28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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This was just what I hoped for, May 2, 2004
This review is from: German for Children (Language for Children Series) (Paperback and Audio Cd's) (Audio CD)
I am so happy I chose this item for my children. Although my daughters are only 3 and 5, I wanted something to help them learn basic words and phrases. The lessons are simple with lots of reptition and cute songs. I put the CD on when they are playing and sometimes they participate but just as often not - but later, I'll hear them singing the number song.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome!, June 8, 2005
This review is from: German for Children (Language for Children Series) (Paperback and Audio Cd's) (Audio CD)
Getting ready to move to Germany, I wanted to make sure my kids (ages 4 and 6) were ready for the move. I have bought about any German lessons I can find. The songs on this set are not only tolerable, they are catchy (I catch myself singing them). The kids really enjoy them (though they have problems with the book because they're not quite reading yet). All together, a great set. I, too, wish there was a volume 2!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disorganized, and not a good choice if the parent already speaks German, July 17, 2009
This review is from: German for Children (Language for Children Series) (Paperback and Audio Cd's) (Audio CD)
I'm going to have to disagree with most of the other reviewers here. I tried using this book and audio CD to teach my seven-year-old German, which I already speak, but it's just not working for us.
There are four main problems with this book and audio CD:
1. The German speakers are too hard to understand. They speak very quickly. I can understand them just fine, but my daughter can't, even when she knows the words. This is especially true with the children who speak on the CD. Sometimes these children change their voice to sound like animals and other people, and that makes it even more difficult.
2. The audio CD does not match the book. Even within the the first ten pages of the book, the audio CD sometimes just ignores a page or part of a page. We'd be listening to a lesson and following it in the book, and then the next lesson would skip the rest of the page and jump to the next page.
3. The CD is divided into tracks, but the lessons are not one-to-one with the tracks. That is, you might need to rewind within a track to get to the beginning of a lesson, instead of just starting the track again. I imported the CD into iTunes to make it easier to go backwards and forwards, and I still got confused several times.
4. I found that the general order in which things are covered doesn't make much sense. The book will introduce full sentences and expressions, but not cover the basics. So you will learn to say, "My name is" and "Your name is", but not "His name is" or "Their name is". There's no real coverage of German grammar.
So if you already speak German, and you want to teach your children, don't get this book. Your better off getting a regular book that teaches German vocabulary and grammar the old-fashioned way. You already speak the language, so your children won't need to hear it from someone else.
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