Spanish - Brainy Baby - Vhs: Brainy Baby: Amazon.ca: Video

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Research shows that during the early years, a child's brain is wired to absorb the syntax, sentence structure, and dialect of a second language. Based on the concept of total language immersion, Brainy Baby: Spanish is a commendable tool for those seeking bilingual enrichment for their youngsters. Only Spanish is spoken through 45 minutes of instruction and live-action footage that covers familiar objects, colors, numbers, and phrases. While there are several bilingual videos on the market by notable companies, this one stands out for its superb sound and picture quality, lively footage, and extra DVD features such as a Spanish nursery rhyme, interactive story, and (when kids need a break from language lessons) entertaining bloopers. While not meant to be a child's sole source of bilingual instruction, it's a worthy tool, especially if adults can reinforce the lessons throughout the child's day. The instruction is solid, the picture quality superb, and the interspersed frivolity reminds us that captivating kids is the ultimate goal of education. (Ages 2 to 5) --Lynn Gibson

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Children's Spanish DVD, Oct 30 2003

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I found this DVD when my daughter was 15-months old and wish I'd found it sooner. As a native Spanish speaker, I think this DVD is quite complete and covers all the essentials in just 45-mins. I certainly wish there were a 2nd volume to follow. I liked this DVD more than my BumbleBee vocabulary videos (although those are good too).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent beginning primer for Spanish, Mar 11 2003

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I am a billingual Spanish (Cuban)/English speaker. It is very important to me that I teach my son Spanish. I bought this video to reinforce my teachings. I am very pleased with all that it covers. It reviews the numbers 1-10, colors, common nouns, some parts of the body, Mommy, Daddy, common verbs, hello, goodbye, yes, no, and how to say please and I love you. It does some reviews with questions and answers for things like, "How many books are there? There is one book.", or "What color is the snowman? The snowman is white." (obviously in Spanish). The words for all of these are displayed in Spanish on the screen in large print and in English in small print. There is a lot of repetion to reinforce the lessons. They missed some obvious things, like how to say thanks you and some parts of the body (like arms), but I guess you can't get everything in. They also use a couple of words that are different from my dialect, but there are so many dialects, I can't see how they can avoid it. They also sing Mary had a Little Lamb in Spanish (no words are shown onscreen while doing this, which would have been nice). But, overall, a very good dvd and worth purchasing.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good video!, May 17 2004

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I thought this video was pretty good -- a little dry. My kids like the Sesame Street Fiesta one better and also the Global Village Kids Sing and Learn CD -- which isn't a video but a CD with bilingual nursery rhymes. They dance to the music, they pick up Spanish words and phrases and I think it's better for them than staring at a tv screen all day. Still, this DVD is worth the money since there's not a whole lot else out there for parents who want to introduce their kids to Spanish and it did keep my two kids (4 & 6) attention!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Brainy Baby - Spanish - Not For Musicians
Unless you're tone deaf, you'll want to avoid this one. The string quartet that plays on the soundtrack is so out of tune that I could not even tolerate one complete playing of... Read more

Published on May 4 2004 by etpollak

5.0 out of 5 stars school teacher and mom of 3
All I can say is what a GREAT introduction to the Spanish langauge! My kids loved it so much that I think we're going to try French next!! Read more

Published on April 2 2004