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Summary: my baby loves and learns from it
Review: I am really pleased with the video and am looking for find more educational videos for her enjoyment. She really focuses on the video and I don't mind her watching TV if she's watching this video
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Summary: Not a bad way to kill 30 minutes
Review: Julie Clark is capitalizing (perhaps not on purpose) by whipping up parents to think that if children hear some foreign language sounds for (less than) 30 minutes a day, their minds will somehow become super-sponges with greater capacities, and will be more likely to understand languages. Shame! It's the same principle of rats getting cancer from eating artificial sweetners--sure they will in HUGE doses. Thus, my child and everyone else's will NOT become language experts even by watching this tape every day. On the other hand, the toys are nice to watch, my daughter enjoys the sounds and sights, and it can serve to calm/entertain when needed. Sooo, even though I question Ms. Clark's motives (or at least her sales pitch), it's still a worthwhile video.
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Summary: My baby loved this video!
Review: My child loved this video, as well as Baby Mozart and Baby Bach (he's a toddler now, and still likes to watch them from time to time). They are great ways of teaching your child vocabulary, concepts, and just having fun together! It was also nice to have all 3 so that we could rotate viewing them. Also a fun way to introduce more classical music to you child! The So Smart videos (more classical music and early learning) are also great.
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Summary: Great video!
Review: My baby loves this video! He is particularly enchanted with the Japanese sections - the sounds seem to appeal to him. My son has watched the video almost daily since he was 3 months old (he is now 8 months), and at this point, my husband and I can count to twenty in Japanese, Russian and Hebrew as well!
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Summary: Great!
Review: A great video, I wish I'd bought it earlier. I can just imagine the neuro-synaptic pathways in my baby's brain forming when he is watching it! However, I noticed the "French" speaker on the tape was not speaking Français but Quebecois (or as some French people call it, Franglais) essentially the same but, the accent is kind of Anglicised.
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Summary: A video that stimulates baby's listening skills
Review: My brother bought my daughter this tape when she was 9 months old and I wish that I had had it when she was born. Sixteen different languages are spoken (random nursery rhymes, the alphabet, numbers, etc. are recited) as various toys and everyday objects are shown. I found it strange at first, but my child was visibly drawn to it from the beginning. The only critism I have is that I am doubtful that the voices are spoken by native speakers as the video claims. My husband is French and he's sure that the voice speaking French does not belong to a native speaker. I don't know about the other languages but it leaves me wondering. Another remark is that once your child becomes mobile, her interests change very quickly and you shouldn't expect her to sit through the entire 30 minutes of the video. Nonetheless, watching the video with her and commenting on it can help her to develop her vocabulary.
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Summary: Best first video for Baby!
Review: My baby started watching this when he was 3 months old and just loves it! I wish I had gotten it even sooner! It shows bright colorful images which really caught his attention. Counting and nursery rhymes are recited in numerous foreign languages. After watching it for just a few days, he recognized certain parts and he smiled, laughed and screeched in delight! A month later I began repeating the nursery rhymes and counting and he thought that was great too. Julie Clark, the creator of this video, had taped her daughter on this video at the end and I think my son is in love with her, he always smiles when she appears. She has put out 2 other videos called Baby Bach and Baby Mozart which are also fabulous! No, I'm not getting paid to write this, it's just that my son enjoys these so much I just had to share my opinion. He is 8 months old now and still loves them! The price of the video on www.amazon.com is great, I paid a lot more for them at the mall.
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Summary: Good for children, engaging for interaction
Review: I enjoy the different languages, my child enjoys the songs & toys. We interact, almost conferring about what is on the video.
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Summary: Engaging, Captivating, and Wonderful for babies!
Review: I started showing this video to my baby when he was 2 1/2 months old. He loves it!! He sits and watches the entire 30 minute video. He goos to certain parts and squels in delight at the bright shapes and colorful patterns. It is perfect for young infants eyes and ears.
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Summary: In praise of "Baby Einstein"
Review: This "video board book" does a number of things very well. Much like a standard board book, it shows infants bright, high-contrast images. But this video version also plays soothing and sometimes spunky melodies. It also lets children hear speakers of more than half a dozen foreign languages, including Hebrew, Russian and Japanese.This feature of the video is confusing to many parents of potential viewers. Will the video teach junior to speak one of the foreign languages on the tape? Not exactly. Will it make junior a little Einstein? Not exactly. What good is it, then? What the video DOES do is help the mind preserve many of the nerve synapses in the brain which would otherwise be destroyed as the infant matures into a toddler. Imagine a Bonsai tree, of which some of its miniature limbs and branches are trimmed because they are not useful to the tree as a whole. The body does the same thing to unused mental synapses sometime around the first and second years of life. And they don't grow back. Now think about all the funny comedy scenarios you've seen where a Japanese tourist says something like, "Herro, I'm rooking for Horrywood, Carifornia." Why do his Ls sound like Rs? Because there is NO "R" sound (phoneme) in the Japanese language. And because our tourist never heard that sound in his infancy, he cannot now, as an adult, discern it from the phonemically-similar "L" sound. Infants hearing a variety of phonemes foreign to English-speaking people at this young age will preserve the synapses that are sensitized (from birth) to these sounds. And this video does just that. So while the video will not teach junior the foreign language, if he tries to learn the language later, he will have an easier time of it, because he will be sensitized to that language's sounds. And while junior perhaps will not be an Einstein for watching, he will come away from the experience with more synapses in his brain than had he not watched. Also be aware that none of this is pop psychology -- it is well-researched and tested fact, taught in most undergraduate and graduate psychology, speech and linguistics classes today (See the producer's Web site for details). Finally, as other reviewers have said better than I have, the video is a lot of fun for you and junior to watch together! And perhaps THAT is the selling point for prospective parents who want the best for their little ones.
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