Moo.
Moo, moo, moo, moo, moo.
Moo.
Hey, cow. What are you doing?
Moo.
This is a cow, and the cow lives in not a house, a barn.
Do you like cows? Are they delicious?
I'm going to eat you, cow. Don't do it! Okay, so today...
Hi, everyone out there. My name's Ronnie. If you've got children sitting around, bring them here,
they're going to learn something,
you're going to learn something. It's going to be fantastic.
I promise I won't say bad words.
Maybe just one. So, today I'm going to teach you-moo, barn-animal sounds
-fun, fun, fun-in English. And while your kids are learning this, you are going to be practicing
pronunciation. I even do it right now. So learn English animal noises, practice your
pronunciation, have fun with your kids, and eat a hamburger. I can't think of anything
better for you to do right now.
The first animal, as I said, delicious, is chuck la moo a cow. A cow says moo. If I go
up to the board here, I have a cow. A cow says moo. Sometimes the sounds in English
and the words that we use for the sounds are the same. With a cow, it's moo, moo, moo,
moo, moo, moo, moo all around. If you're really, really, really good at cow noises, you can
even go maaa. You try.
No. Do it again.
One more time. A cow goes...
Yeah, I like it. I like it.
Okay, next one. Quack, quack. Do you know what noise that is or what animal makes that
noise? Quack, quack, quack. It is a duck. Quack. Now, a duck does not live in a barn.
Quack. A duck lives in the water, and they're really cool because they can fly and swim.
Awesome. Also delicious. I would eat duck. Have you eaten duck? Quack. So, a duck says
quack. Now, ladies and gentlemen, it's really difficult in English sometimes for me to hear
if you are saying "duck" or if you are saying "dog". Everyone from around the world, I don't
care what country you're from, this is really, really hard, and this is where you get to
practice your pronunciation. So, when you want to say this guy-quack, quack-you're going
to say: "duck". It rhymes with the word "truck". Mm-hmm. If you want to say man's best friend,
it's a dog. Dog. Okay?
I have a dog, he's really cute. You want to see him? You ready? Do you have a dog?
This is my dog. Woof, woof. Sometimes dogs go woof, woof. It depends how big they are. My dog's
pretty small and he says woof, woof. In English, a dog says woof, woof. Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.
And he actually... Dogs don't talk. Did you know that? Oh, sorry, they do talk,
but when they talk, the language they're lear-... It's not English, it's bark. So dogs
bark, but the sound that we make is woof, woof. And the language that they speak is
bark. Not barf, bark. So, we have a dog says woof, and we have a-I didn't eat it-a duck
says quack. Duck, dog. And this guy is a cow, and he says moo.
Woo-hoo.
Next up, again we have to be careful with our pronunciation because if you don't say
the "p" on this animal, sheep, or if you say the e's wrong, I think you're saying ship.
Ships don't really make any noises, do they?
Kids, ships? No. Ships kind of go: "Unh, I'm a ship." But this guy, a sheep...
A sheep says maaa or if it's a boy it says baaa. So
boy sheep say baaa, and girl sheep say maaa, maaa. Are you a boy sheep or a girl sheep?
If you're a boy sheep, you go baaa.
If you're a girl sheep, go maaa.
Make your best sheep noise. Go!
Oo, I liked it. Okay, so sheep. Baaa or maaa.
Next one, one of my favourites. I've ridden one. Oh, I've forgotten something.
Delicious,
delicious,
never tried,
Ronnie hates sheep.
This is the only food that people really,
really, really like, lamb, mutton also known as. Guess what? That's a sheep you're eating.
It's probably the only animal that I don't like to eat. So, please don't ever feed me
sheep or lamb. I will... I just won't eat it. I don't like it.
The next one up, one of my personal favourites is ee-aw, ee-aw. Ready? Ee-aw. Or we say hee-haw.
I like ee-aw better. It is one of the most funny animals in the world, a donkey.
Ee-aw.
Do you have a pet donkey? I don't. I have a dog, not a donkey. This is a donkey.
Donkeys say ee-aw. Mm-hmm.
Next up,
[snorts]
we have a pig.
Delicious again. Now, unfortunately,
I lost my pig.
I don't have a pig anymore. I think somebody ate my pig. They had bacon, or pork, or a
nice roast. So I don't have a pig, but I have a picture of a pig if you'd like to see.
His name's Bob. This is my pig, Bob. And pigs say oink, oink.
They also do something called
snort, so they go [snorts].
Try it.
[Snorts].
You got to breathe in through your noise.
[Snorts].
Or if you can't do the [snorts], which is super cool, you can go
oink, oink, oink, oink.
So pigs... So oink or [snorts]. Now, this noise, in English, we say snort.
Sometimes when we laugh a lot, [snorts], we snort when we laugh. That's funny.
A little embarrassing for some people. I think it's pretty funny. Do you snort when you laugh?
Have you ever had milk? Mm-hmm. You drink the milk and you laugh, and it comes out your
nose? [Snorts]. Milk everywhere. Fun times.
This little guy, he's a mouse. Squeak, squeak. "Mice" in the plural, but "mouse" in the singular.
He's really, really, really, really small. "I'm a mouse and I like to eat cheese." So
this is adorable little mouse. Do you eat mice?
Ronnie's never eaten a mouse. Have you
eaten a mouse? Do you know what? If you barbequed me a mouse,
I would probably eat it, and it would say:
"Squeak, squeak, squeak, don't eat me, Ronnie. Squeak, squeak, squeak. I'm just a mouse. Give me some cheese."
I'm not going to eat him. He's too cute.
So, a cow says moo, a duck says quack, a dog says woof, a sheep says baaa or maaa,
a donkey says ee-aw, a pig says oink or [snorts] if you want, and a mouse says squeak, squeak.
