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jay-shi · Joined: 09 May 2004 Location: On tour

I stumbled onto this interesting site : http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html

From the site: "In different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? Below is the world's biggest multilingual list. A guiding principle behind this list is to visualise a comic book, in your language, and imagine what would be written in the text balloon coming from the mouth of an animal. For languages that use a different alphabet, I have tried to transliterate the word into the English alphabet for ease of comparison. A forward slash is used to separate alternative words. Please email me at dabbott(at)eleceng.adelaide.edu.au if you have any comments, corrections or additions."

Unfortunately there is no mention of these in the Korean language.

My question to you is this; have you seen, or rather heard, any of your Korean students make animal sounds that are different from what you expected them to be?

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

All I know is 멍멍 for a dog (sometimes people call a dog 멍멍이) and I think 야옹 for a cat. I'm really interested in hearing others if anyone knows.

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

Also wol wol for a dog...( don't have hangeul anymore )

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

tomato · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject:

This song is to the tune of "Are You Sleeping, Brother John?"

오리는 꽥꽥, 오리는 꽥꽥,
염소 음메, 염소 음메,
돼지는 꿀꿀, 돼지는 꿀꿀,
소는 음머, 소는 음머.

JAWINSEOUL · Joined: 19 Nov 2005

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

Cat: yeown
dog: mong mong
cow: maa maa
sheep: baa baa
pig: kkul kkul
rooster: cockey-oh cockey-oh

all Korean

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

I thought this was about the Beachboys. Laughing

ThePoet · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject:

A girl was telling me her dog never listened to her or did what she told it to do.

I asked her what type of dog it was

She told me it was a Yorkshire terrier

So I said there's your problem, you're speaking Korean to an English dog breed.

She looked surprised for a second and then contemplative, and then finally told me I was probably right. She would start talking to it in English from now on.

Sometimes, it doesn't matter how we mimic their sounds...its how well they understand us!

Poet

kermo · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:

kermo · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject:

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

My girlfriend always says "minyao" when she's playing with our cat. She has a bunch of words.

Mashimaro · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location

I thought this was going to be a Beach Boys thread Crying or Very sad

tomato · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 6:56 am Post subject:

I hope I don't get sued for copyright infringement.