Product Details

• Actors: Jason, Jenny
• Directors: Min Tung, Joe Chang
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Mandarin Advantage LLC
• DVD Release Date: July 28, 2008
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001BZ9GRG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,579 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not just a bunch of new words, August 15, 2009

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Lisa and Naomi's mom (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Journeys to the East: The River Dragon King (DVD)

We now have one of each of the more popular Chinese language DVD programs on Amazon (Little Pim, Mei Mei, Follow Jade, Kai-Lan) including this title. What makes it outstanding is that individual words/objects introduced at the start of the story are integrated into full sentences by the end of the story. There are multiple ways to practice the new words which make it fun and memorable. The Play & Learn with Mei Mei #1 also introduced sentences but was inconsistent about explaining all the additional words. The (English/Chinese) subtitling in JTTE are very handy, are accurate, and consistent.

For future DVDs in the series, I'd ask that they modify or exclude song sequences like the one that the River Dragon God sings. It's just awful to hear IMHO. <grin> There is also at least one very notable difference in pronunciation ("er") between this program and all the others I've seen. I'm a native-Cantonese speaker though (not Mandarin) so I can only assume that perhaps these voices hail from different parts of China/Taiwan?

Anyways, it has a nice story formula that has worked well in video games and classic Chinese stories. I couldn't help playing along out loud.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Two-Year-Old LOVEs This DVD!!, September 27, 2008

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J. Fu (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journeys to the East: The River Dragon King (DVD)

Although this DVD is for kids 3 and up, my two-year-old daughter certainly enjoys watching it and has learned quite a few words and phrases from it! My husband and I are also very impressed with this DVD. First, the storyline is very interesting, which holds my daughter's attention (and our attention). Plus, it's very interactive and engaging, getting kids involved in counting and naming body parts, colors, and fruits. Second, the characters are very appealing. It introduces positive role models that inspire kids to speak Chinese. Third, it utilizes several fun sing-along songs that reinforce new words and phrases. My daughter loves these tunes so much; she would sing them over and over. We've also tried to use these songs to teach her other new words. Fourth, the Chinese text is up on the screen, which helps kids to learn Chinese characters as well. Finally, we like the words review in the end and the introduction of Chinese culture and ancient capital city. As a Mandarin speaker myself, I highly recommend this DVD!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best children's mandarin(chinese) learning video !!!, March 16, 2009

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O. robles (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journeys to the East: The River Dragon King (DVD)

Journeys to the east "The river dragon king" had my 2 year old son speaking some mandaring words on the first day he watched it. The songs are catchy and emphasize the words being taught.

We bought "The adventures of Walker & PingPing" and "Ni Hao Kai-Lan: Super Special..." and both of these videos paled compared to "river dragon king" in the amount of vocabulary words taught and length of the video.

If you're seriously trying to get your child to learn basic Mandarin while having fun this is the video for them.
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