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2 comments about Bilingual Baby, JAPANESE, Vol 5.

1. I am very happy with this video. The Japanese is spoken clearly and the pictures are colorful. I like the classical music in the backround. My baby is almost 1 and it keeps her attention. I also learn alot. This video teaches about lots of things that small children are interested in.



2. I'm totally pleased with the quality! My 10-month old daughter enjoys it thoroughly. I have played other tapes and she is not interested in viewing them. I'm searched extensively for videos with Small Fry quality and nothing compares to the colors, sounds, and real-life experiences you have offered in the Japanese version.

5 comments about Bilingual Baby, JAPANESE, Vol 5.

1. My 18mo son loves his akachan video. The images are eye catching and appropriate, the background music is upbeat (children's songs), children of various ages and ethnic backgrounds are featured, the pace is just right (you can repeat or translate afterward), and the narrator speaks real Japanese clearly. I like the way the video introduces words then has a practical application. It starts out with familiar words and sentences (dog, play, ball, the dog plays with the ball). Numbers and colors are next (one, one book, how many books?, one book). Manners and phrases follow (please, thank you, yes, no, hello, good-bye, I love you). Then more familiar words and sentences. It ends with a review of everything. The box has a script of all the words and phrases which I found very helpful. Now I'm anxious to introduce my toddler to the other Small Fry videos.



2. I'm sorry, but this video just didn't hold my daughter's interest. The women who narrarated the video was boring and monotonous. Worst of all, as a native speaker of Japanese, I was offended by the narrator's pronunciation and the obvious lack of input by native Japanese speakers into the video.



3. My 2 year old enjoyes this video & repeats the words. It is fun to watch him 'speaking'another language. The graphics are good & the picture changes frequently keeping small minds attentive. The program built simple sentences slowly. There was also enough repetition to start to learn the words. Overall the best language video I have seen.



4. Since my husband is 1/2 Japanese we really wanted our daughters to learn both the languages of their heritage, especially since my husband regrets that he didn't. Imagine my excitment at finding Bilingual Baby Japanese! It is more than the 30 minutes minimum, and total immersion for that 30 minutes plus, that experts recommend-plus it visually holds their attention. I really like the fact that they take the words used and then put them into a sentence. I am also pleased to say that I have learned alot of Japanese too!!



5. With American settings, food, housing, people, kids, clothing, kitchens and the "Japanese" in English, this is better suited for people wanting to learn English. International Baby 101 is the real thing.

5 comments about Lyric Language - Japanese/English 1.

1. This is the easiest, sweetest way to learn a foriegn language, and Japanese is especially hard to find. My kids literally beg for me to put in this tape.



2. This is a very fast paced tape. The musical background and material is aimed at children. The vocabulary of Japanese words while limited is reinforced thru repetition and music. There was no practice in character recognition as all subtitles were in English. Probably good for early teen or younger. I wish there were more tapes in this series.



3. This video has the right idea, probably, but doesn't really work in the long run. The japanese language is set to music about commonplace events like going to the zoo, surviving a rainy day, etc. The problem is that the songs are not catchy at all and don't keep the attention of children. The scenes, themselves, are not riveting enough to do it either. Therefore, little ones don't stay in the room to learn anything. My kids are eight years old and very vested in learning Japanese, but they watched the video one and a half times, then put it away forever. When I asked them what they learned, they replied that they didn't know. Unsuccessful for kids in this age group. They went back to watching Seven Samurai and spouting phrases like "Twelve bandits to the east!" Even this old black and white movie rivets them more than this vapid little video put out by the folks at Family Circle.



4. We first found this video at the library. Our then-3-year-old son loved it, and still watches it now that he's 4. The so-so production values and mugging kid actors may come across as cheesy to adults, but the music is catchy, and our son now has a slew of new everyday vocabularly in Japanese. Our Japanese friends with young kids like it better than we do, because the vignettes are slices of Americana such as the zoo, amusement park, birthday party, etc. Since it's bilingual, it works just as well for them teaching rudimentary English.
   No Oscars are likely, but this video has its own charm.



5. The way this tape goes from one lyric in Japanese to English and back is confusing, bores my 2 yr old and the same melody is used over and over. I agree with the other reviews: it's better for Japanese kids learning English because everything is set in America. Not fair but that's how every "Japanese" video I've viewed so far is. Where's the true video that includes teaching the characters/kanji?

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