Beth Manners' Fun Spanish for Kids: ages 2-6 [Audio CD]

Beth Manners (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1999 | Age Level: 2 and up

Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Honors Award
Winner of a Dr. Toy Award
Winner of a Parents' Guide to Childrens' Media Award

Your 2-6 year old will be entertained by a little Spanish girl, Maria, and her new American friend, Bobby. Together, they fo on a picnic, meet The Three Bears, and learn easy basic Spanish. Stories, activity games, original songs and zany sound effects make it fun to learn: numbers, food, animals, seasons, weather, -- over 100 Spanish vocabulary words in all!

Beth Manner' Fun Spanish for Kids is the award-winning audio created exclusively to start your 2-6 year old's brain-building journey into the fun and excitement of speaking Spanish.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Children are introduced to the Spanish language through stories, short songs and brief, thematic vocabulary lessons. -- School Library Journal

With fun songs and story line, kids love listening and singing along while building a basic vocabulary. -- Family Fun Magazine, November 2006

Young children can learn languages easier if they are given an entertaining format of stories, games and songs. -- Dr. Toy (Stevanne Auerbach, PH.D.)

About the Author

Beth Manners, writer and producer, worked for ten years as a project manager in international business and learned first-hand the importance of speaking other languages. She also observed, from European colleagues living in the states, how easy it is for young children to learn new languages. Upon becoming a mother in 1990, her interest and passion for early-language learning developed. She wrote her first script in 1996 and assembled a team of language teachers, college professors, composers, and foreign speaking child actors and singers to produce Fun French for Kids. She followed up with Fun Spanish for Kids in 1998 and released Magic French for Kids and Magic Spanish for Kids in 2000.

Beth also gives an interactive introduction to French and Spanish for young children at events throughout the Northeast.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Audio CD
• Publisher: Big Kids Productions (February 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966287630
• ISBN-13: 978-0966287639
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #12 in Books > Books on CD > Children's Fiction > Language
  • #27 in Books > Books on CD > Children's Fiction > Music

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

89 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beth Manners' Fun Spanish for Kids, December 16, 2000

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Elizabeth Wright (Castle Rock, Co United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beth Manners' Fun Spanish for Kids: ages 2-6 (Audio CD)

We have been teaching spanish to our four year old for years and are always on the lookout for great music and teaching aids, and in this we have both. Our son loves the story and songs and has played it almost nonstop since we got it a few days ago. I like how seamlessly the learning is meshed in the story line and when specific words are mentioned and translated, it is part of the dialogue of the colorful characters, which takes away the stale monotony that some learn-to-speak-spanish tapes have. The only disappointment I have is that there is no book to go with it.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best!, July 3, 2006

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Trian "Trian" (NY, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Beth Manners' Fun Spanish for Kids: ages 2-6 (Audio CD)

In order to have something to do together, my daughter & I have begun learning Spanish. The idea is great, but finding programs that work for both of us has been more than challenging. There are great CDs out there for adults, but they move to quickly for her & just aren't very much fun. Whats worse, the other kid CD I've tried requires the book in order to get anything out of it. That just doesn't work for us since we do most of our learning in the car.

Having said all that, the Beth Manner's CD is the best thing I have ever come across. It teaches you, just like the adult CDs do, but more slowly so that you can really grasp it & with songs that keep it exciting for kids. It is disapointing, as someone else mentioned, that the pronunciation is not like that in Spain or Mexico (or like most Spanish speaking people's in our area), but that is a tolerable fault.

I also wish the CDs were longer. It was over rather quickly, but seeings how no other kids CD I've come across even compares to the quality of this one its well worth it.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too Much English, July 12, 2007

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D. Ager "Mami" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beth Manners' Fun Spanish for Kids: ages 2-6 (Audio CD)

I bought this CD because of the good reviews here at Amazon. I wish I could return it. What a waste of my money!

Most of the CD is in English. Most of the song titles on the CD are in English and most of the songs themselves are in English. The first two tracks are completely in English.

The way a few Spanish words are taught is by an English speaker saying them and then someone saying them in Spanish. There's not enough of the Spanish words being used in context to make this worth anyone's time.

If you want your child hearing Spanish, this is not the CD for you.