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| List Price: | $19.95 | | Price: | $13.99 | | You Save: | $5.96 (30%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 45 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, Live, NTSC | | Studio: | BRAINY BABY | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | August 12, 2002 | | Sales Rank: | 14,175th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Description
Contains over 50 words including colors, numbers, favorite objects, action words and familiar phrases Introduced by a native-language (Spanish) Narrator Fun music and a nursery rhyme song in Spanish Includes a Vocabulary Review section DVD includes special features such as: Baby Bloopers, Behind The Scenes, Video Sing-Along and an Interactive Activity. 45 minutes |
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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 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 52 reviews)
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Not bad, can be better! by Leave it to Beaver (New York)  3 Stars
October 07, 2009
My daughter enjoys watching it for a little while. She's only 18 months old. She loses interest very quickly. Overall, a good dvd to begin teaching your child spanish.
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One great aspect - NO translations! Decent dvd overall! by Learn Spanish  4 Stars
September 19, 2009
This DVD was good. I like the slowness of the dvd, as it works well for *very* beginning learners. I REALLY LIKED that it didn't flip back and forth between English/Spanish; it's much more effective to help children understand the context and meaning of Spanish without always giving a translation. Constantly encouraging translation just adds an extra step in the acquisition. Example - after multiple sloooow slides of apples, I guess they should get "manazana" right!? ;) Yet - it works!!
At any rate, my kids will choose this DVD over others on my shelf of Spanish DVDs. Bottom line, there probably are better out there, but this isn't a waste of money either; it's slow, easy and good for beginners. I like to start/stop and give my kids a chance to use the vocab, etc. It works.
Thanks!
Spanish Professor and MOM
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by a native speaker grandmother by Hilda A. Gomez (Waterbury,CT)  5 Stars
August 15, 2009
I am native speaker, and I has been looking for products like this, I has been not lucky, biut this is really good, I was thinking how a girl with hispanic last name, half spanish, her mother is naive englisgh speaker can't talk in spanish. I has been disagreed with my son due that he choose by the easy path, talk english in home, Nathalia has been enjoy this DVD for the last 4 months, she has 33 months at this time, and she still interisting in this DVD, she start to associate english words with spanish work by herself, it is a completed inmersion to a little child , include to adult that is willing to learn spanish naturally, the only thibk is just 25 minutes, THANKS YOU BRANY COMPANY, I HOPE YOU WILL GIVE US MORE SPANISH DVD LIKE IT.
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Trying to learn! by J. Jones 4 Stars
June 18, 2009
The video is good. It held my two year olds attention, but I don't think a child much older would be watching it for long.
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I can't believe I'm writing this...but it works. by BlueSquares (Florida) 5 Stars
May 05, 2009
First a little background. I'm a cuban-american. Born in the US...parents from Cuba. I learned Spanish as my primary language but, as I grew up, English took over. Now when I speak spanish, I sound gringo as hell...but I can hold my own. I may sound (and screw up) but I can carry conversation...even with the picky Spaniards.
I married a Trini that speaks barebones school-taught spanish. Luckily she's very supportive of spanish as a 2nd language so I speak to my son in pure spanish all day...everyone else (her and 2 brothers) speaks to him in pure english all night.
I never give in. I always keep up the spanish. The results...he's learning. He knows what I'm saying and, although he may talk back in english at times, he understands. So if you know a bit of spanish...don't stop...they're listening and picking it up.
Now..onto the DVD. I'm reading these reviews about "proper spanish" and this crap makes me sick. Listen...just get the friggin' DVD. Who cares if he says "creyones" (I grew up on this word and it's perfectly fine). Who cares about the 2 or 3 odd words that don't get spoken in Spain. Let's get real...they're in the minority of latin america. I'm talking *minority*. Bottom line...I just want my kid to learn. If he says "bola" so what? Also, the speaker *is* spanish.
Onto the story...My son is now 2.5 years old. He's been going to sleep with this video since he was 18 months. The soothing music and voice is perfect for nighttime. Plus, I want him to hear the spanish dialect as well.
The results:
My son knows every friggin' word in the video. He can count from 1-10. He knows how to say every, single word. Seriously. And for those of you thinking "it only works when he's watching the DVD"....guess what? I walk with him to the mailbox and he counts the numbers on the boxes...in Spanish! He even knows words I don't speak in the daytime. I didn't understand where he got them, until I saw them in the video near the end.
Bottom line...this video is perfect for introducing and teaching Spanish. As adults we may find it boring...but for my Noggin spoiled kiddo...he digs it.
A huge 5 stars from my end.
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