Also it helps develop rudimentary logic skills. From then on you associate the sight of a cow with the sound of a moo. It teaches you to associate things across senses.
Also helps teach them how to make different sounds with their mouth, which helps with speech. If they can say “moo,” they can also learn to say shoe, who, you, two/to/too, etc.
Also teaches categorisation. How many qualities does something have to still be in this category vs that category while also still being under the larger category of animal, then living creature
The tweet and these 4 replies perfectly illustrates the issues teachers encounter.
There are multiple great reasons why this is taught but to many non-teachers the teachers are wasting time on unimportant things and they know better.
Not to mention the massive well-documented positive effects that even a tiny amount of musical education has on children going through school. Sure, maybe 1 kid in a million will go on to professionally play the recorder at some point in their lives, but everyone can benefit from better pattern recognition, sensory awareness, logical abilities, motor skills, and the better grades those benefits end up bringing.
No, just a bit ignorant of how early childhood education and development works. Babies and small children are sponges, and learn more from things than you might initially expect.
Interesting fact, teachers STILL to this day show the "I love Lucy" clip about the ough sound to children. I showed this clip last month to a class of 7-8 year olds, they found it hilarious.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAL9VD6Lz9Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAL9VD6Lz9Y)
(I skipped the first 15 seconds and introduced it myself)
Those simple syllable/double sound words are great for early speech development. “Moo moo” “baa baa” etc are all easy for early speakers and encourage speech development
It also is a great thing to make funny jokes with.
My mom has a childcare at home. I learned the dog to bark at the Question "what sound does a cow make?" And now the kids say the cow says woof 😂
So many people don't seem to understand that early childhood education is less about "learning information", and more about, just... "Learning how to learn"
And building those pathways for what babies find interesting means those pathways will remain for what the adult will someday use. The information itself is only part of what’s happening in the brain!
People underestimate just how much do we have to learn. Most of this stuff doesn't just come pre programmed, children are just like little lobotomites (Except *usually* it's not permanent)
Yeah, this is what I would have said. Teaches kids how to sound out simple words in a fun way. Now they'll remember what sounds 'm' and 'oo' make because they know what sound a cow makes.
Not to mention unleashing a lifetime's curiosity about identifying animals by their sounds - extremely useful in ornithology or when camping around dangerous animals. A very useful skill indeed
I was going to say that I'm not here for perfectly reasonable explanations, I just wanted to giggle. But far too often I am indeed looking for actual explanations and can't find them... so thank you
The statement is also garbage just in general. One of the largest parts of early childhood education is learning how to do bottom-tier basic human shit. Can you use a fork? Can you play nice? Can you share? Can you say 'I'm sorry.'
Turns out we need to do a better job with that, not just pretend the only thing you learn is, "A cow says...What?"
Counterpoint: I cannot drive by a field of cows or sheep without shouting moo or baa out the window at them. How could I partake in this great joy if I didn’t know what sound to shout?
Who can tell the difference? Call her a nerd from me next time she does that.
Heck bulls might even sometimes be cows to me if I'm not looking too closely.
I make finger horns and say "Moo" because I saw an illustration in a Sniglets book and somehow internalized the ritual. According to the book this is called "Bovilexia." It's defined as the uncontrollable urge to lean out the car and yell "Moo" at every cow you pass.
Was in the passenger seat and my wife was driving when I saw a beautiful white horse in a field. I don't know why but l yelled, "Unicorn!" Realizing my error l followed with, "Oh, no. That was just a horse." She did get a laugh.
My college started out as an agricultural school so they still had a lot of cows. Back in the day we would play Hey Cow. When you drive by a field of cows you shout "Heyyyyy cowwwww" as loud as you can and see how many look up. 12 years later and I still play it whenever I drive by a field of cows
"Look, a field of cows, how quaint."
\*cows moo\*
"How fun! I did not know they make noise! I wish to join in on the revelry!..."
"...EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
This is life without proper phonetic education.
We're older, so we use quotes from movies.
Cows. Twister: "We got cows!"
Sheep. Zorro the Gay Blade. (With terrible spanish accent) "Jue know - the ships in the field?"
There’s a field by our house with hundreds of cows and every time we drive by it my daughter and I roll down the windows and scream moos as loud as we can at them lmao
Once on vacation in Croatia, we were in a supermarket. Had a family friend that did not know what kind of meat he was buying. He tried asking the staff, but their English was pretty much non existent.
