Practice your onomatopoeia~!

Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of posting last month but I was busy traveling. Today we will look at onomatopoeia are words that are based on sounds. For example, squeak is the sound of a rusty door hinge and boom is the sound of a bomb exploding.

This is a cute funny video that starts of listing a bunch of English onomatopoeia for animals and then asks the question "What does the fox say?" because it is true in English no one seems to know what sound a fox makes... maybe because they're so quiet?

Enjoy the video!




A cow goes moo moo.

A bird goes tweet tweet. (which is where the word twitter comes from)

A dog goes woof woof or bow wow.

A cat goes meow meow.

A pig goes oink oink.

A chicken goes cluck cluck.

A duck goes quack quack.

Have a nice day,

Phil

yummy vs yucky

Hey everyone, I haven't posted an opposites lesson in awhile and I thought of a good pair people should know.

YUMMY vs YUCKY

Both of these are KID's English. Children use them when talking about food, when adult's use them it sounds kind of cute so men tend not to use these words so much (unless they are talking to kids).

Yummy means delicious, the food or drink tastes great. In Japanese, you'd say おいしい.

This cake is delicious~!

This cake is yummy!

このケーキはおいしいよ！

These sentences all have the same meaning but yummy sounds cuter more childish.

Yucky means something tastes bad or is digusting/gross. It is usually used to talk about food/drinks but can also be used to talk about things. It's almost never used by adults... In Japanese, when talking about food you'd say まずい. Adults might use the interjection "Yuck!" which is where yucky comes from (add y to make a noun an adjective).

A: Try this milk...

B: YUCK! Why did you ask me to drink that? It's gone bad!

A: I just wanted to double check.

B: I could have smelled it! I didn't have to drink it. Gross.

A: Sorry.

Here's an example using yucky:

Mother: Eat your natto.

Kid: Natto's yucky! No!

Mother: It's healthy, just try some...

Kid: Yuck~! No more it's yucky >_<

Have a good week,

Phil

Who cut the cheese?

Hey everyone, I was teaching an English lesson about cooking and it specified you should use the verb slice with the noun cheese.

This is because cut the cheese is an idiom in kid's English!

It means to fart. 放屁 (ほうひ)

So when someone says:

I am cutting the cheese.

Native speakers immediately think:

I am farting.

And will laugh or giggle.

The most common usage of this idiom among kids is the question:

Who cut the cheese?

meaning

Who farted?

Have a nice Sunday, I hope you enjoyed this funny little lesson,

Phil