Are you ready for some more? Are you ready? Yeah, okay. Let's go.
What's next? Oh, this guy, this guy. One of my favourites.
Ribbit. Can you do that? Ribbit.
It's taken me years to perfect that. This guy is called-ribbit-a frog.
He does not live in a barn. He lives in a pond or in water, and yeah, I've eaten him, too.
Damn, I just eat all the animals. That's all right. Ribbit. So, the name of this guy is a frog, and the
noise that he makes or she makes is ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. Now, I bet you you can jump
like a frog. I can jump like a frog. Ribbit, ribbit. Can you jump like a frog? Try it.
Get your Mom and Dad to do it, too. Come on, Mom and Dad, jump. Are you a frog family now?
Good.
Uh-oh, uh-oh. Hide, everyone, hide. It's a snake. Do you like snakes? Snakes are quite
silly, aren't they? This is a purple snake, and sometimes snakes are poisonous, so that
means they will bite you and you will die. Have you eaten snake? I haven't. Have I...?
Nope, I've never eaten snake. Maybe that's next for dinner for Ronnie is eat a snake.
Snakes make a hiss noise, so this guy goes ssss, ssss. When you are learning to speak
English, it's really, really, really important that you be able to say "ssss", and not "shh"
or "cr-lah", any other noises. So, ladies and gentlemen, when you say this sound: ssss,
your teeth, your mouth is a little bit open, and your tongue is putting the air through
so it's a really nice ssss, "s" sound. This will help you. One thing that's difficult
in English is the difference between the "ssss" sound and the "shh" sound. Now, when you want
to say this animal, the sheep, you got to make a mouth like this and go: "Shheep".
It's like you're telling someone to be quiet, so it's sheep. You don't want to say "seep",
you want to say "sheep". When you make the snake "s" it's like ssss, so you say "ssssnake".
Good.
Oh. Meow. Oh, uh-oh. What is it? Meow. Do you know what that is?
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
Oh, it's a cat. Meow. Do you have a cat in your house?
Does your cat have a name?
Meow.
I had a cat. I didn't eat it. I know you were thinking I ate it.
It ran away. So, his name was Fluffy, and when I was a child, I was five years old and the
cat just ran away. I don't know where he is, but the noise that a cat makes says meow.
So, a cat says meow. Meow. Now, maybe your cat has babies or one baby. A baby cat is
called a kitten, and a kitten, because it's not old enough to talk properly yet, says
mew, mew.
Okay, let's try. A cat says meow,
and a kitten says mew.
If cats and kittens
and lions and tigers and bears are really happy, they will do something called purr.
I don't know how to purr. [Purrs]. No, can't. Can you purr? [Purrs]. Oop, that's better.
[Purrs]. Oh, I'm purring. [Purrs and pants]. So when you touch a cat's back or when you
pet the cat, it goes [purrs]. It means:
"Yeah, I like that! Woo-hoo! Pet me more, ma."
Next up, oo, another cat, big cat, it's called a lion. It's got big hair. Lions make the
noise roar. They open their... Can you roar like a lion? Do it.
Mm, louder. Do it again.
Roar. Be a crazy lion. Roar. So lions make the noise and the sound of roar. Roar. But
you just can't say... You're never going to see a lion go roar. You got to roar like a lion.
Oh, one of my favourites, the good old rooster. Now, the rooster, you might look at this and go:
"Ronnie, that's clearly a chicken,"
and delicious, but a rooster's a boy chicken.
And the cool thing about boy chickens is they have mohawks right there. So they're punk rock chickens.
And roosters do not lay eggs, because they're boys. You see? So, a boy chicken
has a mohawk and it does not lay an egg. The noise it makes is one of my favourite. Maybe
you have a rooster near your house. Maybe you're sleeping and in the morning, very early
in the morning, you hear
cock-a-doodle-doo.
That was this guy. Roosters say cock-a-doodle-doo.
Your chance. Go. Ready? Cock-a-doodle-doo.
Cock-a-doodle-doo,
cock-a-doodle-doo. So,
roosters, boy chickens, cock-a-doodle-doo. Girl chickens... Girl chickens talk too, they
say bawk, bawk, bawk. Bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk.
I don't know how to spell that, though. You can practice. Girl chickens say bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk,
and boy chickens say cock-a-doodle-doo.
Cock-a-doodle-doo. It depends on how manly they are.
One of my favourite animals, never eaten it,
it's very, very difficult for me to see these
because I don't really live in a tree and hang out at nighttime. This is an owl. Maybe
you have seen lots of movies with owls. Now, owls are supposed to be really, really smart.
I don't know whether they're that smart. Hey, owl, are you smart?
"Yes." Oh, this guy's really smart, he told me. An owl makes a noise like hoot.
So if we write it in English, it
says hoot. But if you listen to it, it's almost like he's asking a question, he's saying:
"Who? Who?"
Who? You. "I am an owl," I say. Who? So it's like the English question: Who?
The last one, maaa, maaa, is a horse. Maaa. Horses are delicious. No.
I've eaten a horse, too. I've eaten horse in Japan. And the cool thing about a horse is they make a sound like
this [claps], that's a horse running. There's a horse, there's a horse. So the horses make
the noise, we call it a neigh, but when you do it with a sound it goes
neigh, neigh.
So, I want you right now think about this: Which one is your favourite animal?
Cow, duck, dog, sheep, pig, frog, snake, cat, kitten.
Today you have a very, very important thing
to do. You must act like this animal and only speak like this animal for five minutes.
I always pick cat because I think that we could have conversations.
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow (www.engvid.com),
meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, like a cat, meow.
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
Meow.