Product Details
- Starring: Bilingual Baby
- Format: Color, NTSC
- Rated:
- Studio: Small Fry Productions
- Video Release Date: August 1, 2000
- VHS Features:
- NTSC format (US and Canada only.
This VHS will probably NOT be viewable in other countries.)
- Color, NTSC
- ASIN: B00004XPNY
- Average Customer Review:
Based on 2 reviews.
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Bilingual Baby is a revolutionary series of videos
that exposes your child to the world of language-a priceless gift that will give
your child the opportunity to actually gain knowledge and brainpower.
Bilingual Baby features the Total Immersion Method, a well-established
teaching system that has long been used by both educators and language experts,
which advocates immersing the child in the new language. Your child will hear
only one language on all Bilingual Baby videos, giving them maximum
exposure to sounds, syntax and sentence structure. Young children have the
amazing ability to learn other languages easily if they are exposed to them
early in life. Learning a second language at an early age can also enrich mental
development-giving children an advantage in everything they learn! Research
shows that small amounts of second-language instruction help children become
more creative and better at solving complex problems. So give your children the
language advantage... and give them the world to play with!
All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
39 of 39 people found the
following review helpful:
*Very* mediocre production, January 9, 2003
We bought this videotape for my daughter, who is now 20 months old. My wife
and I are interested in having her learn German.
The best that I could say about the tape is that it is "OK." The tape
introduces words very slowly, one word at a time, then uses the preceeding three
words in a sample sententce. For example, you'll get:
"Boy..." [while showing a picture of a boy]
"Boy..." [while showing a picture of a different boy]
"Boy..." [while showing a picture of a different boy]
"Eat..." [while showing a picture of a person or animal eating something]
"Eat..." [while showing a different picture of a person or animal eating
something]
"Eat..." [while showing a different picture of a person or animal eating
something]
"Apple..." [while showing a picture of an apple]
"Apple..." [while showing a different picture of an apple]
"Apple..." [while showing a different picture of an apple]
"The boy eats an apple. The boy eats an apple" [picture of a boy eating an
apple]
So you have to ask youself: can you or your child watch this for 38 minutes a
day, for however many days?
The video goes through some general words (Mom, dad, boy, girl, etc...),
numbers, and colors. And that's it.
Some claims they make:
1) The tape is 45 minutes long. There is actually a bit more than *35
minutes* of content time. The rest is credits and blank tape.
2) The tape is "total immersion." I do not know where they are getting the
definitions from, but *everytime* someone pulls a book from a shelf, or opens a
book to read or display to the audience (i.e., YOU) in this video, *it is ALWAYS
an English book.* I imagine that something calling itself "total immersion"
would require showing people reading German texts in the German language, "total
immersion" video". Anything calling itself "total immersion" would also have to
show people *interacting* in the target language, which there is absolutely none
of in this video. It's all very one-way, almost "teacher-fronted" as I describe
above.
This company seems to have gone very wide, and not at all very deep. This is
the only video tape in German they provide, to my knowledge. That'sa a pity
because after you watch this video a couple of times, the question that begs to
be answered is "Well, what do I do now?"
This video alone provides too limited an exposure to the target language. It
could be one *very small* part of a German language environment that parents
might be trying to create, but nothing more.
43 of 44 people found the
following review helpful:
A good first video to introduce your baby to German., January 14, 2002
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My daughter really enjoys watching this video. She watches more than half the
video (about a half an hour) before moving on to another activity. Considering
she is only 13 months old, that is quite an accomplishment. She watches the
video between 1 and three times a day. Whenever she hears the music for the
video, she comes running to the TV.
The video itself uses brightly colored objects, young children and animals to
help your child learn German. Each word is repeated multiple times, then at the
end of each section sentences are made from the new words just learned. The
sections are: section 1 - familiar words and sentences; section 2- numbers;
sections 3 - colors; section 4 - manners & phrases; section 5 - more familiar
words and sentences; and section 6 - musical review.
The video is listed as ages 1 to 5 years old, but I think it is best suited
for children under 4 years old. Older children will most likely be bored with
the simplistic material, unless this is their first exposure to the language. In
that case, we watched the video with children from 7 to 13 years old who hadn't
been exposed to German, and they really enjoyed it too.
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