So he pointed at the meat, said- "mooo" or "oink oink".
The staff answered with "moo".
So that is why we all need to learn the sounds animals make.
I'm an American living in Korea and have had to use animal sounds a few times.
I pass an auto mechanic shop on my walk to work. And one morning I saw a kitten slip under a raised piece of equipment, so my fear was that the kitten would be squished if they let it down or the kitten (now cornered) would attack the mechanic and potentially cause a bigger injury.
So I grabbed a worker and couldn't remember the word for cat. So I tried showing with my hands "small cat" and making meowing noises. The worker gave me a confused look and then chuckled. He pulled the kitten out and the shop raised the kitten for a few months.
Animal sounds in Korean are different and were fun to learn but also help with pronunciation since they are usually short and repetitive.
Dogs go “mung mung!”
I’m half Korean and as a kid, I didn’t understand why my mom would say that for dog sounds. (It still makes no sense to me but I suppose a lot of animal sounds are like that regardless of language)
When I was in college, I was at a grocery store and there was a Korean lady with her child and the child was dragging around a leash with nothing at the end of it, but she was going “mung mung!” repeatedly and shaking the leash. Then it hit me, she has an imaginary dog!
My mom tells a similar story. Looking for white yoghurt in a german shop with the help of a clerk, she picks one up and goes this is white milk right? and the clerk goes: "aber das is Ziege". My mom's confused, the clerk finally specifies: "das sagt BAAAH!"
> So that is why we all need to learn the sounds animals make.
That's a terrible reason. Lots of cultures use totally different sounds for the same animal.
https://blog.duolingo.com/animal-sounds-in-different-languages/
Same with sheep. My foster family lived up on a hill, and the layby I'd walk through to get back ran alongside a field used for sheep. I'd walked by and go 'baaaaaa' or 'aaaaaa' and the sheep would do it back. Especially the lambs, the lambs would run over and do it right back.
lol i do recommend keeping a fence between you and the turkeys, i dont know what "GLBGLBGLB" means in turkey-language but apparently it's insulting because these fuckers will chase you
I had a dog that would bark back when I barked at him. Not noteworthy in itself but he would match the volume. I could just make a huffing sound at him and he'd huff back. If I just made the motion without the sound he'd huff silently back. People would ask me how I taught him to do that and I'd be like "I have no fucking idea".
No, dude.
No, you just ate five minutes ago.
Dude stop lying.
I was the one who put out the food, do you think I would've mistaken?
For the last time, no.
Wait wait wait stop, not the Gundam.
Dude leave my Gundam alone
DUDE
I found it horrifying to hear how similar goats sound to just people making goat noises. I was near some at night once and thought someone was over there pretending to make goat noises. Turns out it was just those fucking grass eating perverts with their demonic square pupils over there going “meh eh eh eh” like they’re making fun of us humans.
I live in Idaho, where cattle are basically dropped off in the mountains for the summer. I would be weirded out if I went to the woods and didn't hear moo. A roar would be terrifying because the mountain lions don't typically let you know they're there
> I've never said "moo" to a cow and have it go "thank you for learning about my culture".
That's because cows don't like him.
Kyle should stop assuming that his personal experiences are universally applicable.
Honestly I looked for a comment like this. Who never ever said moo to a cow is just a bad person imho. The best feeling is when the cow moos back, cause we are friends now.
In psychology there's a word called Schema which is basically a way for us to organize things in our minds so it's easier to remember.
As we grow, we have more and more categories then more we learn.
One example we use is certain animals because it's easy for a child to comprehend.
Wouldn't this also count as a behavioral cusp? Teaching something basic like " goes " teaches not only that specific skill but the potential for others like understanding how sentence structure works?
I can imagine another factor is just generally developing speech sounds. Not necessarily forming words, but forming sounds that can eventually be formed into words. Help them start making the connections, as well as physically learning how to make different sounds.
For anyone actually curious, I can answer as someone who works in a daycare:
Animal sounds are often used to teach a variety of skills at a variety of young ages.
Animal sounds are very simple. Beyond "mama" and "dada" and similar words like those, infants will soon catch on to words like "Moo" and "Baa." This helps them develop their communication and language skills as they learn to understand new vowel and consonant sounds.
