Korean Animal Sounds

Animals in Korean don’t sound the same as animals in English. They supposedly speak a different language. Here’s a list of different Korean Animal Sounds

Take Spudgy for example. Spudgy is a mong-mong. That’s another word for dog in Korean. Mong-mong, supposedly, is the sound dogs make in Korea. No “arf arf” or “bow wow.” They go “mong mong.” For the life of us, we’ve never heard any dog make those sounds, no matter how many times we’ve listened to Spudgy. Anyhow, this got us thinking about other animal sounds in Korean, and got us thinking about animal sounds in other languages altogether. So Martina asked her students to describe the sounds animals make. Here’s the list we came up with:

Animal	English	Korean
Cats	Meow!	야옹 Yaong!
Ducks	Quack Quack!	꽥꽥 Guack Guack!
Cows	MoooOOOOooOO!	음메 uhMeeehhhh!
Sheep	Bahhhhh	으매 uhMeeeeh-eh-eh-eh
Horse	Neigghhghghghghh	이희잉 eeHeeheeheeeheeing
Dogs	Arf Arf! or Bow Wow!	멍멍 Mong Mong! or While While!
Frogs	Ribbit Ribbit	개골개골 Gaykul gaykul!
Pigs	Oink Oink!	꿀꿀 Gul gul!
Owls	Hoot. Hoot.	부엉부엉 Buweong! Buweong!
Bees	BzzzZZZZzzzzZZ!	윙 Wiiiiiiiing!
Lions	ROAR!	어흥 Eoh hung! Eoh hung!
Bears and Dinosaurs	ROOOOOAAAARRRR!	으르랑 Uh reuh wrong!
Chickens	Coka! Coka co!	꼬끼오 Ko ki oh! Ko ki oh!

We couldn’t think of any more to ask Martina’s students. If there’s any that we missed, please tell us! Oh, and if you haven’t seen this lovely button on the right here by now, check it out! Also, thanks to JB and Annie from [닉쑤] Enjoy Your Happy Life~* for the Korean subtitle translations! This one must have been terrible to translate.

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Cats, cute, dogs, Korean Language, Spudgy

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