A lesson in Japanese:
Today during lunch all of a sudden one of the four year old boys started yelling frantically at me. Of course I was concerned because I could not think of anything I had done to provoke him and nothing seemed to be wrong with him. I pulled another teacher over and he started laughing. It turns out that he was just pretending to be a lion. Animal noises are completely different in Japanese and I had no clue that "Gaooo, Gaooo" is the same as "Rawr, Rawr".
Another one that's really different is the noise that a pig makes. In English it's, "Oink, Oink" and in Japanese it's "Boo, Boo"!
I was a little embarrassed at first but at the same time really relieved that I wasn't getting yelled at!
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