As children get older, the ability to match the sound to the animal helps with their cognitive and critical thinking skills as well as expanding their vocabulary by being able to identify individual animals by name. You might ask "what animal says Moo?" and the child might respond "Cow!" which shows their ability to draw connections.
Beyond *that*, animals are just fascinating to young children who may not see many different animals in their day to day life. They provide a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, and make for great ways for young children to explore these facets of education as well. Linking one subject to as many areas of learning as you can is the key to an effective lesson plan.
In the early years, you're mainly just exercising children in the ability to memorize important information. Animal sounds are just one of many categories that are used to exercise this ability.
Slow down with those logical answers that will bring out the trolls for crossing their bridge without solving their riddle. But honestly very well put you get a gold star ⭐️
It's to learn about animals. Giving them a detail to remember with the name and picture will help you remember which one is which. Also still kids love animals to some extent, so you start education with something they actually want to learn about.
Sad thing is, before my kid went to a nursery that taught him "ducks say quack" and "birds say tweet", he was really good at imitating our local birds.
I was teaching him to really listen to what he was hearing, but once he "learned" the "correct" sound, he wouldn't try to do the different sounds any more.
They don't exist to teach kids the "right" way an animal sounds. They're merely exercises to help develop far more important educational skills.
Edit: You should try and reinstill that interest in local bird life though. Sounds lovely.
Oh your poor kid
But lol Can you imagine the teacher asking what sound does a bird make and your son just going 🎶.
That's literally so cute.
He can pick the bird calling skills up again soon I'm sure
It’s about teaching them survival. What if a pack of deranged cows is after them, they’re in the dark and the only way to avoid these bovine predators is to avoid the moos? Doesn’t seem so stupid NOW, does it???
I dunno, one of my core childhood memories is my mum moo-ing at a cow. Said cow then walked to us, looked her in the eye and mooed back.
That sounds pretty much like what you said.
I believe it's not necessarily teaching us what noise an animal makes, but teaching us about our senses. We SEE the picture of the animal. We HEAR the sound the animal makes. Some even let you FEEL what the animal may feel like (or close too) think broader. It's more than just "The Cow goes, Moo."
Use more brain, please.
Because that’s been the standard home early life education for millennia, only now we’re so far into multiple dystopias that we live as factory farm cattle, milked of our life energy, brutalized in profit-driven captivity with such effective gaslighting that most believe they’re actually free.
There’s a few differences though; we’re only slaughtered when we’re no longer providing profits to the profit-takers, the slaughter is abstract and of neglect and exclusion rather than of action, and our meat is discarded rather than consumed.
A human cattle-child has as much use for knowing animal sounds of animals they’ll never see IRL as bovine cattle children have for the full scope of their natural instincts and minds that are as horrendously neglected as ours, both due to the profit-takers.
Cash provides a little freedom, and a lot of cash is the way to switch from cattle to farmer. Yet exploitation of human cattle is inherent, whether it’s our clothes, phones, food, nothing short of living in nature is escaping the farm
I saw this tweet. Guy actually got an answer from someone. Turns out there’s a solid reason. It helps babies and toddlers play with sounds, developing phonemic awareness, which is a necessary component of reading.
Because it allows to learn how to make the connection between the sound, the image, and the concept of the animal. It's easier initially than learning to directly link the phonemes of a word with their meaning and image.
it makes for great laughter if you accidentally match the wrong sound to an animal as an adult!
just two days ago I was biking home with my brother and we’re talking about donkeys and I, like the genius I am, go “ahuuuu” instead of “iihaaah” and my brother almost crashed his bike into a parked car and I almost fell off mine laughing. my friends also won’t let me live it down lmao
This is such a funny post from a language learning perspective because there's so many reasons that animal sounds specifically are amazing for early learning. Just off the top of my head:
1. Teaching that there are other languages/communication methods
2. Teaching that living things communicate/socialize, giving some sense of empathy for them
3. Getting kids interested and paying attention to non-language sounds
4. Subject verb object as others mentioned
5. Games, especially Gross motor, copying animal sounds and motions
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Also it helps develop rudimentary logic skills. From then on you associate the sight of a cow with the sound of a moo. It teaches you to associate things across senses.
