Sounds All Around: A Guide to Onomatopoeias Around the World
Author: Chapman, James
ISBN: 9781524850760
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 168
Dimensions: 5.9 inches x 9 inches x 0.4 inches
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
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!
ISBN: 9781524850760
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 168
Dimensions: 5.9 inches x 9 inches x 0.4 inches
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
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!
