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Summary: Babies and kids alike love this
Review: I have a 5 year old, a four year old, and a 12 month old, (as well as my sister's baby, who was born on the same day as my youngest). All four kids cannot get enough of this Baby Einstein DVD. Sure, most of the visuals don't match the words being spoken, but that's not the intent. No one expects your baby to be able to recite the alphabet in Hebrew (one of the languages featured). These visuals, combined with the foreign languages used, are designed to stimulate your baby's brain and get them thinking. Languages featured are Japanese, Hebrew, Spanish Russian, English and German. Older kids are just as stimulated by the sights and sounds. A modest investment for something your kids will love.
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Summary: pictures don't match words
Review: I have the entire baby einstein set for my daughter. she loves all of them, and even doesn't mind the language nursery. i, however, get frustrated that the visuals don't match the words. throughout the video when the narrater reads in the foreign language, the visual should pop up that match the words so that your child can learn by what's being said/heard. i also heartily agree with another reviewer that in some of the other baby einstein videos the narrator doesn't say the word correctly. leaf should sound like leaf, train should sound like train, not tree. it might sound cute, but it doesn't teach your child to annunciate correctly. i also can't understand the jokes that the child says because they have some odd reverberation effect going on with the microphone. even though i have these issues with the educational value of the series, i really think this series is great. they entertain my daughter and she likes them a lot. i have more problem with them than she does ;-)
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Summary: Strange but OK
Review: I still think this show is a bit weird. I understand that it's concept is to expose your child to the sounds of different languages and not necessarily teach them the different languages, but my husband and I still don't know if we like it or not and we've watched it together several times. The language exposure is a good thing, but the images are completely unrelated to what is being said. I guess they have to do something to get the baby's attention and the language exposure happens in the background sort of. I will say that the one part that has particularly entertained us all (mom, dad and baby) is the Japanese alphabet. Mommy likes to be silly and add "goo-goo-gah-gah" after "ka-ki-ko-kay-ku". Anyway, rent it first if you can to try it out before you buy it. I am still a firm beleiver, however, in limiting the exposure my baby has to TV in general no matter how great the production is. Two or three shows a week is plenty in my humble opinion. Baby DVDs are a nice to have as entertainment suppliments... If you are going to buy these DVDs or videos, remember that your baby needs you more than any educational or entertaining TV and to use them sparingly.
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Summary: 26 Months and still requests
Review: My son (26 months) still enjoys baby einstein, especially the CD now. We practice saying the alphabet, numbers and other words in numerous languages. His confidence with foreign language can be directly attributed to this video/CD as it was his only exposure for the first 2 years. Now, my husband and I are learning the other languages along with our son. We count in spanish, french, and german - our son can count in japanese we can't discern the sounds well enough, but he can. We also own baby mozart, bach, newton, doolittle and shakespeare. All of them are requested on a regular basis and preferred to blue's clues and the other "more entertaining" TV he is exposed to. When we listen to the radio with classical music, he will tell us which video the music comes from. We watch shakespeare before going to bed and listen to the poetry before going to find a book to read. These materials have enriched all of our lives and hopefully they will do the same for you.
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful!!!!!
Review: What a great idea. My daughter has been watching this since she was 1 month. She is absolutely captivated by these videos. And mom learns a little too. The DVD is great because it includes the language discovery cards in electronic form. It also has repeat play. Even though these videos are advertised as interactive time between parent and child they work great on their own too - fussing quickly becomes squeals of laughter. Shen loves them.
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Summary: Use it as a learning tool!
Review: The first time I sat my son down to watch this DVD, he lost interest in just a couple of minutes from hitting play. Until I sat down with him and explained and went over everything with him, he actually had watched it with me. It's very bright, musical, and educational but you'd have to take part in it if you'd want to teach your child something. If you plan to have more children then it's worth buying but if you're unsure, try buying it used or borrow it from a friend or relative. It'll last you for a year from birth, maybe two years but after your child recognizes Barney or Blues Clues, it'll be boring and unentertaining to them.
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Summary: A little confusing
Review: My 9 month old baby is not impress with this video, she is not aware of what they are talking about because when the video is mentioning the numbers or the alphabet it does not show anything related to it and it does not says the language that is used in every episode.
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Summary: Not so Hot
Review: I purchased this video thinking it would be a great educational video for my daughter. Not the case as I found out. I liked the fact that there were many languages but the picture and the words need to match. Things did not match up. I listened in English and another language and it was confusing. If you are going to teach counting for example, when you say 1,2,or 3 it should be the same as what is on the screen. You can't say 2 and show 5 balls. Otherwise, a child will not connect the two. If you say "up" something should be going up. I got rid of it as soon as I could.
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Summary: Not executed well at all
Review: I had heard great things about the whole series of these video's, so I purchased this one...unfortunatly. It is just a bunch of foreign language babble...I would have thought they would have at the very least, had subtitles so the parents could explain to their children what was being said. The pictures on the screen didn't even correspond with what was being said (I know this from when they would talk in English). At one point they were counting in different languages and taking away blocks...but they would only take away 1 block for every 4 or 5 numbers....would be real confusing for a child learning to count. We didn't even watch the whole thing...only made it about 15 minutes through and my daughter hadn't even so much as glanced up at it...not to mention my complete disapointment in it. If I were to do something of this nature I would have, for instance, showed a picture of a horse...and said the word horse in all the different languages...that way you know what is being said. I don't know what good it does to just hear different languages being babbled, if you have no idea or indication as to what is being said. I would NOT recomend this to anyone.
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Summary: much overhyped
Review: My daughter started crying everytime I played this for her. She hated it. If you get as a gift ok. But save your money and buy barney or something from Elmo's World. They'll enjoy that alot more.
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