Customer Reviews

Baby's First Sounds: Discoveries for Little Ears

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4 star:		(2)
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2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(19)

 

 

I couldn't wait to get this after reading the description. My son is just starting to talk and I thought the ba-ba-ball and other words they had in the description would be perfect to advance his communication skills. The dvd is nothing like the description. It spends way too much time on foreign languages and not enough time on baby's first sounds! Like the other reviewer said, your child won't learn anything from this...except sheer boredom! My son has no desire to watch it and he loves almost all the other Baby Einstein dvds. It really makes me wonder if they had a children's focus group watch this! Big disappointment to us, especially coming from Baby Einstein/Disney!

This DVD is my son's favorite. He's been watching it since he was about 6 months old, and he's now 16 months. This is digital board book, so the more that you watch it with your child, the more he/she will get out it.

What I like...
1. The quality of the DVD is wonderful. The animation and the pictures are vivid and colorful. It's extremely engaging for little ones.
2. The basic sounds are simple enough that my son can imitate them.
3. The puppets (especially the little lambs and the bumblebee) really help draw the child in. My son jumps for joy whenever the bumble bee comes on screen. (In the tradition of Baby Einstein, the bumble-bee is the host, so you'll see her often.) The little bee makes sounds like she is talking right to the baby. So, my little one talks right back.
4. There is a huge variety of animals (dogs, ducks, turtles, lambs, and hippos, just to name a few).
5. The music is excellent and very soothing. Its perfect for night time since it doesn't get him all worked up.
6. The beginning of the DVD has lots of little kids from all over the world saying "hello" in their various languages. My son waves to them all. Now that I've seen it a couple of times, I say hello back while he waves to the children. I don't speak any languages fluently, so it's a language lesson for me.

At the end of the DVD, you'll hear goodbye in multiple languages as well. I think its great to hear the different sounds that you'll never hear in English, and I firmly believe that when children are exposed to these sounds when they are young, they'll pick up languages faster later on. Having spent a lot of time with multi-lingual small children, I think that kids don't get as confused as we adults do.
7. It's a great intro to phonics.
8. I absolutely love how it reinforces the idea of a loving family. You'll see moms with babies, dads with babies, and moms and dads together.

What would I change?
You'll hear Twinkle Twinkle Little Star about 4 times during the video in various languages. Twice is good, but 4 times? But it doesn't seem to bother my son, so I'm not too worried about it.

Overall, I think this a great DVD. I look at it this way. My son now points to his arm when the lady on the DVD says, "ah...ah... arm." My husband and I never taught him that. If I wanted a DVD to teach my son English words, any DVD can do that. Besides, I think my child will have no problems picking up English in our household. Because this DVD is meant to get them to DISCOVER SOUNDS of all kinds, I think Baby Einstein accomplishes this task.

This DVD will not teach your child much. It has about 5-10 mins of each lang. listed on the dvd case. My daugther will watch the english part then she pays the rest no attention.

I would have given this DVD a 5 star review if it were in English only.

We did not like the fact that they introduced several different languages, and it did not keep our baby's attention as other baby einstein DVDs. Although there may be studies that show babies can learn different languages if introduced early, that was not our intention when buying the DVD. It seems to me this just could cause confusion.

I have given baby einstein several tries and these dvds are just not good. This is last one I am purhcasing. Like for this one again why is everything almost in every other language yet only a few things in english. I would like it if my 7 month old was exposed more to english first since he cant talk yet versus 10 other languages.

This is the only dvd of all the Baby Einstein DVDs I own, that my son will watch again and again. He has watched this from 3 months old and it still holds his attention at 19 months old. I remember thinking that I wished I had another one like it so that I could play something else he would like just as much. I purchased it after visiting my sister who owned this, and this allowed us a little time to do other things while my nephew and my son watched it over and over. I couldn't say that about any other dvd at that time. I think people who are confused by the many languages are confused, but I don't think the babies are confused at all. I normally don't even write reviews on products I have purchased as it is very time consuming, but felt the need because of the negative reviews. All babies are different. My other friend recommended the World Animals one, and my son couldn't care less about that one. Oh well, live and learn with your little one.

My little one loves to watch. Though my baby is only 9 months old and doesn't watch the entire video all the way through, it keeps my baby's attention for at least 4-5 minutes at at time. I will be purchasing more Baby Einstein DVD's in the future.

Wherever I go I recommend Baby Einstein products, particularly basing myself on the Baby Mozart and Baby Beethoven DVDs. Seeing that these two had a fantastic effect on my daughter, I thought that Baby's First Sounds may be a good idea.

How wrong! My daughter barely says Ba-ba and we're expecting her to start speaking not only English (which would have been great) but also Spanish, French and - just wait for it - Chinese!

I think this is someone's idea of a bad joke!

I have had excellent experiences with Baby Einstein DVDs but this one is disappointing. I usually cannot pull my daughter away from them however she refuses to watch this one. I don't know if it is just because it is so slow or because of the various languages, but I don't recommend this one at all. Try other Baby Einstein videos because they are usually excellent.