Customer Reviews

Bilingual Baby, ITALIAN, Vol 4 [VHS]

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We were given this tape as a gift, because my husband wanted our little girl (age 2 1/2) to learn Italian, even though we don't speak it. She loves it! She gets excited when the opening music starts and the kids start popping up, and imitates the words and sentences throughout the tape.(Her current favorite is, "Quanti bambole? Otto bambole!" (how many dolls? 8 dolls!) which I've actually heard her repeating to herself as she plays with her own dolls. I'm amazed, and proud. This is a great video, and I've just ordered French and Japanese from the same series.

This is an extremely well-made tape. I am a fan of complete foreign language immersion and was happy that there is no English spoken. Italian words are repeated and introduced progressively to create simple, useful sentences. The background songs & the pictures are lively and hold the children's attention. One caveat would have to do with your own child. I was very surprised that my 2 year old didn't like this birthday present, because they would not say the English words that she knew. After a while, she got very upset and we had to turn it off. I'll give it a rest for now, but I'm sure in time she'll love it as much as her older brother does.

The method they use is excellent. My 3 year old repeats the has learned most of the words. My six year old lived in Italy for four years and is bilingual but the tape is a great refresher. We never get thru the whole tape we watch 15 minutes at a time otherwise its overload. I am a native Italian speaker and my only complaint is that the woman does not have a very good accent, how hard could it be to find a native Italian speaker to use for this tape?

My 2 year old has watched this video repeatedly and has mastered the pronunciations of basic Italian. Both the narrator's voice and watching the children on the video captured her attention for the entire video as she found herself repeating all the words and phrases.