Binding: DVD
Region: Region 1
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Run Time: 30 minutes
ASIN: B000G1TERS
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Manufacturer: San Francisco
Release Date: 2006-06-01
Average Customer Review: 
(From 8 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews
Description:
This DVD will provide your preschool-age children an entertaining introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Your children will love Bao Bei the panda puppet, and Chu Chu the cricket, while they teach and entertain! The DVD utilizes common words, phrases, and greetings that provide children with a linguistic foundation that they can actually use conversationally in everyday life. The stimulating visuals and captivating sounds keep children coming back for more!
Mandarin Chinese is the language to learn in the 21st Century. Experts agree that preschool-age language learning promotes life-long ease with second languages. Your preschooler is a terrific learner, with amazing energy and eagerness to learn new things. Optimize this opportunity by providing a wonderful introduction of a foreign language that will give your preschooler an edge in the future.
The DVD is approximately 30 minutes long. There is a list of the Chinese words and phrases at the end of the DVD in ping ying.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful DVDs and customer service by Anita, and I’m a Mom
I bought all four DVDs for my 6moold son and I love them too!I am so excited to hear about the recent filming of the next 2 upcoming DVDs. So glad this company is doing these… I bought some “other” DVDs but nothing compares to the quality of yours!
Not that good by Amber
The audio quality is pretty poor. The background music is louder than some of the voices. When learning a tonal language like Chinese, it is so important to hear the word very clearly. A simple vowel sound changes a word completely. Also, they have small children repeating the words and small children, in any language, do not have the best pronunciation, so words could easily be learned wrong. Most of the video is older children or an adult talking, though. As someone else mentioned, there is a lot of English in the video. This is not at all an immersion method of learning. There is very little vocab taught. The only reason I gave it a second star is because my 2 year old is REALLY into pandas and having a panda teach her anything, helps to her learn it. If there were no panda, I’m not sure it would have kept her attention. She repeats the Chinese just to talk to the panda. We got Learning Chinese and English Together off amazon.com and you learn SO much more, although it is not very entertaining.
My daughter loves this series, and so do we! by Ian
We own all four Early Start Mandarin DVDs and love them! We hope another video will come out soon. My kids have learned a lot from Bao Bei and love to watch the videos over and over again. The videos are entertaining and beautifully filmed. The cast of children is of varying ages and of different ethnicities. The amount of vocabulary taught in each video is not overwhelming to our children, so the videos don’t feel like they are drills to our kids. The kids are learning a lot, though!
Fun way to learn! by Anne M.
This is a very nice DVD. My kids love to watch the Early Start Mandarin Chinese with Bao Bei videos and are learning a lot of new words. I really recommend that you get all of them because volumes 3 and 4 really build on the words learned in the first two DVDs. I haven’t found that it matters if you get them out of order, though.
I am especially pleased to see a multi-ethnic cast and children of various ages. My older child doesn’t find that the DVD is just for little ones. We’re learning a lot as a whole family.
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