Customer Reviews

Spanish for Children (Passport Books)

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This is a great way to introduce your children (and yourself) to Spanish. The book is colorful with lots of songs and games. The cassette recordings are very clear and the instructor is warm and cheerful. My 5-year-old daughter and I absolutely loved this! The only problem is, now that we have finished it we are looking for the next step. Highly recommended. P.S. My daughter often serenades us in the morning with her Spanish songs.

I bought this set for my 5 year-old and 8 year-old. For the most part, they and I like it, but I must admit it takes a wee bit of getting used to. You won't be able to just put the tape on and walk away with this set, you'll need to sit with your kids and go through it together. But if you're willing to do that you'll reap some very real benefits, and your kids will too!

This is a great set to introduce Spanish to young kids. I have been using it with my four year old with great success. The book and cassette compliment each other well and really hold his attention. Each chapter contains several simple yet creative games to help reinforce the vocabulary and phrases being taught and ends with an on-going story in the form of a cartoon. I enjoy the program too!

This is a wonderful program that I have successfully used with children from kindergarten through grade three. The kids love the songs and games. It's lively and a lot of fun. Just what learning should be!

Nice product, but tracks 4-11 on disc one have terrible sound quality. I don't know if this was a problem with just my copy, but the publisher refused to replace it, and exchage time had expired on Amazon. Beware. - Johanna

I purchased this set for our five year old daughter. She as "studied" Spanish a bit in her Montessori pre-school program (songs, counting, very simple stuff) and I thought this might be a good was to encourage her to pick up as much Spanish as possible at an early age.
At first I was very happy with the set. The workbook is very colorful and engaging. The CD audio lessons are fun and fairly logically organized. There are one or two songs per lesson that make it fun for children and keep them interested.
However -- somewhere around lesson 3 the audio quality deteriorated dramatically. It sounds as if the CD was copied off of a warped cassette tape or something. It is not totally incomprehensible, but it is hard to listen to. I don't understand this, especially since the first couple lessons were fine. We're going to try a few more lessons and see if the sound returns to normal -- if not, I may have to return this.

I bought this to use with my four to seven year old Spanish class. I didn't use it because I didn't feel it was clearly and concisely introducing words or phrases - it seems a little confusing for that age group.

I do like the bright colors and that there are CD's with the set, as well as the songs (which REALLY help little kids learn a second language.) As a parent and teacher, I just wish it was a little less jumbled in the lessons...Not a lot of writing to do - just reading and listening. There are many more interactive approaches out there, which comes with a CD, or you can get some board books in Spanish by Boynton or Wemberley. Ana Lomba has several good child-focused products as well.

Sra. Gose
Mother, Teacher, Author
Flip Flop Spanish Series

We enjoyed the first couple of lessons, and I was really excited about these cds. Unfortunately, the sound became almost completely incomprehensible after the first few lessons, sounding almost like a robotic or synthesized voice. I see other reviews that complain about this, too, so purchase this at your own risk. It's hard to imagine that a company would ship so many defective cds, especially cds where sound quality and comprehension are the most important aspects!

I was really ready to like this product, because the book is charming, and the presentation of concepts is good. It appears quite kid-friendly. However, the sound quality is the pits. It sounds like an old inferior analog recording put straight over to disk. My opinion is that this is a defective product.

I am a certified teacher, and I am starting a business teaching the Spanish language to homeschooled children for children ages 4 and up. I bought this because I was looking for help developing my curriculum. This set has a lot of fun and easy teaching ideas that can be adapted to many kinds of vocabulary words and levels.

However, I dont like having the parent/instructor's guide on a CD. They should have made the guide as a separate book. It would make life a little easier, especially if you want to quickly look up an activity to do.