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Vocabulary: animals' noise

                                                                        ANIMAL  NOISES

 It's curious to notice that people, in different parts of the world, simply do not hear the same noise when a dog 'woofs 'or a duck' quacks'.

In France dogs go 'ouah, ouah' and ducks go 'coin, coin'.

 What do people say to mimic the rooster cry ? 

  English:  cock-a-doodle doo             French:  cocorico             Spanish:  kikiriki

  Portugese:  cucurucu                        German:  kikeriki             Italian:  chicchirichi

  Danish:  kykyliky                                 Dutch:  kukeleku             Russian:  kukareku 

 Here are three dogs, they don't make the same noise

 little dog:  yap, yap                   middle sized dog:  woof, woof              big dog: bow wow  

 The French frog says:   croa croa        the English one:   croak                            

                and in the USA it says:   ribbit            

 a horse says  neigh         a cow says moo          a sheep says baa       a goat says  naa

 a crane says clang            a camel says grumph       an elephant says baraag

           pretty boy                                                 gobble gobble

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1. This seems to be a particular case, when a snake is hissing everybody hears tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
2. A bird which sings sometimes says 'cheep cheep' but most of them say tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
3. When a hen has laid an egg in French it says 'cotcotcodet' in English it's tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
4. A pig grunting makes a short low sound in its throat tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
5. If a wolf is howling you can hear tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
6. An alligator which shuts its jaws makes a frightening tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
7. A cat purrs to show that it is pleased, if it's in distress it says tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
8. Near a swarm of bees you can hear a big tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
9. A donkey which brays makes a sound that is not very pleasant to hear tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow
10. Doves or pigeons make a low soft call tweet tweet oink oink sss buzz or bzzz coo cluck cluck hew-haw snap owooooo meow