Dear qzee,

Thank you very much for your kind post. WINKtoLEARN is thrilled to introduce a series of flashcard-inspired DVDs for European languages in May and June. French is the first title to be launched. This series is co-developed with Globibo, a London-based company which provides professional interpretation, translation services, language courses and cross-cultural training for many MNCs. Globibo has offices in both London and Singapore.

The French language teacher is Karine Poirier (on the front cover). She is a French native speaker from Paris and has obtained her Master in La Sorbanne University. Karine is also an experienced translator, interpreter and instructor with Globibo Singapore.

Check out more about our program by clicking here: http://www.winktolearn.com/Free-DVD-Lessons/speak-a-read-french-flashcard-inspired-4-dvds-program.html

My son has been watching the Chinese Songs and WinktoLearn Chinese and absolutely loves them!  What age group do you recommend the Speech & Drama series?   Will you be able to allow us to view a sample?

Dear RD,

Thank you very much for your positive feedback. We are glad that your child is benefitting from our programs. Speech & Drama series is developed with the intent as the follow-on series for our Speak & Read Chinese 6-DVDs as well as our Sing to Learn Chinese 3-DVDs series. Suitable age group is from 2 onwards. Please click here to view a sample and also the scripts for those stories in this series: http://www.winktolearn.com/About-Our-DVD-s/speak-a-read-speech-a-drama-edition-dvds.html

For your information, this series is co-developed with Pan Asia Publishing Pte Ltd. Pan Asia was established in 1984 and had published more than 700 children Chinese books for the young.

Hi Hazel
I'm very interested in the French dvds, it's so difficult to find reading/cultural programs in French for little ones, great job!

Could you please let me know how many dvds will be released in May, and whether I can pre-order them?

Thanks!

Dear Hypatia,

Thank you very much for your kind feedback. We are releasing our Speak & Read French 4-DVDs program in May priced at Singapore dollars $88 (approximately US$70). The French teacher is Ms. Karine Poirier (at the front cover of our program). She is a French native speaker from Paris. She obtained her Master in La Sorbanne University. Ms. Karine is also an experienced translator, interpreter and French instructor, currently based in Singapore.

Please PM your email address to me so that I am able to follow up with you on the pre-order.

Wow! I did not even know you had French, German, and Spanish DVDs in the works -  I want all of them!       Are these gonna have children's songs in the target language in between lessons too?

A question about the Speech and Drama DVDs - are the 800 words taught in these videos different from the ones in the Wink to Learn Chinese 6-DVD set? Or will there be some (or a lot) of overlap?

Dear Aangeles,

Thank you very much for your kind enquiry. Yes indeed, we had been planning to release another 10-15 languages. The Thai and Filipino programs are almost done. At the same time, we are excited to launch our French, German and Spanish program in May as well. I had uploaded a couple of product covers for your viewing. As usual, when the products are ready, we will inform Brillkids members for sure! For all our programs, we ensure that our teachers and voice-overs are native speakers as well as language teachers. We had also included the profile of these teachers at the back of our programs too.


As for the words taught in Speech & Drama DVDs, the words taught are very different. It's a fabulous follow-on program after our 6-DVDs program. The focus on this new series will be a lot on convversation and story-telling. We will be uploading the scripts and translation for all the stories by today or tomorrow. We will notify you once these materials are uploaded.

Dear Waterdreamer,

Thanks a lot for your kind revert. For our French, German, Spanish programs, we had collaborated with Globibo (a London-based company) which provides professional interpretation, translation services, language courses and cross-cultural training for many MNCs. Globibo covers more than 30 languages and has offices in both London and Singapore.

We are aiming to release the abovementioned programs in May. All the teachers and voice-overs are native speakers and very qualified teachers as well. We will definitely keep you posted on the development.

Dear All,

We are happy to share our joy with you! After months of development work, WINKtoLEARN has finally released her Speech & Drama Chinese 3-DVDs series. This series aims to help child to read/recognize more than 800 words and also speak proper Mandarin confidently. It contains separate lessons for both Simplfied Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

In order to help your child to recognise words faster, the words shown in all the videos are big and brightly coloured. As your child is enjoying the video, he/she is also reading the 800 words taught in this 3-DVDs series. 

Each story video is accompanied with a Speech & Drama video. After watching the story video for a few times, your child is able to role-play using the Speech & Drama video. In a Speech & Drama video, the dialogue audio is purposely lowered significantly. Therefore this allows children, parents and educators to take up different roles like caterpillar, tortoise, squirrel and etc. This interactive and innovative way of learning definitely helps your child in his/her ability to master Chinese from young. 

