Baby Einstein - Language Nursery

Posted by MediasCenter.com 16 October, 2008

Binding: DVD
Region: Region 1
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Run Time: 162 minutes
ASIN: B00005YUPM
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Manufacturer: WALT DISNEY VIDEO
Release Date: 2002-03-12
Average Customer Review: (From 398 total reviews)
List Price: ~~$19.99~~
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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com:
If you’ve been around babies in the last few years, you’ve seen these newfangled toys that are abstract in color (or just black, white, and red) and make curious, crunching noises. Studies have shown that these types of toys stimulate newborns, expanding the capacity of their little sponge-like minds. That concept comes to the video age in Baby Einstein. This 30-minute tape is called a “video board book” and the creators instruct parents of 1- to 18-month-olds to use it that way: huddle around the TV often pointing out objects and interacting with the child as you would with a book. Bright toys, patterns, blocks, and the like move across the screen accompanied by natural sounds, music, and voices. English, Japanese, Russian, German, and other languages are heard telling nursery rhymes or counting to 20. Now the creators don’t expect your baby to recite “Humpty Dumpty” in Spanish by the end of the tape, but, as they state in the introduction, hearing different languages invigorates a baby’s mind. These educators went on to combine classical music with their program on Baby Mozart and Baby Bach. –Doug Thomas

Product Description:
UPC:786936179705
DESCRIPTION:From the moment babies are born, they use their developing senses to discover the world. In terms of sight, bold patterns in contrasting colors or black and white are initially preferred. As for sounds, Mother s gentle voice, in any language, is music to baby’s ears. Language Nursery: Voices From Many Lands acquaints your baby with the sounds of foreign language by presenting delightful, visually stimulating images accompanied by spoken passages, natural sounds and music — including nursery rhymes sung by mothers in their native languages of English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. It’s a rich, multicultural experience you and your baby can share as you watch, listen and play together! END

Customer Reviews

Why would you use all the languages in one track? by Toni Bautista
Too confusing. I thought this dvd would have a spanish track where it woul go through all the attractions in that language and not just combine the whole thing. I would not recommend this dvd, there are better dvds that baby einstein has. Don’t buy this one.

I don’t understand what is this Video all about by mathildea
What is this video suppose to be? Images and text don’t even connect, it does not catches babies interest… If you want to start your baby with a foreign language you should better try Little Pim series which both catches the baby’s attention and is of great educational quality.Little Pim: 3-Disc Gift Set (Spanish)Little Pim: 3-Disc Gift Set (Mandarin Chinese)Little Pim: 3-Disc Gift Set (French)

Bad for the developing mind by REB
Your child would love watching this video, but she’d also love eating cotton candy and drinking grape soda. Many pediatric and psychological studies have shown that young children know FEWER words for every hour they spend watching videos like this one. Why? Because they aren’t spending time with YOU, practicing their language and social skills. There’s also evidence that young children who watch TV have a greater risk of developing ADHD. Last, toddlers who grow up in homes with the TV always on in the background literally seem to have more trouble hearing themselves think. This hurts their developing linguistic abilities and consequently their abilities to engage silent reasoning.

Please protect your child — don’t let her watch any TV during her early, crucial, developmental years. We only watch TV when our little girl is asleep.

Do a little research on this and you’ll be glad you didn’t buy this video.

Great service. by S. Prince
Thanks so much for the fast service. My order arrived as I expected. I will certainly use this dealer again. Thanks so much.