Rating: Summary: Great Video! Review: I got this for my Niece. Its a great little video for getting off on the right foot. And good for parents who want to learn a little Spanish in the process.Jabu Studio
Rating: Summary: Excellent Learning Tool Review: I have the Small Fry bilingual baby tape for Spanish and I also have the Brainy Baby Spanish DVD. They are not the same tape!!!! The Brainy Baby one is longer, 45 minutes compared to 30 minutes for bilingual baby. The content is structured differently. As an infant and toddler my daughter liked bilingual baby, but now she prefers the Brainy Baby version. There is a more extended vocabulary and there is some review of the familiar basic words from the first video. There is some footage in both, but they are certainly different!
Rating: Summary: Pretty good video! Review: 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!
Rating: Summary: Same as Small Fry's Bilingual Baby Vol 2 Spanish Review: If you already own Small Fry's Spanish tape (vol 2) - you'll find that Baby Brainy Spanish uses the exact same footage, in fact it's the same tape - it is just edited differently. My 2 1/2 yr old son prefers the Brainy Baby version - probably because it starts out simpler - with nouns, progresses to colors, numbers, verbs and then phrases. The Small Fry Bilingual Baby tape hurries into phrases too quickly, it's not as well done. (And no, I wouldn't consider it a part 2 of the series) I am disappointed that I own 2 copies of this tape, unfortunately Small Fry is unwilling to do anything about it. On the other hand - we really like Baby Brainy Left and Right - those are wonderful. If Brainy Baby were to take those and translate them into Spanish and any other language - that would be a great teaching tool. Since around age 2 - my son has spoken/known his alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes and now speaks in complete but simple sentences. Just some background on me - I grew up in a bilingual home but unfortunately my parents really stressed speaking English at most times - while I understand Spanish, I have great difficulty speaking it. And I certainly can't read it. My husband and I really want our son understand Spanish. So besides buying these tapes, I'm also using Spanish software to rebuild my own skills.
Rating: Summary: Excellent video! Review: My infant loves watching this video. I have absolutely nothing negative to say about it. Definitely a wise investment.
Rating: Summary: Not that Good Review: So I have Bilingual Baby already and this DVD is almost exactly the same. So it didn't add any value to my 2 year old son. Also, the best way to teach kids spanish is to immerse them in the music, visuals and language and this video doesn't do that. In fact none of the United States based videos do. I highly recommend you try videos that come from Hispanic countries instead. Much more visually impactful. Try "Los Rayos".
Rating: Summary: GREAT VIDEO - BUY IT! Review: This is definitely a very entertaining DVD filled with a variety of tools to teach young children Spanish. I have been playing this DVD since my baby was about 6 months old and she loves it!! It is the ONLY video (DVD) she will actually sit and pay attention to for a long time. Now that she has just turned one, there are many words that she says and recognizes from the video. As a Spanish speaker myself, I highly recommend it, although there are some words that could use different translations (but that depends where you are from.) Nonetheless, the video is entertaining, useful, full of color and cute babies, which your baby will love! It may become quite annoying to you after watching it so much but your child will love it. It's a great video...buy it!
Rating: Summary: Brainy Baby - Spanish - Not For Musicians Review: 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 the video. Aside from that I guess it's fine, thus the 2 stars. We also bought Brainy Baby - Right Brain, which is much better. I'd give it 3 or 4 stars. Our favorite learning video thus far is Baby Van Gogh by baby einstein. Baby Shakespeare is 2nd.
Rating: Summary: Very Happy Review: Was very impressed with the video. I have an 18 month old who loves it. The only negative is that the Spanish is more Castilian. Living in the Southwest, I want more "latin american" Spanish. This is still a great Spanish video. If you're interested in this raising a bilingual child, "Babies Speaking Spanish" is an excellent video. My 18 month old sits through the entire video!
Rating: Summary: Some bad Spanish....but good video Review: When I saw one of the very negative reviews, I thought this person was exaggerating given that I had bought the Brainy Baby for French DVD and thought it was really good (quality and all), but I needed to buy an educational DVD for my 18 mo. old daughter in Spanish since is too my very first mother tongue. I decided to buy this DVD, specially because there are not many out there of this kind. When I saw it, I thought it wasn't that bad. It does have accents where there should be, and question marks (Did this person referred to an old version?) However, they did use a couple of words that I would not use in spanish so it's useless to teach a toddler words she would not use, like the word for ball (pelota), they used "bola". I think pelota is more widely used, not just in Mexico. That is my only criticism; they should have used a term that is common for many countries, so I think they should have done a little more research and the narrator would be fine. Her pronunciation is fenomenal (regardless whether or not she is a native speaker, it doesn't matter!). The content of the video is great, just what a toddler needs to learn a language in a fun way. My daughter enjoyed this DVD from beginning to end. It's just good enough to entertain my daughter without mindless TV cartoons.
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