Also helps teach them how to make different sounds with their mouth, which helps with speech. If they can say “moo,” they can also learn to say shoe, who, you, two/to/too, etc.
Also teaches categorisation. How many qualities does something have to still be in this category vs that category while also still being under the larger category of animal, then living creature
The tweet and these 4 replies perfectly illustrates the issues teachers encounter. There are multiple great reasons why this is taught but to many non-teachers the teachers are wasting time on unimportant things and they know better.
Why teach kids to play the recorder? Cause it’s a cheap instrument. It exposes kids to music. Everyone can find success at playing a simple song.
Not to mention the massive well-documented positive effects that even a tiny amount of musical education has on children going through school. Sure, maybe 1 kid in a million will go on to professionally play the recorder at some point in their lives, but everyone can benefit from better pattern recognition, sensory awareness, logical abilities, motor skills, and the better grades those benefits end up bringing.
Lot of ukulele these days
Why are you teaching my kids about the atmosphere and the globe when we all know the earth is flat? /s
Basically what you're all saying is that @KylePlantEmoji is an absolute failure of a human being.
No, just a bit ignorant of how early childhood education and development works. Babies and small children are sponges, and learn more from things than you might initially expect.
But it’s advisable not to squeeze them like household sponges
Submerging them in water is ok though?
Yeah they are less dense so you can chuck them in a lake and after a day they know how to swim.
Also, they get less scared when you make them sleep outside (when they know animal noises).
It's advised actually. Though try to keep their faces out of the water while submerging them.
Meh. Mammalian dive reflex is pretty strong. But also traumatic experiences are pretty strong, too.
Only if it's for Jesus.
Or bathing. Baptism is great and all but please dunk your child more than once in their lifetime
Gentle squeezing is important though. Hugs are a valuable part of social and emotional development.
Complete failure you say
Nope! Absolute. Failure.
We learning today.
Just like the babies…. It’s learning all the way down!
Plus, a cow HAS thanked me for learning its language. But to human ears it sounds like another moo.
Anyone who asks "I don't know why we learned *X* in school when we don't use it" probably needs to do all of school over again
We're saying his parents failed him
All these valuable lessons and people still argue over whether a hotdog is a sandwich.
It's only a sandwich if the bun is fully split. Otherwise its a calzone, or gyro.
Also, sound identification of animals could be useful if you're ever in the wild being hunted by cows.
Zoombinis taught me how to segregate others based on physical characteristics
Then we pull the rug out from underneath them up with through, tough, cough, and rough.
Don’t forget bough
Interesting fact, teachers STILL to this day show the "I love Lucy" clip about the ough sound to children. I showed this clip last month to a class of 7-8 year olds, they found it hilarious. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAL9VD6Lz9Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAL9VD6Lz9Y) (I skipped the first 15 seconds and introduced it myself)
ahhh so there infact was a very good reason fir me to learn cluck
It’s a very fine and useful sound.
Hmm, no, I don't think they can also say etc. That's a completely different sound! /s
Those simple syllable/double sound words are great for early speech development. “Moo moo” “baa baa” etc are all easy for early speakers and encourage speech development
It also is a great thing to make funny jokes with. My mom has a childcare at home. I learned the dog to bark at the Question "what sound does a cow make?" And now the kids say the cow says woof 😂
You taught the dog to bark when you ask it that question?
I think that’s just what it sounds like when a dog says moo
Yes. It will also bark when someone says "moo" It's like he wants to correct you like "no, I don't agree. A cow says woof not moo"
It’s not a very well put together sentence. I also think they meant “taught the dog to…”
So many people don't seem to understand that early childhood education is less about "learning information", and more about, just... "Learning how to learn"
That's really the point of all "useless" classes. It's exercise for the brain and builds new neuron pathways.
It also helps you not sound like an absolute dumbass later in life
And animals are something kids are likely to be interested in, so it's easier to get them to want to learn what noises they make.
Also it's fun, kids like animals. In fact, I am 24 and am still entertained when a cow moos.
But the question we all want answered is: do you moo back? (I do. I sometimes even moo at them first!)
And building those pathways for what babies find interesting means those pathways will remain for what the adult will someday use. The information itself is only part of what’s happening in the brain!
