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Spanish: A Bilingual Music Program (The Complete Lyric Language) (Spanish Edition)

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I bought the CD version of this in a local bookstore. I just took a chance on it, because I hadn't read any reviews or heard anything about this CD before. I was pleasantly surprised!

My daughter (age 5) and I (age much greater than 5) listen to this CD often, and have both learned a lot of words (and grammar) from it. It's really creative how they've combined English and Spanish into the same songs. During the course of the songs, they switch between English/Spanish and Spanish/English, so this CD would be useful and enjoyable both for English speakers learning Spanish as well as for Spanish speakers learning English.

Don't be fooled by the cartoon-like packaging. The songs are very well written and performed. They do make rare references to "Dolly" and "Billy" (the "Family Circus" characters) at the beginning of some songs, but it doesn't detract from the quality of the songs.

We've found that the tunes are quite catchy. This CD was an encouragement to me that I could learn Spanish, and after picking up quite a bit from these songs, I've started studying Spanish more intently (via some audio courses). A booklet containing the lyrics is included with the CD version (and maybe the tape version too?), which is helpful for studying/understanding the lyrics.

I rarely write Amazon.com reviews, but I was surprised that there were no reviews for this item yet, and felt that it really deserves a good word.

My only regret is that this is not the first in a series of CD's! It would be a really fun way to learn even more Spanish.