Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Nickelodeon
• DVD Release Date: July 14, 2009
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00274SITM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,322 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Video Description

From KIDS FIRST!: Enjoy learning Chinese along with your children through delightful stories and joy-filled songs. Kai-lan and her friends take a trip to China to meet Kai-lan’s favorite Great Aunt. While they are there, the little ones learn to face new experiences such as foods they have never tried, clothes they have never worn, and adventures they have never faced before. They learn about a different culture in both city and country settings and meet some new exciting animals, the pandas. As they do all this, viewers learn how to say the word “happy” in Chinese and how to introduce themselves in Chinese. The lessons are reinforced through catchy songs. This title is appropriately paced for the preschool age. It’s not too fast, yet the story keeps moving forward. It’s engaging and entertaining for adults and children as they learn a different language. It broadens a child’s global perspective as they compare similarities and differences between their own lives to the lives of the children in China. It also teaches life skills such as facing new experiences. 96 min.; Ages 2-5.

Product Description

NI HAO KAI LAN'S GREAT TRIP TO CHINA - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Created a love for Chinese in my child, September 18, 2009

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J. Huang (WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Kai-Lan's Great Trip to China (DVD)

We are a bi-racial family and have really wanted our child to learn Chinese along with English. Kai Lan truly has sparked her interest. She is 4. She is constantly coming up to us and asking us how do you say "----" in Chinese. She also tells us words in Chinese that she learned from Kai Lan. She loves watching this movie and insists on watching it at least twice a day. She also now loves learning Chinese. I have every intention of buying all the Kai Lan movies and/or books as they have been a huge plus in helping our child learn Chinese.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great messages for kids, August 23, 2010

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petranela (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Kai-Lan's Great Trip to China (DVD)

My little daughter loves this DVD. I am pleased with the messages it contains regarding respecting differences and trying new things. It's age appropriate (she's nearly three) and fun for her to watch.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fun video for little ones, July 24, 2009

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C. McGill - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Kai-Lan's Great Trip to China (DVD)

The main show in this DVD is A trip to China. In it Kai lan and her friends board a plane and fly to China to meet Kai Lan's aunt and a baby Panda. Of course it is a cartoon, so there are no realistic scenes in it from China, but it does show a little about the cultural difference. Eating noodles and putting on slippers in the house. It also has a section with the famous changing of the mask. The end has a lot of fireworks (which were invented in China).

The moral lesson is about trying new things, and it thankfully does not have the really negative behavior or actions like some of the other episodes.

The meeting the pandas is not realistic b/c it is a family that lives together and of course they talk --- but my little one (2 years old) loved it because they introduced the panda as a bao bao. Which is her Chinese nickname. The main Mandarin word taught is Happy and there is a little song about it that has the word Happy through out it.

The other 2 episodes are Rain or Shine and The Ant Playground.