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How frogs sound in french -
“Bonjour”
German is wrong. Its Quak.
I suspect that’s deliberate to make someone that speaks English and doesn’t know German still get the correct impression of what it actually sounds like, rather than get the spelling right
Kwaak is correct for Dutch. I suspect someone got Dutch and Deutsch mixed up.
Oh that would also make sense, yeah
As seen with Japanese. I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure they write it differently.
“Kerokero” is correct romanization. No problem there.
ケロケロ
Yeah. It sounds correct but the spelling is not known to me
Forgot the best one.
The French have a few examples of naming things the way they sound. Their word for bullfrog is the sound they make:
Ouaouaron
How is that pronounced? wow-wow-rohn?
Correct
A beautiful word we learned from the first nations, probably the Wendat.
I like croak way better as the English representation.
Yeah “ribbit” is a bit like bow wow. Someone find me a dog that says bow wow and I’ll find you an honest man in congress.
croak is the term for the sound, ribbit is the onomatopeia
Oddly enough croak is likely also onomatopoeia (imitative)
Kum Kum
If I must
As usual, the Germans are fucking wrong. That’s what ducks sound like dumb asses!
It’s just differently written but the sound is correct
There’s a Julia Donaldson - Axel Scheffler children’s book called “Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book” in which the sound a frog makes is “reddit”.
I dont know why hungarian is there but 💯🇭🇺HUNGARY MENTIONED🇭🇺💯 /s. Also yes we do say brek/brekk or brekeke
Bojler elado!
Gondolom nem lopott, vadi új?
Brekeke…
Keke…
Kek…
Quero-quero (kerokero), but in Brazil
Does this correlate to the sounds that the different species of frogs in those regions make?
Exactly what i was thinking, it would be like asking people what a bird sounds like and getting completely different results from different locales.
COQUI - Spanish
Interesting, I say CROAC. Probably there’s a lot of geographical variation.
That’s the name of a frog common to Puerto Rico, it makes a sound just like it’s name
Lithuanian is “kva kva”
Amphibians are so sick. My parents made a little fish pond like ten years ago and of all the cool things to visit/reside in it over the years the frogs are the coolest by far.
I just realised Finnish doesn’t have an onomatopoetic frog sound 🤔
I’m trying to think about the French one and nothing comes to mind either…
Hmm I thought we all know frogs go La De Da De Da?
