Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, Special Edition, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: So Smart Productions
• VHS Release Date: January 2, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005TPCB
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,800 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice video for learning some basic words., May 14, 2005

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Mom Of Many Munchkins (Central WI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: So Smart - First Words [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the few So Smart videos that has words spoken. Here's basically how it goes. It begins with a ball and you hear a pleasant voice say, "Ball. A ball bounced up and down and rolled away. Ball." Next you see a dog and you hear the voice say, "Dog. Woof says the dog. The dog wags his tail and follows the ball. Dog."

The only thing I didn't really like was that there were no words shown on the screen. Most of the other So Smart videos don't have words spoken but they show the words on the screen. This one could have done both, but they left the words off. The peoples faces are so much better then the first So Smart videos. There are 28 words taught and they are ball, dog, cat, bug, car, moon, shoe, hat, phone, keys, truck, train, boat, sun, tree, bird, flower, bear, banana, chair, book, up, spoon, paper, crayon, lamp, house, star.

As a side point, my baby is 19 months and has been watching Signing Time since she was 9 months (Signing Time teaches hearing kids American Sign Language and it's awesome!!). What is so cool is that all the words on this So Smart First Words video we also know in sign language. So, it's a fun way to practice our ASL while watching this video. I have reviewed all the other So Smart videos (and many others) so please be sure to read those too.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars My son begs me to turn this off, August 15, 2002

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MrsGriffin (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: So Smart - First Words (DVD)

My 16 month old does not enjoy this DVD. I think the abstract colors bother him. For example, a dog will be shown in bright colors with black and white patterns thrown in. I'm sure this is to capture a baby's visual interest, but my son doesn't understand why this dog doesn't look like a dog! I don't recall any live action in this DVD, which seems to be more interesting to my son at this age.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars My Baby Finds This Boring, July 1, 2002

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This review is from: So Smart - First Words (DVD)

My daughter is 9 months old. I think this DVD is just too serene and calm for her, but maybe she'll gorw into it. Art design is fine on this, but the music tracks could be better. ... I started my baby on Einstein, Mozart and Bach at about 3 months old and she still is capitvated by each of them. I recently showed her Neighborhood Animals which she loves also.