Enter coupon code "BRILLKIDS" to enjoy a further 5% discount right away! Lastly, as usual, shipping is always FREE @ winktolearn.com   

Check out our sample videos by clicking here: http://www.winktolearn.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=470&category_id=17&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2&view=details

Dear Aangeles,

I am happy to inform you that we are happy to extend the 10% Easter promotion offer to you. We are expecting the Filipino program to be ready around end April. I am sorry for the delay as we need to send the master DVDs to our proofreader for final review. What we recommend is for you to pay for 2 sets of Speak & Read English (Enhanced Version). We will mail the first set to you and the second set will be replaced by our Speak & Read Filipino which will be sent to you later part of April. This manner you are able to enjoy the promotion and also receive the one of the 2 programs earlier.

If this is fine with you, please proceed with the order in our online store. I will personally monitor and follow up with you on this matter.


Best regards,
Hazel

Any chance the Speak and Read Filipino DVDs will come out before the 17th so I can take advantage of the Easter promotion? 

Thanks!

Dear All,

Good news! WINKtoLEARN is running her Easter online promotion till 17th April 2011. Enjoy 10% discount for all online purchases above S$150 (approximate US$115). Plus free shipping included.

Dear All,

Good news! WINKtoLEARN is running her Easter online promotion till 17th April 2011. Enjoy 10% discount for all online purchases above S$150 (approximate US$115). Plus free shipping included.

Hi TracyR4,

Thank you very much for your kind words. Our English USA teacher (Ms. Sonja Bretschneider) is an American teacher from Minnesota. As for our English UK voiceover (Ms. Justine Moss), she is a communications consultant from UK. They had been a great help during the product development.

Dear All,

We have many requests from parents who want to have a choice between English USA and English UK. Good news! Our Speak & Read English 4-DVDs program, a flashcard-inspired lesson based DVD program, contains separate lessons for both English USA and English UK. There are many subtle differences in terms of pronunciation and spelling. For example:

English USA: airplane
English UK: aeroplane

English USA: colors
English UK: colours

This newly released program helps your child to recognize more than 500 words and also help your child to form proper phrases and sentences. Please click here to view our free preview lessons: http://www.winktolearn.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=10&category_id=2&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2&view=details

The program is only SGD88 (approximately US$68). Besides, we absorb all shipping costs to serve you better.

Dear All,

Coming hot on the heels of our Speak & Read Japanese and Korean DVDs, today we're proud to announce the release of "Speak & Read Malay flashcard-based 4-DVDs". This program is developed with well-training Malay teachers from Singapore primary schools. Malay language is one of the most spoken languages in Singapore and Malaysia. It holds much similiarities with Bahasa Indonesia as well.

It aims at helping your child to recognize more than 600 Malay words as well as to form proper phrases and sentences. Click here to view the free preview videos: http://www.winktolearn.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=466&category_id=15&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2&view=details

Take advantage of the $10 coupon code "HAPPY2011" to purchase this new program!

If you need any further assistance, please feel free to email us ([email protected]) or PM us. We are here to serve you better.

Wink to Learn,
Are you guys ever planning on creating a Speak and Read French or Spanish?

You are reading our mind, Waterdreamer.    You will be the first to be informed. 

Thanks Wink to Learn!
I hope its ok, I just posted that coupon code on my blog

Dear Waterdreamer,

Definitely! Please feel free to share the $10 coupon code with your friends and beloved. The good thing about ordering from us is that we absorb all shipping costs for all online orders regardless of value. 

Thanks Wink to Learn!

To anyone bored with some extra time, if you want to help compile websites for this list, feel free to jump in! I am just (more than a little) swamped this week and my evenings are spoken for. I am going to try and take the time to do it soon though, but if someone gets to it before me, that's great too!

It's our pleasure, TMT.   If we happen to come across some good programs in the market place, we will definitely chip in the list. Wishing you a great 2011 ahead!

[HAPPY2011]

Hi, TMT!

Please, add to the list

Whistlefritz DVDs/ CD  (great program to teach your children Spanish)

Wink to Learn educational DVDs, they are amaizing.

Baby Learns Chinese DVDs



Thank you for making the list

Dear TMT, NadiaD and all,

Thank you very much for your recommending WINKtoLEARN in the listing. We sincerely appreciate your kindness and efforts to put together a worthy list of early learning programs. I am sure that this list will be a great help to many parents like yourselves.

In conjunction with the new year, WINKtoLEARN likes to offer a free $10 online coupon code "HAPPY2011" for all of you. Expiry: 31 January 2011. Please feel free to take advantage of this coupon code to offset against any of our products via our online store @ winktolearn.com.

You have more choices now as we had extended our Speak & Read series to English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Filipino and Malay versions are launching in January 2011!