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Sounds of the World's Animals

Subject Area:

Elementary

Address/URL:

http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/

Description:

Animals make the same sounds all over the world, but human languages express these sounds in different ways. Discovering these differences can be entertaining and educational at the same time. This site provides fun and interesting educational content. The excitement of discovering this site can be easily turned into better focus on spelling and pronunciation and a later interest in foreign languages or linguistics.

How You Can Use This Source:

Start your own collection of animal sounds from multilingual members of your community or from languages of your family's roots - and learn more about these cultures in the process.
Find out why similar sounds are spelled differently in different languages - or even within English - from the section dedicated to this question.
Are there any sounds or expressions unique to your region or to a region you know? Discover the parts of your daily language that differ from the mainstream.

Go to Sounds of the World's Animals.