
WALT DISNEY VIDEO - WALT DISNEY VIDEO
Release date: 2008-03-11
DVD
Director:n/a
Actors: Baby Einstein
Bright, Children, Children's / General, Children's Educational, Children's Video, Children's/Family, Childrens, Color, Easygoing, English, Family, Light, Movie, USA, Video




I read the reviews on this DVD and wasn't sure, but took a chance. There are good Baby Einstein DVDs, and not so good ones. Having tried several with my daughter for variety, this one is actually her third favorite, after Beethoven abd Language Nursery! It combines introducing new sounds with a variety of languages. Since I am trying to make sure my baby hears some foreign languages regularly, this was a goot fit for my little talker. Now, some of the words they introduce are more designed to fit the visual images the writers/producers wanted to include. For example, for the syllable "ma" they do Mama, and marionette. Now get real, what baby will say marionette. But beyond this I have no complaints.
First off, you have to learn to walk before you can run. Same applies for kids in America; you have to learn ENGLISH before you learn Spanish, French, Italian, etc. This video devotes too much time to foreign languages.
Also, they show different examples of fathers with their children but the word they teach the baby isn't the word you'd think:"Daddy" or "Father". Instead they say "Papa" in an Italian accent which sounds way too close to "Ba-ba" which is what many babies know as their bottles! I mean who really calls their fathers papa anyway?
Save your money and pass this one up unless you want your toddler ambling around the house singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in French.
It spends way too much time on foreign languages and not enough time on baby's first sounds. If you are going to do foreign languages, make sure to have a seperate track option. Keep english to english track, spanish to spanish, chinese to chinese track. Do not put them all together!!!