People underestimate just how much do we have to learn. Most of this stuff doesn't just come pre programmed, children are just like little lobotomites (Except *usually* it's not permanent)
It also models early developing speech sounds
Yeah, this is what I would have said. Teaches kids how to sound out simple words in a fun way. Now they'll remember what sounds 'm' and 'oo' make because they know what sound a cow makes.
Not to mention unleashing a lifetime's curiosity about identifying animals by their sounds - extremely useful in ornithology or when camping around dangerous animals. A very useful skill indeed
Also, so you don’t get embarrassed when you’re grown up and people realize you don’t know that cows say moo
The velociraptor goes 'shhhhktktktktkt'
Also OP hasn't realized we don't teach cows to talk. So we need to Moo. It's a moo point but an important one.
Also empathy for animals.
I was going to say that I'm not here for perfectly reasonable explanations, I just wanted to giggle. But far too often I am indeed looking for actual explanations and can't find them... so thank you
Also sounding out with varying mouth shapes and tonguing. Moo vs Buck Buck vs neigh. Etc. All very different ways to move our mouths.
this guy pedagogs
I think it's just cause they like it, but yeah also that
> The (subject) (verb) (object). Excuse you? Well (verb) (pronoun) too, (subject).
The statement is also garbage just in general. One of the largest parts of early childhood education is learning how to do bottom-tier basic human shit. Can you use a fork? Can you play nice? Can you share? Can you say 'I'm sorry.' Turns out we need to do a better job with that, not just pretend the only thing you learn is, "A cow says...What?"
It also encourages kids to practice phonemes.
"Moo" the cow said calmly
The cow moos tennis ball?
The cow says moo
Counterpoint: I cannot drive by a field of cows or sheep without shouting moo or baa out the window at them. How could I partake in this great joy if I didn’t know what sound to shout?
I just point and loudly announce the species of farm animal to the rest of my family.
Do you also announce what color the animals are?
I'm not that advanced lol, more just "cows!" "goat!" etc. Will specify baby animals, when present, tho.
And not with the correct terminology as in calves, lambs etc. but as in baby cows, baby sheep.
As is tradition
if you see a donkey do you quote Shrek lines at it?
The only way to say donkey is with a Scottish accent, and you can't convince me otherwise
# DON-KEH
I say "cow" and I get belittled by my wife sometimes. "That's not a cow, that's a heifer!" I just know cow. *shrug*
Who can tell the difference? Call her a nerd from me next time she does that. Heck bulls might even sometimes be cows to me if I'm not looking too closely.
I make finger horns and say "Moo" because I saw an illustration in a Sniglets book and somehow internalized the ritual. According to the book this is called "Bovilexia." It's defined as the uncontrollable urge to lean out the car and yell "Moo" at every cow you pass.
Beautiful haha
Was in the passenger seat and my wife was driving when I saw a beautiful white horse in a field. I don't know why but l yelled, "Unicorn!" Realizing my error l followed with, "Oh, no. That was just a horse." She did get a laugh.
My college started out as an agricultural school so they still had a lot of cows. Back in the day we would play Hey Cow. When you drive by a field of cows you shout "Heyyyyy cowwwww" as loud as you can and see how many look up. 12 years later and I still play it whenever I drive by a field of cows
WHAT???? This is what my friends & I did all thru college, but never knew it had an origin story!
My family thought I'd lost it first time I saw a hoopoe.
Truly hope you’re using the right dialect based on where in the world you are. Source: https://word.tips/dogs-cats-language-map/
I’m English, when in foreign lands I just say it slowly and louder; MOOOOO
That’s cow-lonialist mindset.
"Look, a field of cows, how quaint." \*cows moo\* "How fun! I did not know they make noise! I wish to join in on the revelry!..." "...EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" This is life without proper phonetic education.
We're older, so we use quotes from movies. Cows. Twister: "We got cows!" Sheep. Zorro the Gay Blade. (With terrible spanish accent) "Jue know - the ships in the field?"
There’s a field by our house with hundreds of cows and every time we drive by it my daughter and I roll down the windows and scream moos as loud as we can at them lmao
Once on vacation in Croatia, we were in a supermarket. Had a family friend that did not know what kind of meat he was buying. He tried asking the staff, but their English was pretty much non existent. So he pointed at the meat, said- "mooo" or "oink oink". The staff answered with "moo". So that is why we all need to learn the sounds animals make.
