I teach my child English: It's Fun Time! / English for kids

How to make learning English more fun? Along with rhyming and repetition, onomatopoeia1 is a great help. Onomatopoeia is a rather complicated term for a sound word that nearly any toddler2 can master3 (What does the dog say? “Woof! Woof”). Animal sounds are almost always examples of onomatopoeia (see English4U #11(71) 2008). You name an action by imitating the sound associated with it. One example of onomatopoeia would be to say, “The bees buzz angrily when their hive is disturbed.” My idea was to use an onomatopoetic word not as a verb but as an imitating sound to make my play with my child more fun. For example “Tick-tock goes the clock.”

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