Sounds All Around : A Guide to Onomatopoeias Around the World
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Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
1524850764
ISBN-13
9781524850760
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Imprint
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 17th, 2020
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
398 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.70 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
General knowledge & trivia (Children's / Teenage)
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Did you know that in German, a pig doesn’t say oink, it says gruntz, and when you sneeze in Japanese it’s hakushon, not achoo? With vibrant comics and fun facts, Sounds All Around will teach you interesting and funny onomatopoeias from all over the world!
Did you know that in German, a pig doesn’t say oink, it says gruntz, and when you sneeze in Japanese it’s hakushon, not achoo? With vibrant comics and fun facts, Sounds All Around will teach you interesting and funny onomatopoeias from all over the world!
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!
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!
Get Sounds All Around by James Chapman at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Andrews McMeel Publishing and it has 168 pages.
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