hi everyone and welcome back to the english danny channel i'm teacher john and i'm here to help
you become great at learning english so in today's video we're going to learn about um it's a special
kind of phenomenon in english and it's this very long word that you see here on the screen called
onomatopia okay and if you don't know what that is that's okay don't worry it's not a very difficult
concept and we're also going to learn about some onomatopoeia words that are very common in english
so stay tuned for the rest of the video right now you might be wondering what is onomatopoeia well
onomatopoeia is when a word phonetically meaning the spelling
okay the letters in the word imitates or resembles the sound that it is describing
okay so i'm you may be you still don't know what onomatopoeia is that's okay
let's see some examples of onomatopoeia let's take a look at this picture okay what is the cat doing
it's making a sound what kind of sound does this cat make
well in english the word is hiss okay hiss h-i-s-s and if you can see or if you can hear
and see this word is spelled so that the word it sounds very similar to the real sound
right it sounds like the same sound that the cat is making so let's look at the definition
hiss to make a sound like a long s usually out of anger or disapproval right like this cat is
hissing because it's angry our next word here it actually says it in the picture this is the sound
that a clock makes or an older analog clock makes all right and this word is tick-tock okay tock
tick tock tick tock is very similar to the actual the real sound that a clock makes right
tick tock tick tock okay so let's look at the uh the definition is used to describe the sound of
a large clock ticking okay so take talk sounds very similar to the real sound okay this is a
perfect example of onomatopoeia look at this this picture here batman is doing what what is he doing
to robin okay not just hit okay it's not the word hit it's a different word
called smack smack okay smack it's let's look at the definition first okay to hit somebody with
your open hand or an object okay especially as punishment all right so in this picture batman
is smacking robin okay with his open hand and the word smack sounds just like the actual
sound of hitting you know your desk okay or another person's face or your face that sound
is smack okay very very similar to the real sound so i think that uh there are a lot of onomatopoeia
words and sounds to learn all right so let's quickly talk about what kinds of words are
usually on a monopia okay well animal sounds in english are very often we use onomatopoeia
to describe the word and the sound so for example bark right bark is the sound that a dog makes meow
this is a sound that a cat makes chirp chirp is the sound that a bird makes moo
right for a cow and oink for a pig all of these animal sounds are onomatopoeia words
so let's also look at another kind of sound that also very often uses onomatopoeia
okay and this is machine sounds so sounds like honk right honk is the sound of your car horn
when you press it we have beep okay beep can be is a sound
made by computers and phones and cars and other machines vroom is the sound of an engine
bang is the sound of um maybe two objects hitting each other or a small explosion and clank is the
sound of two pieces of metal hitting each other as well alright everyone that's our video for today
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