Play and Learn Spanish (Book + Audio CD): Over 50 Fun songs, games and everdyday activities to get started in Spanish (Play and Learn Language) [Hardcover]

Ana Lomba (Author), Marcela Summerville (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071441484 | ISBN-13: 978-0071441483 | Publication Date: November 23, 2004 | Edition: 1

Over 50 fun songs, games and everyday activities to get started in Spanish!

From taking a bath to going shopping, books in the Play and Learn Language series turn everyday routines into fun language-learning activities for parents and children. Packed with lively four-color illustrations, each package features:

• Fun songs, games, and activities
• Key word illustrations
• Engaging comic strips
• Sidebars with fun cultural information
• English translations for all activities

Packaged inside each book is an audio CD that includes all the songs, games, and expressions in the course.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The fun, easy, and natural way to get kids started in learning Spanish

Young children have an amazing capacity for picking up new languages, and every parent is a natural-born language teacher. Now Play and Learn Spanish introduces a unique approach to getting kids started in Spanish that is as fun as it is easy.

Instead of drills and boring grammar exercises, you get loads of fun games, activities, and songs that let you seamlessly integrate the Spanish language into your everyday life. From taking a bath to going shopping, making lunch to driving in the car, Play and Learn Spanish turns daily routines into fun learning adventures for you and your child to enjoy together. No need to set aside extra time in your busy schedule--with this program, you learn as you live. And you’ll be amazed at how quickly you see results.

Play and Learn Spanish is packed with lively color illustrations and features:

• Songs, games, and activities that make language learning natural and fun
• Key-word illustrations to help with the retention of important words and phrases
• Whimsical comic strips that put Spanish in a real-world context
• Sidebars with fun cultural information about everyday life in Spanish-speaking countries
• English translations for all activities
• A sixty-minute audio CD containing all of the book's songs, games, and expressions

With Play and Learn Spanish, it won’t be long before you hear your child say he or she wants to give you un beso muy grande de buenas noches (a big good-night kiss).

About the Author

Ana Lomba is the owner of Ana Lomba Early Languages LLC, a company offering lesson plans, how-to guides, storybooks, and applications for parents and teachers of young children learning languages. Marcela Summerville is the owner of Spanish Workshop for Children, an award-winning Spanish immersion program for young children in Philadelphia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 60 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 23, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071441484
• ISBN-13: 978-0071441483
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

81 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's one of our favorites!, March 1, 2006

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K. Bryant - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Play and Learn Spanish (Book + Audio CD): Over 50 Fun songs, games and everdyday activities to get started in Spanish (Play and Learn Language) (Hardcover)

This is a TERRIFIC cd!

It covers 28 scenarios:

Good morning
Ready for the day
Let's Go Outside
Let's Cook
Lunchtime
Dinnertime
In the Kitchen
Bath Time
Good Night
Playtime
Let's Be Firemen
Let's Imagine (pirates, princesses)
In the Car
Playing Sports
Going Places
Let's Go to the Park
Let's go to Fun Places
Let's go to the Museum
Visiting Family
Animals
I Don't Feel Well
Happy Birthday
Let's Go to the Beach
In the Spring
In the Summer
In the Fall
In the Winter

In each scenario there's a dialogue between a mother and child using everyday vocabulary. For instance in the dialogue about getting dressed (Ready for the Day):

Time to get dressed!
Let's look in the closet.
Let's see - pants, skirts, shirts, t-shirts...
What do you want to put on?
Do you want the red skirt?
...
Very good. Put in your arm.
Put in your other arm.
Put in your head. All done!
...
Wow, how nice you look!

There are about 20+ songs interspersed between the dialogues. There's a really cute one about putting things away that we use often. ;) Also, there are cultural notes, little cartoons, suggestions for teaching your child Spanish and main vocabulary words with illustrations. (English translations only in the book, but not on the cd which I like - except for a brief intro.)

What I really like is that instead of just going over words on their own, with this book, one can learn to put them to use - really using the language.

I'm currently teaching my sons (3,6) Spanish and this is by far one of their favorite cds. I'm looking forward to more Spanish-language materials from Sra. Lomba.

45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Perfecto" for teachers and parents ... ¡bravo!, January 31, 2005

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Susan "Susan" (Eastern Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Play and Learn Spanish (Book + Audio CD): Over 50 Fun songs, games and everdyday activities to get started in Spanish (Play and Learn Language) (Hardcover)

Well, not only is this a GREAT teaching resource, but Ana's website is also a wealth of information and links for the parent and/or teacher looking for resources to teach preschoolers (and young children) Spanish as a second language. A little over a year ago I started my own program teaching Spanish to young children and this is a main resource I use to plan thematic curriculum. For parents who are concerned about their Spanish skills, the included CD makes it an even better bargain! Gracias por todo! Ana is now focusing on publishing 2nd language materials and resources for children. I can't wait to see what she comes out with next.

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the daily caregiver, February 5, 2007

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Diane Yaghoobian (Stowe, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Play and Learn Spanish (Book + Audio CD): Over 50 Fun songs, games and everdyday activities to get started in Spanish (Play and Learn Language) (Hardcover)

This is an excellent tool but it is not the most useful if you are NOT the basic caregiver of the student. It is set up to wake the child, wash him, have breakfast, get dressed, etc. all done with Spanish songs and expressions, as you would do as the parent in English. But as a teacher, you would have to "act out" these scenarios- if you are not the one who oversees his daily activities. I am teaching my grandsons. It was fun for them to pretend they were waking up or dressing to go outside in the hot/cold weather, but it was not frequently repeated (and therefore reinforced) because I am not part of these routines. Accordingly, this is most useful for a parent who wants to introduce Spanish smoothly into a child's daily life, raising them "as if" bilingual.