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Vocabulary Builder - Learn Mandarin: for Children 4 & up

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some of the games are fun for my 4 year old daugher, like the matching games. some are not that intuitive, and focus on written character recognition, which is probably beyond what my child can do at this point. You know it is a software designed by a Chinese person when - my daugher and I tried to print out a score card after our exercise and see what prize we are eligible for.... we got a "sorry, you did not score high enough point this time!" very different than other software where you always get some sort of "congrats or good job" message, regardless of how well or not so well you did.

I bought this for my 6 year old hoping she'd have fun using the computer while learning something useful. This wasn't too expensive so I gave it a try.

Considering the price, it is an okay product. If your child is learning Chinese, it is just as it says, a vocabulary builder. There are topics to select and then there are a handful of pictures your child can click on the sound button and first hear a male say the word in Chinese and if you click again, a female speaks. It is very cool that you can click the sound a million times if you need to in order to hear the proper pronunciation, and you will have to do that because no written pronunciation is given. The words are written in Chinese, which is great for learning, but the writing is so small, it's hard to concentrate on it.

There is a feature where your child can record her or his own voice but we haven't gotten that far. My daughter got bored and went back to her Mei Mei dvd (which I strongly recommend. My daughter picked up a lot on the first viewing alone. Was singing in Chinese on the second day! Etc.)

Of course, we don't quit, so we will continue to build vocab with this CD-rom, which isn't so bad when you consider the price.