| (Also known as "Discover France")
Award Winning! -
Creative Child Magazine's "Preferred Choice" 2008 Award (Educational DVDs for Babies and Toddlers category)
Dove Foundation Family Approved Award
Recommended Age: 6 months and up!
Review:
My 19-month-old loves the France DVD. She is mesmerized by it and literally asks for it every day, pointing at the TV saying "video video video." She giggles, laughs, points out and verbally identifies different things in the video (colors, animals, actions, and more). I love watching her delight in the video and I enjoy watching with her while talking her through the different scenes. She likes watching it in either English or French, yet we are a non-French speaking family. The music is terrific and we both enjoy listening to it. My favorite part is watching her jump off the couch to dance her version of the "Can-Can" at the end of the video.
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Highlights:
Cow, mouse, frog, hedgehog and rooster puppets engage their audience from start to finish. The French love their food, and children will, too, by learning about France's most-craved delights. Witness a goat being milked and the process of making goat cheese. Don't be surprised if your child asks if cheese comes from animals. See children in French berets toting baguettes on their bicycles, and others devouring croissants. There is so much to learn: Red and green grapes, when squished, make the best grape juice in the world! Stinky cheese is great! Puppets will cleverly demonstrate how to design a dress and that eggs come from chickens. Children will walk the fashion runway in high French style. And young French chefs will allow a peek into their Vilac kitchen. Parents will be entertained when their children dance and clap to Offenbach's Can-Can masterpiece in the grand, final scene of the DVD.
Discover France (now titled Globe-ToddlersTM Adventures in France) was awarded the Dove Foundation Family Award.
Music:
Music inspires especially French classical masterpieces. This DVD features famous French children's songs, the French national anthem, and classics by some of the most influential French composers of the 17th 20th centuries, including Bizet, Faure and Couperin.
Language Options:
English
French
Other Information:
- 55+ spoken and written words in English and French
- Approximately 43 minutes long
- Bonus features highlight puppets, composers' bios, lyrics and more
- NTSC format (compatible on most PAL players worldwide)
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- Students of foreign languages score statistically higher on standardized tests conducted in English.
- When a child hears and is exposed to a second language early on, studies show new brain waves open that would not otherwise do so. When the child reaches the age of about ten, these brain waves, if not opened, close. As a result, children who are unexposed to multiple languages at an early age may have a more difficult time acquiring new language skills as they grow older.
- Most experts agree that the earlier a child is introduced to a second language, the greater the chances are that the child will become truly proficient in that language.
- Studies have shown -- and experience has supported -- that children who learn a language before the onset of adolescence are much more likely to have native-like pronunciation.
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