Spanish for Kids: Learn Spanish Beginner Level 1

I bought this DVD to help supplement some of the ASL I've been teaching to my 3.5 year old. The alphabet is easy to follow as you can see the way you're supposed to sign from both your perspective and the perspective of the person you're signing with. It also includes numbers, pronouns, some occupations, family members, and colors. I also really liked that it included some social etiquette do's and don'ts for when you're speaking with someone who is deaf. For example, don't be watching another person's signing conversation as that's considered eavesdropping. The video is better for the 5+ crowd as it describes a lot of movements and is more instructional than it is playful for the younger crowd. With its more instructional tone, a few parts of it were a bit slow and methodical. My 3.5 year old was a bit bored with it, so I'll probably hold off showing it to him again until he can understand more of what they're talking about and just continue teaching him myself. I found it useful for myself though as I was able to getting a better idea of the movements used to sign with. Great instructional video for older children and adults.

I'm glad I brought this DVD after contemplating about it for a year. What I like most about it is that there are Authentic Spanish people in it - which is Great for a change. I like this a lot for my 2 ½ yr old, and it's great practice for myself as well - as we are both learning Spanish. The dog singing I could could see that being hard to understand for a child learning. The one of the best parts of this DVD, is when the dog says "Muy Bien"! Me and my child both love that part. What I don't care for about this dvd, is a small child won't be able to do the quizzes until he knows how to work the remote. But overall, I'm very satisfied, that I brought this, and I love forward to buying all that they put out when learning Spanish. I give it 4 ½ stars. It covers a decent amount of beginning Spanish. Also, my son does enjoy this DVD as well - it holds his attention, and he does understand a good bit of Spanish, we've been learning since he was about 5 months old.

I'm definitely glad we bought this, and will be buying the second one in this series. I'm a speech therapist, and agree that the techniques used for language teaching are very appropriate -- lots of repetition, pairing the same words with different contexts, speaking and singing the same words, and having different people use the same words. Good pairing of auditory and visual strategies.The production values are not the best, so as an adult I'm very aware that some of the acting is stiff ("Feliz cumpleanos, Carlos" as Papa is about to fall asleep at the table). The sound fluctuates in quality and obviously some of it was dubbed in later -- meaning that it sounds as if from a different source. It also looks like the quality of an old camcorder that we had.BUT -- my daughter loves it, watches it over and over, and definitely has picked up some new Spanish from the DVD. The context is very relate-able for her and holds her attention all the way through.

This is great for kids who can read. However, my 4 year olds can not read yet. It keeps their attention for a little while but not through the whole video. It is easy to understand what is being said in Spanish. However, there are English subtitles rather than English being spoken. The characters act out what is being said, but order for my children to understand exactly what the Spanish words mean I have to sit with them every minute that the video is on and constantly read the subtitles. With the Professor Parrot video the English and Spanish words are spoken so that my kids can understand it better. I would rate it higher if my kids were old enough to read the subtitles.

I've taken some ASL classes through our community Adult Continuing Education program, so I had some training when I received this DVD. It's an excellent DVD to supplement learning through informal forums such as night school. The teacher in my classes obviously had to move through a set amount of material in a specific period of time, so she had to keep things moving. I wish I'd had this DVD during those classes because, even though it was designed for kids, it covers much of the early material covered in class. I am using it now to refresh my memory since I don't use ASL every day. A very good DVD and very useful for beginners of all ages.

I've always wanted to learn sign language and finally am giving it a try. This dvd is set into chapters or you can watch it start to finish. My only complaint is you can't see the alphabet signs crystal clear against her yellow sweater, it's too close to skin color. Also they show her from the front and a young child from behind so you can see the hand both ways and the camera doesn't capture the childs hand in a couple shots. These are minor complaints and I will order the next dvds in the series. By the way I learned the abc's,numbers and some colors buy my third time watching! Feel pretty good about it! I think your hands and fingers could get very sore doing it much in the beginning!

I bought this DVD for my 4 year old to watch in the car.She learns ACL in bits and pieces at school and is constantly showing me the signs for random things, so I thought she'd enjoy learning more.Once the DVD gets going, it's fun, but the intro is very long. Since we watch in the car, I can't fast forward the DVD player in the back seat. I find my daughter complains for the first 5 or so minutes as the intro rambles on. After that, she's signs along and is a captive audience as it plays. If your kids watch it at home or school, i'd be easy to skip the intro, so it's worth buying.

My 2 1/2 years old loves it - I think a little more than Professor parrot speaks Spanish. [I must also mention that she has several Spanish language tools like books, classroom style charts with English and Spanish numbers, colors, and shapes and and other DVD/CDs] We call the time we spend viewing this DVD our "Spanish Lesson" and I notice that when many of the words appear on the screen in Spanish she will shout it out before the narrator says it. I think that it is a good complement to the other tools that we use and I look forward to the other volumns.

I loved this and i can't wait for the next level. I got it to help teach my daughter who is only 15 months, but i figured its never to young to start. I learned most of the signs within a week! and my daughter is even trying to sign! Very fun video with easy to fallow signing!

I know it is for beginner but the content was too short and too easy. I was expecting more. It is very hard to buy DVDs without watching them.

Me and my children sure learned a lot. The children on the video teach too, so it's not intimidating. My son asks for orange juice and cookies in sign language now.

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Me and my children sure learned a lot. The children on the video teach too, so it's not intimidating. Even my 3yr old learned a bit.