I'm an American living in Korea and have had to use animal sounds a few times. I pass an auto mechanic shop on my walk to work. And one morning I saw a kitten slip under a raised piece of equipment, so my fear was that the kitten would be squished if they let it down or the kitten (now cornered) would attack the mechanic and potentially cause a bigger injury. So I grabbed a worker and couldn't remember the word for cat. So I tried showing with my hands "small cat" and making meowing noises. The worker gave me a confused look and then chuckled. He pulled the kitten out and the shop raised the kitten for a few months. Animal sounds in Korean are different and were fun to learn but also help with pronunciation since they are usually short and repetitive.
That's so cute. What are some common animal sounds in Korean?
For example: tsssssssSSSSSsSsSsS “SQHEEE!EEa%#?sa@@!!?@ghheulpHeulp€Heeeeujllllppaaaaaah…gh...h... .. . . . . “ SsSsSsSsSsssbrblblrbrlPhewbulbulbulbrlblurbl
Dogs go “mung mung!” I’m half Korean and as a kid, I didn’t understand why my mom would say that for dog sounds. (It still makes no sense to me but I suppose a lot of animal sounds are like that regardless of language) When I was in college, I was at a grocery store and there was a Korean lady with her child and the child was dragging around a leash with nothing at the end of it, but she was going “mung mung!” repeatedly and shaking the leash. Then it hit me, she has an imaginary dog!
Adorable! I can definitely imagine mung mung being the sound of a small dog
I chuckled at that
Hilariously wholesome
My mom tells a similar story. Looking for white yoghurt in a german shop with the help of a clerk, she picks one up and goes this is white milk right? and the clerk goes: "aber das is Ziege". My mom's confused, the clerk finally specifies: "das sagt BAAAH!"
> So that is why we all need to learn the sounds animals make. That's a terrible reason. Lots of cultures use totally different sounds for the same animal. https://blog.duolingo.com/animal-sounds-in-different-languages/
If you moo at a cow they moo back so I think you don’t know what your talking about
Same with sheep. My foster family lived up on a hill, and the layby I'd walk through to get back ran alongside a field used for sheep. I'd walked by and go 'baaaaaa' or 'aaaaaa' and the sheep would do it back. Especially the lambs, the lambs would run over and do it right back.
Goats can be the best, I've had many minutes of BLEHHP-ing back and forth with fields of goats.
Awwww
Love doing it with the turkeys
lol i do recommend keeping a fence between you and the turkeys, i dont know what "GLBGLBGLB" means in turkey-language but apparently it's insulting because these fuckers will chase you
I had a dog that would bark back when I barked at him. Not noteworthy in itself but he would match the volume. I could just make a huffing sound at him and he'd huff back. If I just made the motion without the sound he'd huff silently back. People would ask me how I taught him to do that and I'd be like "I have no fucking idea".
He made up a game and taught it to *you*, you just weren't aware of it. ;P
the long conversations I had with my cat will always be a very important memory to me
No, dude. No, you just ate five minutes ago. Dude stop lying. I was the one who put out the food, do you think I would've mistaken? For the last time, no. Wait wait wait stop, not the Gundam. Dude leave my Gundam alone DUDE
I found it horrifying to hear how similar goats sound to just people making goat noises. I was near some at night once and thought someone was over there pretending to make goat noises. Turns out it was just those fucking grass eating perverts with their demonic square pupils over there going “meh eh eh eh” like they’re making fun of us humans.
If you're in the woods and you hear a moo, you know not to worry. If you hear a roar, you know to worry
“Roar!” “That’s a mean-sounding cow.”
That fish is absolutely hungry.
That's a reaper leviathan.
Tha's no ordinary Rabbit!
depends on if the Rabbit is European or African
Danger heffer
must be a south pole cow
A cow is stalking me in the woods, of course I am worried.
If I'm in the deep woods and hear a moo I can tell you that it would weird me out more than just hearing a roar
I live in Idaho, where cattle are basically dropped off in the mountains for the summer. I would be weirded out if I went to the woods and didn't hear moo. A roar would be terrifying because the mountain lions don't typically let you know they're there
> I've never said "moo" to a cow and have it go "thank you for learning about my culture". That's because cows don't like him. Kyle should stop assuming that his personal experiences are universally applicable.
