Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is lesson 468.. The title of today's lesson is the difference
between whine and moan. Yeah. This is one that students sometimes ask about because they are
both a painful sort of crying sounds, but there's a clear difference between the two of them. Okay.
If somebody wants a screenshot. Now's a good time. All right. Let's get right into it. If a person
or animal whines, he , she or it makes a long high-pitched sound or cry that is sad, unpleasant,
painful, complaining etc. So the one key thing... the difference is whine is always high-pitched and
moaning which we're going to get to is a low or a deep sound. Okay. Whining is often spoken
in a long nasal tone. All right. Nasal. Nasal means the sound kind of goes through your nose.
In English, I think like the "N" in onion is nasal. It's onion. So it's kind of like that. This
is what we mean by nasal as well which tends to be annoying. If an animal whines it also makes a long
drawn-out you know, it's kind of like stretched out , high pitch sound basically. All right,
So and then with these first couple of sentences. I'm going to try to imitate
whining. So if somebody is whining they probably say, why did you do that ? Like
that would be a typical whine. I told you not to do that. So it's definitely complaining,
annoying, sad-sounding. It's like that. Or somebody might say, I don't want to go there.
I am tired. This is, this is whining. Whining is really an annoying sound
and this is the way people will speak about it. You know, like somebody if they heard
that they might say, stop whining. It's really annoying because it is kind of an annoying sound.
All right. Let's continue. She's always whining about her boyfriend . Yeah. I know he doesn't
really love me. You know something like that. So this is your typical whining. The dog was whining
because he wanted to be walked. Yeah. If you ever had a dog , you might ( dog whining sounds).
You know kind of like that sort of sound. That would be kind of like a dog whine.
So again a high-pitched sound. All right. Let's continue. Let's look at the next part.
If someone moans, he, she ... he, he or she makes a long low sound to express pain, sadness or even
pleasure. All right. So again I'm going to try to copy moaning a little bit Like oh, oh, my head. Oh
it's lower. This headache is serious you know kind of like that, or you know, we might say, he
moaned in pain from a bad tooth. Like oh my tooth. Oh, oh. This is kind of like moaning.
All right. And now remember with moaning, we said you know to express pain, sadness, or pleasure. If
it's pleasure usually like in lovemaking sounds. Sometimes, we do say that people moan. So that's
kind of what that's that's the example we have here. That couple was making love-making sounds.
You could hear them moaning through the wall. You know, (moaning sounds) I don't want to go
too far with that. But that's that's kind of like it. All right. Anyway, So unless the last one. Oh
all right. Maybe you said maybe someone... Oh why did you have to leave me. You know he moaned. You
know this would be typical of the way we hear it. Anyway, I hope you got a better feel. Remember,
whining is high pitched and annoying. Moaning is a low or a deeper sound but both of them express
pain. Anyway, I hope it was very informative. I hope you got it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.