Have you ever wondered what a cat's meow sounds like in Japanese? How about the grumble of an empty stomach, the wail of a police car's siren or the crash of an ocean wave?
Japanese manga artists rely heavily upon onomatopoeia — sound-effect words — and this special entry in the award-winning "Kana de Manga/Kanji de Manga" language-learning series from Manga University is jam-packed with illustrated examples of those sounds in action.
Featuring nearly 100 Japanese onomatopoeia and their Englis...
A cute introduction to Japanese onomatopoeia
This is a pretty straight-foward little book: it's 110 pages of basic Japanese sound words. There are five categories of types of sounds the book covers; each onomatopoeia gets its own page, complete with what makes the sound, the sound in question (in both kana and romaji), a picture and story to remember the sound, as well as a bonus onomatopoeia or onomatopoeia fact.
The chapters given are:
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