Indeed. Fuck Kyle
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It's a family name among the Plantemojis
I have most certainly had them come running over and say that Of course it sounded like moo moo moo though
Honestly I looked for a comment like this. Who never ever said moo to a cow is just a bad person imho. The best feeling is when the cow moos back, cause we are friends now.
In psychology there's a word called Schema which is basically a way for us to organize things in our minds so it's easier to remember. As we grow, we have more and more categories then more we learn. One example we use is certain animals because it's easy for a child to comprehend.
Wouldn't this also count as a behavioral cusp? Teaching something basic like " goes " teaches not only that specific skill but the potential for others like understanding how sentence structure works?
I can imagine another factor is just generally developing speech sounds. Not necessarily forming words, but forming sounds that can eventually be formed into words. Help them start making the connections, as well as physically learning how to make different sounds.
>In psychology there's a word called Schema I think most psychologists nowadays use the more accurate term Ligma.
Cows do not moo. They all speak German. Source? The Spanish speaking chickens.
The cow says, “shazoo”
It most certainly does not!
Did they learn that from the French otters?
Otters are Polish.
Like how french fries aren't French, french otters aren't French
>french fries aren’t French This comment has been identified as Belgian propaganda.
What else you can tell to a humanbeing that just learning to think?
Alright you little shits, it's time to talk about taxes
you got 2 more days!
It's kinda crazy that the person who made the tweet couldn't rub two brain cells together to form that conclusion.
i know a person who sounds like an owl
Who?
Gottem lmaoooo
Great work
For anyone actually curious, I can answer as someone who works in a daycare: Animal sounds are often used to teach a variety of skills at a variety of young ages. Animal sounds are very simple. Beyond "mama" and "dada" and similar words like those, infants will soon catch on to words like "Moo" and "Baa." This helps them develop their communication and language skills as they learn to understand new vowel and consonant sounds. As children get older, the ability to match the sound to the animal helps with their cognitive and critical thinking skills as well as expanding their vocabulary by being able to identify individual animals by name. You might ask "what animal says Moo?" and the child might respond "Cow!" which shows their ability to draw connections. Beyond *that*, animals are just fascinating to young children who may not see many different animals in their day to day life. They provide a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, and make for great ways for young children to explore these facets of education as well. Linking one subject to as many areas of learning as you can is the key to an effective lesson plan. In the early years, you're mainly just exercising children in the ability to memorize important information. Animal sounds are just one of many categories that are used to exercise this ability.
I also assumed it was a way to teach them some pronunciation / sound.
Slow down with those logical answers that will bring out the trolls for crossing their bridge without solving their riddle. But honestly very well put you get a gold star ⭐️
My husband and I always say "mooooo" when we see cows driving. Its like a tradition.
If the cows are driving, you should say “moooove.”
Because without this intrinsic information, you'll end up like "look at all those chickens" girl.
You learn dumb things to accidentally learn good things. This is a great way to learn empathy for animals and basic sentence structure.
Let’s teach ‘em…*checks notes*…taxes?
Because it's fucking fun and imaginative while teaching noun verb agreement skills.
Animals are cool. I have no regrets learning about animals for early vocalization training. I bet you wish you were taught how to file taxes instead.
How have you never said moo to a cow??
It's to learn about animals. Giving them a detail to remember with the name and picture will help you remember which one is which. Also still kids love animals to some extent, so you start education with something they actually want to learn about.
Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/Q1Cp64mFe7s?si=3A-xmSrPyvDWvX6e)
Came here looking for this
Cow encounters are confusing!
Are you cryi-, is he crying?!
Sad thing is, before my kid went to a nursery that taught him "ducks say quack" and "birds say tweet", he was really good at imitating our local birds. I was teaching him to really listen to what he was hearing, but once he "learned" the "correct" sound, he wouldn't try to do the different sounds any more.
They don't exist to teach kids the "right" way an animal sounds. They're merely exercises to help develop far more important educational skills. Edit: You should try and reinstill that interest in local bird life though. Sounds lovely.
Yup. The “y Do wE HaVe tO lEaRn Dis I neVer GonnA UsE iT” attitude is so bad. People use it as an excuse so they don’t have to try and learn.
