Japanese for Kids Beginner Level 1 V1

I've taken some ASL classes through our community Adult Continuing Education program, so I had some training when I received this DVD. It's an excellent DVD to supplement learning through informal forums such as night school. The teacher in my classes obviously had to move through a set amount of material in a specific period of time, so she had to keep things moving. I wish I'd had this DVD during those classes because, even though it was designed for kids, it covers much of the early material covered in class. I am using it now to refresh my memory since I don't use ASL every day. A very good DVD and very useful for beginners of all ages.

I wish I had known this whole video was just one "Chapter." It was very short for the price, but good enough I will probably spring for future volumes. Because it is aimed at kids, the pace and aids to memory were very useful. I haven't shown it to my 7-year old grandson yet, but as an adult learner I found the lessons easy and fun.

This is an excellent DVD. We are trying to learn Spanish since moving from Missouri to Miami Florida. My three children ages 9, 8, 7 are having an easy time learning Spanish because of this DVD. Easy to understand, fun, and subtitles really help. Highly recommended. Also recommended: "My First Spanish Word Book". This book has GREAT pictures of everyday items each one labeled in English and Spanish. A MUST HAVE for any children learning spanish, or learning Spanish to English.

The video is simple and easy to follow, my son who is 5 enjoyed signing along with the dvd. I have been looking to find help teaching my profoundly deaf son sign language and make it fun,I thought these dvds would be great. $23 for a 40 minute dvd seems kind of a waste because all the info in the dvd is right in the books we already have and we knew most of what they taught already. I though they would go more in depth with the signs, sign more foods and more emotions. But you get 5 food signs, 3 drink signs, 3 emotions, the weather, days of the week, how to finger spell the months, and understanding how to tell what hour of time it is. I would give the product a 1 except i did enjoy it and i did learn a little from it. I cant give it a 5 because I am not completely satisfied. I wish they would tell more of what was in the dvd before you purchase it, had I known it would contain as little as it did i wouldnt have bought it. I also wish they would say it is not geared for hearing impaired children as well. I bought this and volume one, this one came first.

Complete waste of money and waste of time even watching it.There is like no organization or reason to this video. Yes, it has some basic words for some family members, colors, etc but you can find the same content in a much less annoying form using one of the many free apps available for your iphone.The graphics are awful. The sound is awful, some parts very soft some parts very very loud. The songs are annoying. The boy main character is annoying and mumbles. Yeah sure, in real life people mumble and I guess if you really want to learn to speak a language you should learn how to understand mumbling people but I think that's a more advanced skill. For a kid video, I think it's better to have the actors speak clearly and a little slowly.My child was not entertained by this at all and even I lost interest before the whole thing aired.Overall I would give this a big fat LAME and wish I could return it and erase the memory of it from my mind.

My son is 2 1/2 and he enjoys it. He sits down and does not get bored. I have looked into other videos but they are too fast with what they are signing or with their words. I wish the made more of them.

I'm definitely glad we bought this, and will be buying the second one in this series. I'm a speech therapist, and agree that the techniques used for language teaching are very appropriate -- lots of repetition, pairing the same words with different contexts, speaking and singing the same words, and having different people use the same words. Good pairing of auditory and visual strategies.The production values are not the best, so as an adult I'm very aware that some of the acting is stiff ("Feliz cumpleanos, Carlos" as Papa is about to fall asleep at the table). The sound fluctuates in quality and obviously some of it was dubbed in later -- meaning that it sounds as if from a different source. It also looks like the quality of an old camcorder that we had.BUT -- my daughter loves it, watches it over and over, and definitely has picked up some new Spanish from the DVD. The context is very relate-able for her and holds her attention all the way through.

My 4 yr old son has requested the show be turned off several times over now. We do not care for this DVD. Why?--The sound varies a lot -high in the beginning, very low while everyone is talking (the important part) and average for the song(s) at the end.--It has several true/false "quizzes" that take up A LOT of the video run time. It asks things like does ?Como te llamas? mean "How are you"? To me, that is just confusing to kids who are just learning a language and have only heard the phrase twice.--It doesn't hold the attention of the kids but for a minute here or there.--I agree this was a very cheaply produced film and it shows. I wouldn't care if it still did the job, but it's definitely not worth the money paid for it. Maybe five dollars max.--It shows a picture of a train with the word toy under it and says "juguete". This is confusing to kids who can't read. My son immediatly thought it meant train instead of toy.--The phrases are said rather quickly, making it difficult to retain.The only thing the kids seemed to respond positively to was the song "Mis Colores Preferidos". They actually enjoyed it and seemed attentive.I will leave out the other tiny flaws to avoid seeming like I'm nit-picking. I was really disappointed and would not purchase again. We had much better luck with Whistlefritz DVD "Vamos a Jugar."