I was looking into the Little Pim French and Spanish, and was wondering if they plan to expand? They seem so basic.
Is it also useful to get someone like for 2 hours a week or something to speak and play with them in the fluent language, or are the CDs and DVDs sufficient? HELP!!!
Hello TattoedMommy
The DVDs, Little Pim are not basic at all! It is really amazing that they go from a word ('the lamp'), leading on to 'she is turning the lamp on' and 'she is turning the lamp off'. You won't find any other program for babies which go into so much details. Mum, Dad, Grand-ma = Mum gives her a cuddle, GrandMa gives him a cuddle.. that's really great in my opinion. I've bought some very expensive dvds which will teach your child 5 numbers in half and hour, and that's it. Really not worth the money.
Your child is learning many many words and sentences just with the 3 dvds (i don't work for them
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They are shooting the series 4,5,6 now.
If you don't speak French and Spanish, you can still train your child's ear (and yours is very young, all the better
) What i've been doing since my little one was 7 months is to play Little Pim (dvd), Mandarin everyday, even if it's just 5 mn. I change dvds every week. You should see my daughter's smile when i put it on! she smiles at the kids, does some funny sounds, gets all excited by the little Panda. She watches it in the highchair. Then, at least another 10-15 mn a day, i put a cd in the background while she plays: either some native speaker talking, or some children singing.
She will need to be able to communicate in Mandarin at some stage, in the near future. I'll enrolled her at a Chinese playgroup when she's 2.
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