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စီးဝၣ်ဃးလၢအကလုၢ်သီၣ်ဒိၣ်

Noisy Crows

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ဖဲယဖိတဖၣ်အိၣ်လၢအသွံပူၤ ယက ကဟုကယၥ်အီၤ

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When my babies are in the nest, I have to be on guard.

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နကွၢ်ဆူးဃီၤကွၢ်လၢယသွံပူၤ ကွၢ်တၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အံၤ လီၤအဲၣ်လၢယလဲၤထံၣ်န့ၢ်ဘၣ်အီၤ

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Come peep into my nest. See the lovely things I have found.

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ယဘၣ်ယသးလၢယကယူၤထီၣ်ထီ လၢမူခိၣ်ဒ်သိးကဘီယူၤ

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I love to fly up in the sky, like a plane.

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ယကၠီၢ်လီၤလၢသ့ၣ်ခံ ဒီးကွၢ်တၢ်ဝးတ၇ံးဃုအီၣ်ဆၣ်လၢအဝံၣ်အဘဲ

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I sit on the tree and look around for some tasty bits of food.

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ယကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်လၢအကၠ့ၣ် ယကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်လၢအဆွဲ

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I look to my right. I look to my left.

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ယအဲၣ်ညၣ်ဖိ ဖဲယထံၣ်အီၤအခါ ယကယူၤလီၤဒီးဖီၣ်န့ၢ်အီၤ

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I love fish. When I spot it, I fly down to pick it up.

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ယကိးယသကိးဟဲအီၣ်ကွၢ် လၢယကလုၢ်ဒၣ်ဝဲ

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With my cawing I call my friends to share the feast with me.

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ပှၤအါဂၤကိးဃါဝဲယၤ"လဲၤကွံၥ်မ့ၢ်ယံၤ ထိၣ်ကလုၢ်ဒိၣ်ဧၢ"

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Some people shout at me, "Go away, you noisy bird."

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ဆွံၣ်မံၤအဝဲကနၣ်ယကလုၢ်မု၁်မး အတဲဘၣ်ယၤလီၤ

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Mr Fox likes my singing. He told me so himself.

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ဟဲမၤလိတၢ်ကတိၤလၢအသီတဖၣ်ဘၣ်သကိး တၢ်ဖိဒံးဖိဃၢ်မ့ၢ်တမ့ၢ်ထိၣ်အကလုၢ် ဘၣ်တၢ်ကိးအမံၤဒၣ်ဝဲ နသ့ၣ်ညါခဲလၢၥ်ပှဲၤဖျၢၣ်လဲၣ် စိးဝၣ်ဃးကိးကါကါ သၣ်မံညီၤကိးမံဧီၤမံဧီၤ

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LET US LEARN SOME NEW WORDS. The sound that each animal or bird makes, has a special name.How many of these do you know? A crow caws. A cat mews.

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ခ့ယုၢ်ကညီ ဆွံၣ်မီၤတၢ် စိးဝၣ်ဃးကိးသဲဖးဒိၣ် ပှၤကညီတဲတၢ်သဲဖးဒိၣ် ပတဲအီၤလၢ "ကလုၢ်သဲဒိၣ်ဒ်သိးစိးဝၣ်ဃး"

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A lion roars. A dog barks. Crows make a lot of noise. So when some people talk loudly we say, "As noisy as a crow".

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From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.