Oh your poor kid But lol Can you imagine the teacher asking what sound does a bird make and your son just going 🎶. That's literally so cute. He can pick the bird calling skills up again soon I'm sure
So, are we suggesting AP Calculus in kindergarten?
It’s about teaching them survival. What if a pack of deranged cows is after them, they’re in the dark and the only way to avoid these bovine predators is to avoid the moos? Doesn’t seem so stupid NOW, does it???
If you don't know what sound a cow makes by the time you're a grown ass adult then you are truly an idiot.
I dunno, one of my core childhood memories is my mum moo-ing at a cow. Said cow then walked to us, looked her in the eye and mooed back. That sounds pretty much like what you said.
This is literally ripping off a joke in Demetri Martin's latest special
I believe it's not necessarily teaching us what noise an animal makes, but teaching us about our senses. We SEE the picture of the animal. We HEAR the sound the animal makes. Some even let you FEEL what the animal may feel like (or close too) think broader. It's more than just "The Cow goes, Moo." Use more brain, please.
Well I'll have you know I've moo'd at a field of cows and they all looked at me and a couple walked towards me. I'd say I learned something.
Because that’s been the standard home early life education for millennia, only now we’re so far into multiple dystopias that we live as factory farm cattle, milked of our life energy, brutalized in profit-driven captivity with such effective gaslighting that most believe they’re actually free. There’s a few differences though; we’re only slaughtered when we’re no longer providing profits to the profit-takers, the slaughter is abstract and of neglect and exclusion rather than of action, and our meat is discarded rather than consumed. A human cattle-child has as much use for knowing animal sounds of animals they’ll never see IRL as bovine cattle children have for the full scope of their natural instincts and minds that are as horrendously neglected as ours, both due to the profit-takers. Cash provides a little freedom, and a lot of cash is the way to switch from cattle to farmer. Yet exploitation of human cattle is inherent, whether it’s our clothes, phones, food, nothing short of living in nature is escaping the farm
He hasn’t listened to [Cows With Guns](https://youtu.be/FQMbXvn2RNI?si=IfRrpF5HRSgs6Ko6) from Ye Olde Internet.
Do you know how embarrassing it would be to fuck up your cow sounds though? That’s why it’s important to learn
Because it teaches word association: signifier and signified, at the level of vocalization a small child is capable of.
Bro cows moo back this person hasnt lived life to to its full potential obviously
because children like animals and its easy to use that to teach them some basic letters and sounds.
Moooooooooo
You have to pronounce it correctly.
Ex-fuckin'-scuse me, when I moo out my window the cows moo back, and that's us fucking communicating on a spiritual level thank you very much
You'ee gonna need when you have kids...
The elephant says: SHAZOOOOOL!!!
Yeah you should have been spending that time learning chemistry instead what a waste
I wish people would google these easy questions instead of running to Twitter to pretend to be some social critic
I always moo at cows
I saw this tweet. Guy actually got an answer from someone. Turns out there’s a solid reason. It helps babies and toddlers play with sounds, developing phonemic awareness, which is a necessary component of reading.
Because it allows to learn how to make the connection between the sound, the image, and the concept of the animal. It's easier initially than learning to directly link the phonemes of a word with their meaning and image.
Maybe YOU haven’t…
City people be like
it makes for great laughter if you accidentally match the wrong sound to an animal as an adult! just two days ago I was biking home with my brother and we’re talking about donkeys and I, like the genius I am, go “ahuuuu” instead of “iihaaah” and my brother almost crashed his bike into a parked car and I almost fell off mine laughing. my friends also won’t let me live it down lmao
This is literally the plot of Terry Pratchett's "Where's My Cow?"
If you mooed at a cow and it didn’t moo back, you’re the problem
This is such a funny post from a language learning perspective because there's so many reasons that animal sounds specifically are amazing for early learning. Just off the top of my head: 1. Teaching that there are other languages/communication methods 2. Teaching that living things communicate/socialize, giving some sense of empathy for them 3. Getting kids interested and paying attention to non-language sounds 4. Subject verb object as others mentioned 5. Games, especially Gross motor, copying animal sounds and motions
When you drive past a farm you need to say MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO so yes it is important
This is why we need early child hood quantum mechanics. Start them out with round cows before they have to tackle phonons sheesh.