Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, Digital Sound, DTS Surround Sound, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Language Tree
• DVD Release Date: May 11, 2004
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00028A672
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,395 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

With Language Tree, learning Spanish has never been easier or more natural. Learn Spanish with Carlos & Chiquitita introduces Spanish in a way that kids love and understand. Filled with cool characters, colorful images, and fun sing-along songs, this DVD is sure to engage your child from start to finish. Carlos and his cute chihuahua, Chiquitita, teach useful phrases and vocabulary words appropriate for everyday situations, such as meeting and greeting, bathing, playing with friends, eating and drinking, and much more. Narrated and subtitled in English, Learn Spanish with Carlos & Chiquitita is perfect for beginner Spanish students ages 3 and older.

* Incorporates Language Tree’s breakthrough Multi-Cognition Approach, developed by a Stanford University Cognitive Scientist to enhance language learning
* Introduces over 100 practical phrases and vocabulary words
* Includes 6 complete lessons on everyday conversation
* Interactive menus enable quick access to a specific lesson
* Hip, danceable songs reinforce new words and phrases
* Accompanied with a learning booklet so parents can review the lessons with their child

Speaking Spanish is now more important than ever. Make language learning fun and give your child the "Language Advantage".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very happy with DVD, January 29, 2005

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R. Voorhis "Anglo dad" (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learn Spanish with Carlos & Chiquitita (DVD)

We are just starting to teach our four and five year olds Spanish, so we bought a few teaching aids, including Learn Spanish with Carlos & Chiquitita. Some items didn't take, but the kids really enjoy this video! The animation is fairly primitive, but for some reasons the kids really like it. The video packs a lot into a half hour (the family, vowels/animals, parts of the body, food, basic phrases, etc.) and the dialog intersperses some more challenging word along the way, so the kids learn more the more they watch. The DVD works particularly well at combining entertaining songs with animation, which our kids ask to watch again and again. It also comes with a helpful guide book to help parents, and includes subtitles in English and Spanish, to help parents who don't know Spanish. I only wish this company had more than one Spanish teaching aid!

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Introduction to Spanish, October 24, 2004

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Phillip B (Glendale, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learn Spanish with Carlos & Chiquitita (DVD)

I found this DVD to be a well-done and creative introduction to a very useful language. New vocabulary and phrases are introduced within the context of different "sketches" where the cartoon characters are in different situations (at dinner, at the farm, in the playroom, before going to sleep). Therefore, what is being taught is generally quite practical. My daughter can now say "please pass me the bread" in Spanish and answers with "gracias". This DVD may be a little fast-paced for younger children, but was appropriate for my 8-year old daughter. Since I don't speak Spanish, I found it very helpful that an English-speaking narrator (a funny lizard) sets up each scene. The dialogues, however, are completely in Spanish which was fine because we understood the context. We need more educational tools like this one.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best alone, good as a supplement., January 15, 2006

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Senora Gose (Bryan, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learn Spanish with Carlos & Chiquitita (DVD)

I bought this to review it for my students - I had some mothers ask me if I thought it would be a good teaching aid. So here's my take on it, as a Spanish teacher:

As a reinforcer to a Spanish class for 3 to 5 or 6 year olds, I think it's a good DVD. It is quite short for the money, but you can bet that the children will get more out of it each time they watch. Alone, I don't know how helpful it willl be - maybe to motivate your child to want to learn more. As an addition to Flip Flop Spanish (a workbook my students use with a CD) it fits very well, and adds a lot - presenting the information in a new format.

All in all, you can find better sources for less money, but my three children (ages 4, 2, and 1) did sit through it and repeat a lot of the words, but I speak to them in Spanish frequently, so it didn't give them anything new.

Sra. Gose
Author of Flip Flop Spanish: Ages 3-5: Level 1 & Flip Flop Spanish: Ages 3-5: Level 2