Sound Beginnings: A Language Development Program

Rating:
Summary: Loved it but the sound quality isn't optimal.
Review: 5 stars for substance; 3 stars for sound. This CD is fantastic. If you are interested in exposing your baby to foreign language sounds in the critical period (0-6 months) to promote foreign language learning later in life, this is the best product I have found on the market. And believe me, I have looked. It includes 7 different languages. However, the sound is not the best. The English is perfect but the rest of the language sections require you to fuss with the volume on your stereo. The other languages are much less audible and require you to turn up the volume during these sections. It isn't fun to turn up the volume for the 1st CD and startle your baby when the 2nd CD starts playing in English at a much higher volume and then back to hardly audible without a volume adjustment. However, if you're willing to do that, this CD is for you. (I thought I had a defective CD, but the replacement CD came with the same problem.)