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How Do You Say Cluck Cluck in French?
Here in France, we have chickens and cows next door. I was teaching Baby June how to say moo and bawk, when I realized, the French will have different animal sounds they teach their children. I love the whole idea! Makes me think of David Sedaris and his funny essay where he discusses how different countries make the rooster sound — like cocorico and kikiriki — instead of the English cockadoodledoo.
If you’re interested in exposing young children to new languages, animal sounds would be a fun way to start. My readers recommended some French animal sounds books: Cher Zoo. Le Livre des Bruits. And Poulette Crevette. I can’t wait to check them out.
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Stephanie commented on Feb 26 11 at 8:43 amMy friend is an English teacher at a local preschool in our city in China. She JUST wrote a post about animal sounds in Chinese.
http://kelleywritesablog.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/old-mcdonald-may-need-a-translator/
In her cute little picture, the American sheep says “Baaaaa…” and the Chinese sheep says (in Chinese) “What did you say?”
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