English Rewind - Entertainment: Describing sounds

📻 Waves, birds, babies or bagpipes? What are your favourite sounds? In this programme Callum looks at ways of describing the sounds you love in English, and we hear the favourite sounds of the BBC Learning English team, while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme Entertainment. What are your favourite sounds and which English words can you use to describe them? Tell us in the comments 👇👇👇

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ crashing waves - an expression for when a rough sea hits a beach
✔️ soothing - if a sound is soothing, it makes you feel calm and relaxed
✔️ (a baby) cooing - the happy sounds that a baby makes
✔️ (a cat) purring - the sound that a cat makes when it is happy

Describing sounds
✔️ I love / like + the sound of + noun
Examples:
I love the sound of laughter
I like the sound of the rain

✔️ I love / like + the sound of + noun + -ing
Examples:
I love the sound of birds singing
I like the noise of children playing

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[bbclearningenglish]

Can you describe any more sounds? For example - 'bees buzzing' 🐝or 'wind whistling' 💨
Let us know in the comments! 👇👇

[Nassr.]

I am fond of Listening to Quran it is incredibly soothing and relaxing.

[Nia-yzft]

I'm also fond of birds chirping and twitting as they flit across the branches. 🐦🌲🌳

[DilnozaMajidova-ps]

Honestly, I am quite a morning person . So I find nothing than the sound of birds chirping, it helps me to start my day to be so fresh.
Furthermore, currently I live in a city centre and it takes me back to my childhood in the countryside

[VeniceAlgood]

I like almost all sounds from nature.Such as the sound of water flowing、the sound of birds singing and the sound of wind blowing throgh the trees.All of them make me relaxed.And it is worth mentioning that i like listening the audios of them when i am anxious but not in nature at that time.

[НихмоноваРангина]

I am also fond of birds singing.Their sound relax me and give me positive emotions.

[uyendang]

I love the sound of water streaming in the forest 💙

[zenstoryshare]

Very useful video! Building a rich vocabulary for describing different sounds makes writing more immersive.

[ishitaroy]

She is so cool and cuteish. Had a clear and happy learning ❤️

[DillawerShehzad]

I love the sound of birds chriping especially in morninh.❤❤❤❤

[tammytsang]

The sound of baby cooing is the sweetest in my opinion.

[SeemaGajal-ur]

I love the sound of drizzling rain🌧️🌧️

[JahidKhan-fzxk]

I'm big fan of BBC learning English 😘😘
From Bangladesh 😁

[matildebolanos]

Really fascinanted llesson😊! In this moment I am living in a place sorrounded of trees and many birds are coming now . I love the sounds of birds😂

[Breezyvib]

I really like the sound of rain smashing to the window.

[peterenglish]

Hello, BBC Learning English. I listened to Callum Robertson when I was a student. I really like him. Is he still active? Where could I find more of his podcast audios?

[Hopeful]

I love the sound of a killer whale whistling .