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Bee Smart Baby Multilingual Vocabulary Builder 2

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I bought this DVD based on the one review that existed. Well, too bad for me. This was a waste of my money.

We are a bilingual family and I had high expectations with this multilingual DVD: well, it is so bad! The animations are very boring (the sequences were shot in the 70s...?), as well as the music and not to mention the narrators' comments. Some updates are very much needed.

If you want a GOOD multilingual DVD for your kid, try "Sunny says": made by native speakers in French, Spanish, Chinese and of course, English.

I have the first three videos in the series; this one by far has the worst music, which sounds like a small thing, but over the span of a half hour it is annoying. The way the videos are structured could be better. For example - I should not have to wait through the intro (you can't forward through it) to get to a point where I can hit play. And on the DVD containers, they should list the words that are covered in that particular video.

The bumble bee "Vocabulary Builder 1-5" videos are excellent. They helped my 18-mon son to speak and read greatly. Every word is so well illustrated in the vedio! The best part of them: My son loves these videos so madly and therefoer learned words from them so quickly!!! There are about 20 words in each vedio.

And the "Vocabulary Builder 1-3" have 5 multilanguage that you can choose: English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese. That is 5-in-1 that can save you lots of money. They also have other extra benefits features such as "sign language" and "Question & answer"!

The "Motorized Madness" is also good, it has 10 machines such as "airplane, bulldozer, dump truck, backhoe loader, helicopter, bucket truck, boat, motlecycle, fire truck, and bus." It also explains each part of the machine, like the wings, propellers, engine, cab...

The baby bumble bee surely produce the best of the best infant and kids reading program vedios in the market--as good as Dr. Titzer's "Your baby can read 1-5" DVDs and Dr. Glenn Dorman's "How to teach your baby to read" book.

I love baby bumble bee's "Opposites", "Motorize", "Actions words 1-3" and "vocabulary builders 1-5" the most. Highly recommended!

I wanted to start my daughter on a video so that I would not have to speak and read to her all day. We got her the first video in this series when she was about 4 months old, I could put her in her walker and she would listen to it while playing. By six months she was in love with it, and it was the only time she was able to watch TV, but she would stand at the coffee table for at least 20 minutes of the DVD before wanted to do something else. I let a friend borrow it and she loaned me the Baby Einsteins DVD, which my daughter could not stand to watch, she did not even watch 5 minutes of Baby Einstein, what a bore! Needless to say I wanted to get her the second DVD for her 1st birthday. I was certain that I would like it just as much and my daughter would too. Well it is ok, probably as good as the first one, but my husband found a DVD set called First Impression. He got that for her birthday too. First Impression has 10 DVDs and they are divided by theme, Bee Smart does not, everything is lumped together. They both have good music but First Impression uses multiple genres and it is not the same style music over and over. Both sets use sight and sound, both series repeat the words and coinciding viedo, they are probably other similarities. However, First Impressions has a theme song which my daughter loves, she dances around, clapping her hands when the DVD starts and cheers at the end of the song. She can sit and focus for the 30 minutes the DVD is on, only occasionally does she want down or to do something else. We watch her DVDs 4 days a week for the last 3 months and she is not tired of them yet, neither am I actually. I still put the Bee Smart DVD on but frankly I don't like to any more, just because it lacks the form that First Impression provides. If you can't find the First Impression DVD, The Bee Smart series is a good choice, MUCH better the Baby Einsteins in my book, and my daughters.

Baby Bumbling is a failed attempt to copy Baby Einstein. Most children cried when I popped it in and those who did not cry and hide were not engaged in anyway.

If you want to communicate with your child I suggest Signing Time. Children as young as 13 months learned to Speak, Sign & even READ using Signing Time. They were engaged the entire time and the benefits were visible from day 1!

Baby Bumble is a bad investment, our copies (vol. 1 & 2) pretty much went from mail box to trash basket.