Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, Live, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Penton Overseas Inc
• VHS Release Date: July 5, 1994
• Run Time: 35 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1560153105
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #312,188 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

I was amazed when I found the students repeating the songs and enjoying hemselves."

Product Description

Available in two equally exciting series. Each program includes 35 minutes of live-action music video with bilingual lyrics subtitled on the screen. Bil Keane's famous Family Circus characters introduce each song.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cheesy, but catchy, November 20, 2001

By 

Dave (NW US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lyric Language - Japanese/English 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

We first found this video at the library. Our then-3-year-old son loved it, and still watches it now that he's 4. The so-so production values and mugging kid actors may come across as cheesy to adults, but the music is catchy, and our son now has a slew of new everyday vocabularly in Japanese. Our Japanese friends with young kids like it better than we do, because the vignettes are slices of Americana such as the zoo, amusement park, birthday party, etc. Since it's bilingual, it works just as well for them teaching rudimentary English.
No Oscars are likely, but this video has its own charm.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't hold kid's attention, August 3, 2001

By 

K. D. Proctor "electic reader" (Oregon, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lyric Language - Japanese/English 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video has the right idea, probably, but doesn't really work in the long run. The japanese language is set to music about commonplace events like going to the zoo, surviving a rainy day, etc. The problem is that the songs are not catchy at all and don't keep the attention of children. The scenes, themselves, are not riveting enough to do it either. Therefore, little ones don't stay in the room to learn anything. My kids are eight years old and very vested in learning Japanese, but they watched the video one and a half times, then put it away forever. When I asked them what they learned, they replied that they didn't know. Unsuccessful for kids in this age group. They went back to watching Seven Samurai and spouting phrases like "Twelve bandits to the east!" Even this old black and white movie rivets them more than this vapid little video put out by the folks at Family Circle.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My kids beg for this!, July 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Lyric Language - Japanese/English 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is the easiest, sweetest way to learn a foriegn language, and Japanese is especially hard to find. My kids literally beg for me to put in this tape.