[LorenPechtel]

One would think animal sounds would be basically universal but it isn't so--other than meow I can't recall any animal sound that was understandable to my wife (native Mandarin speaker.)

[simlevesque]

The rooster sound is pretty different from one language to the other.

[downvotetruth]

Imitative hiss noise? owl who?

[LorenPechtel]

I'm talking about the word for the sound, not imitations of the animal's actual sound. I have been understood imitating an animal.