10 July 2013

What Do People Of Other Languages Think Animals Sound Like?

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Inspired by a lunchtime conversation with some friends, Vimeo user properniceinnit decided to find out how different languages interpreted animal sounds.



The video features speakers of English, Mandarin, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Hindi, Canadian-French, Romanian, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, Bengali, Brazilian-Portuguese, Colombian-Spanish, Swahili and Mongolian, and asks them to make animal sounds in their language.



Almost everyone agreed on what a cow and cat sounds like, but it’s pretty surprising how different the other answers are.



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