The DVD is a little dated in my opinion, but it doesn't take away from the effectiveness. Like Mei Mei's Dance and Learn, we'll check this out from our library again.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Play & Learn Chinese with Mei Mei, vol. 1 - DVD Review
This is the second DVD we've watched from Mei Mei. This one was much more helpful for us in our vocabulary building and practice. Mei Mei goes through a topic, then a child does as well. We're only familiar with numbers, some body parts, and some greetings at this point-so we found these sections the most helpful. She also covers family, actions, games, songs, and ages.
The DVD is a little dated in my opinion, but it doesn't take away from the effectiveness. Like Mei Mei's Dance and Learn, we'll check this out from our library again.
The DVD is a little dated in my opinion, but it doesn't take away from the effectiveness. Like Mei Mei's Dance and Learn, we'll check this out from our library again.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Mei Mei Dance and Learn DVD Review
We checked out two Mei Mei DVDs from our local library last week. We watched Mei Mei Dance and Learn first. Well, we didn't really watch it all. We had it playing while playing trains. Mei Mei introduces the DVD and girls sing and dance to each song. It retails for just under $25.
It was sweet, but not something I think we'd sit and watch. Some of the tunes were familiar-but they had different words to it. I appreciate that the words were on the screen in English, Mandarin Chinese characters and Pinyin. It didn't hold E's interest. We had it play twice through while we were playing with other toys. She would glance up every now and then-especially during the portions where they would count, I assume because these were recognizable words to her. Perhaps this will be a DVD we can try in another few months or so.
It was sweet, but not something I think we'd sit and watch. Some of the tunes were familiar-but they had different words to it. I appreciate that the words were on the screen in English, Mandarin Chinese characters and Pinyin. It didn't hold E's interest. We had it play twice through while we were playing with other toys. She would glance up every now and then-especially during the portions where they would count, I assume because these were recognizable words to her. Perhaps this will be a DVD we can try in another few months or so.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Love our Library!
We made a quick trip to our library today for a book I'd reserved. I figured we'd check out a few new books for E and see if they had any Mandarin resources. I don't know why I didn't before?!
They didn't have that many books-but I checked out 2:
They also had a "Learning Bag" with a large case of DVDs called Muzzy-by the BBC. I've never heard of this.
I looked in the DVD section and was surprised at the selection of foreign language learning DVDs. I picked up two to try:
They didn't have that many books-but I checked out 2:
They also had a "Learning Bag" with a large case of DVDs called Muzzy-by the BBC. I've never heard of this.
I looked in the DVD section and was surprised at the selection of foreign language learning DVDs. I picked up two to try:
- Play and Learn Chinese with Mei Mei - 1
- Dance and Learn Chinese with Mei Mei
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