Artist James Champan, a master of cute illustrations that show how words and emotions sound in different languages, will publish an illustrated guide to international onomatopoeia on the subject, ``How To Sneeze in Japanese''. The book will try to follow in the footsteps of the success of his debut album, Soundimals, and Champan raised the start-up funds for it through a Kickstarter campaign. Ka-ching!
The world is full of sounds. In every language, there are also plenty of words that describe these sounds (we call this professionally onomatopoeia). The sounds themselves do not differ, as the American rooster does not call differently than the Slovenian one, but the Americans say that it calls with "cock-a-doodle-doo", while Slovenians say that it is advertised with 'peanuts'. And while the Germans consider the dog to be advertised with "waf", we hear 'whore'. These are just two examples of how sounds are recorded differently around the world. If you would like to be a "polyglot" of onomatopoeia, then the book/textbook "How To Sneeze in Japanese" is perfect for you.
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Book "How To Sneeze in Japanese" contains 24 different sounds- including kissing, crying, coughing and sneezing- in more than 35 languages such as French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Slovak, Polish and others. On Kickstarter is available for (calculated) 13 euros, with some additions and autographed by the author and it's yours for $27.
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