in German, a pig doesn't say oink, it says grunz, and when you sneeze in Japanese it's hakushon, not achoo? With vibrant comics and fun facts, [this book] will teach you interesting and funny onomatopoeias from all over the world!" -- From back cover.
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Graphic Novel 401.4 C466 Available 33111009748068
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Words that imitate sounds are known as onomatopoeia, and they are a wonderfully strange and interesting part of language. After all, we all hear the same sounds, but we interpret and write them differently in different languages.



Sounds All Around is a fun and funny illustrated guide to how people say many of these sounds all around the globe.



Inside you'll learn what a cat sounds like in French, what a yawn sounds like in Norwegian, what a bell sounds like in Hindi, and much, much more!

"Did you know that in German, a pig doesn't say oink, it says grunz, and when you sneeze in Japanese it's hakushon, not achoo? With vibrant comics and fun facts, [this book] will teach you interesting and funny onomatopoeias from all over the world!" -- From back cover.

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