Early Start Mandarin Chinese with Bao Bei the Panda Volume 1 Colors and Animals

Product Description This DVD will provide your preschool-age children an entertaining introduction to Mandarin Chinese. Your children will love Bao Bei the panda puppet, and Chu Chu the cricket, while they teach and entertain! The DVD utilizes common words, phrases, and greetings that provide children with a linguistic foundation that they can actually use conversationally in everyday life. The stimulating visuals and captivating sounds keep children coming back for more! Mandarin Chinese is the language to learn in the 21st Century. Experts agree that preschool-age language learning promotes life-long ease with second languages. Your preschooler is a terrific learner, with amazing energy and eagerness to learn new things. Optimize this opportunity by providing a wonderful introduction of a foreign language that will give your preschooler an edge in the future. The DVD is approximately 30 minutes long. There is a list of the Chinese words and phrases at the end of the DVD in ping ying. Review Simple "Chinese words, phrases, and tones" relating to colors and animals are introduced in this charming title. Hosted by hand-puppet Bao Bei (speaking in a youngster s voice) and Chu-Chu, a bouncing, animated cricket (speaking in an adult voice), the DVD also features ethnically diverse youngsters ranging in age from preschool to elementary school. Bao Bei and Chu-Chu ask questions in both English and Chinese, and the children answer by repeating the new terms, which are pictured in drawings, still photos, and live-action shots. The concluding "Vocabulary" section lists new words in both Pinyin and English subtitles, but without voice-over pronunciation. Backed by classical piano music, this energetic program is also useful for older children interested in learning Chinese. --Eloise Kinney, American Library Association Booklist Magazine Designed primarily for the preschool crowd, this live-action DVD series stars Bao Bei ( Treasure in Chinese), a child-voiced panda hand puppet. Bao Bei, an animated cricket, and a multiethnic cast of children teach viewers simple phrases and words in Mandarin Chinese. Volume 1 introduces basic colors and animal names. It also provides some phrases and words that would be useful in making friends. Volume 2 covers numbers and fruit. Each is well-designed for auditory learners, containing a lot of repetition. Reviews are frequent,