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Already a proven home-study program, the "Language for Children" series is making noise with this updated, integrated book-plus-audio edition. Along with its charming visuals and lively activities, the series now provides in CD format the stimulating sounds of language to entice preschoolers through primary graders into learning a second language. Cute, catchy songs and the humorous, serial adventures of SuperCat are sure to captivate the imagination and foster language acquisition. Each set in the series contains an 80-page full-colour activity book coordinated with two 60-minute CDs as well as a Parent/Instructor CD packed with helpful tips. Together, children and parents can master basic language skills, including making introductions, counting from 1 to 20, and describing objects. The perfect package for parents and teachers who want to familiarize three- to nine-year olds with foreign languages and cultures.
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Catherine Bruzzone has more than 20 years experience teaching languages to children and developing innovative language-learning programs.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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Based on the three 5-star reviews that were on the amazon website before I ordered, I decided to buy this learning pack to help my grandson (5 and a half years old) learn French. I have taught French to older children and adults of all ages and needed some materials to start off a younger child.
First of all the book is rather short at only 67 pages - lots of pictures and some large print - plus appendices giving word lists and song lyrics. The CDs do not have a track listing - a major shortcoming in my opinion as it is useful to be able to pick up from where you left off or go back to an earlier song or topic. This means you have to keep a note of the tracks or write them in the book. And the spoken instructions are not always on separate tracks to the songs and exercises making it almost impossible to pick up a specific place on the CD. The spoken instructions refer to "re-winding the tape"! No one at McGraw Hill has updated this since they obviously switched to CDs which is pretty poor. Perhaps that's why no-one has got round to drawing up a track listing.
The book and exercises are somewhat meagre. The pack looks quite large but, like those expensive cosmetics, when you open it you find there are 3 CDs (one of which is for the parent or instructor) and a rather slim book. If the packaging fitted its contents you'd be hard pressed to justify the price I suppose!
One thing in its favour: the speakers on the CDs are native French speakers with clear diction. There are also some useful ideas for consolidating learning. BUT I am having to supplement this pack with my own materials and ideas to do a really good job of teaching French to a complete beginner. This is probably fine if you want to use it to reinforce learning that is already taking place at school or elsewhere, but in my opinion it's not enough on its own.
First of all the book is rather short at only 67 pages - lots of pictures and some large print - plus appendices giving word lists and song lyrics. The CDs do not have a track listing - a major shortcoming in my opinion as it is useful to be able to pick up from where you left off or go back to an earlier song or topic. This means you have to keep a note of the tracks or write them in the book. And the spoken instructions are not always on separate tracks to the songs and exercises making it almost impossible to pick up a specific place on the CD. The spoken instructions refer to "re-winding the tape"! No one at McGraw Hill has updated this since they obviously switched to CDs which is pretty poor. Perhaps that's why no-one has got round to drawing up a track listing.
The book and exercises are somewhat meagre. The pack looks quite large but, like those expensive cosmetics, when you open it you find there are 3 CDs (one of which is for the parent or instructor) and a rather slim book. If the packaging fitted its contents you'd be hard pressed to justify the price I suppose!
One thing in its favour: the speakers on the CDs are native French speakers with clear diction. There are also some useful ideas for consolidating learning. BUT I am having to supplement this pack with my own materials and ideas to do a really good job of teaching French to a complete beginner. This is probably fine if you want to use it to reinforce learning that is already taking place at school or elsewhere, but in my opinion it's not enough on its own.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this to learn with my son to keep him interested and this was a very good start. We listen to the CD sometimes only twice a week but he learns alot. I recommend you take their advice to stop lessons just after they start to get bored in order to keep them interested to learn more. It is nice to see my son take the initiative playing the CD and read the guide book for new words and looks forward to travelling to France.
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This book makes the basics of French easy to grasp. When my 7yr old was about to start at another school that teaches French, I bought this to give him an interest. Just once or twice a week on the way from school and he is able to understand basic sentences, and answer simple questions, giving him confidence in his new school. The songs are catchy and easy to remember. He seems to prefer this to Muzzy which I also bought.
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We used these CDs sparingly on the drive to the South of France and the children loved picking up the words and phrases. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Kerry Johns
One of the best I've seen.
Our family has a small library of French materials for children and this is the one my children enjoy using the most. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 1999
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