Baby Einstein - Language Nursery

Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Multiple award-winner including Parents' Choice "Parents' Choice Award" (1997). Exposes your baby to sounds of languages. A great way to interact with your child. DVD zoned for Region 1 only, which is the USA and Canada Age: 1 month+ Manufacturer: Baby Einstein
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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

Average customer rating:

very complicated

Baby Einstein - Language Nursery, Just Tremendous

Great idea, well presented--KEEP DOORS OPEN FOR YOUR BABY

My son LOVES this DVD

this is a great dvd for your BABY - not for ADULTS, folks. Duh.

Baby Einstein - Language Nursery

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
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Product Features:

Features words in English, Spanish, Hebrew, Japanese and more

Includes parents guide to video

Enhances motor skills

Length of DVD: 62 minutes

Length of VHS: 30 Minutes

ASIN: B00005YUPM
Release Date: 2002-03-12

Product Description

Baby Einstein Language Nursery Video The Baby Einstein Language Nursery video acquaints your baby with the sounds of foreign language. The Language Nursery video presents delightful, visually stimulating images accompanied by spoken passages, natural sounds and music. The Language Nursery video includes nursery rhymes sung by mothers in their native languages of English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. The Language Nursery teaches both children and parents the joys of learning another language.

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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

Customer Reviews:

very complicated.......2007-06-17

I did by this dvd from e-bay, when I started to play, its was very confusin for me to operate this dvd, you cant chose a language, you cant come back were you were, I had to read a guide!!! its not supose to be that hard. and no music!!! is this dvd for kids or what? not happy at all, I am afrade to buy another BE.

Baby Einstein - Language Nursery, Just Tremendous.......2007-06-03

Baby Einstein is a wonderful line of videos to help aid in your child's development. Get them off to a very good start with these videos, and this special one, Baby Einstein - Language Nursery. Get them well on the way to a successful future now! Don't wait!

Great idea, well presented--KEEP DOORS OPEN FOR YOUR BABY.......2007-05-29

As other reviewers have mentioned, this is NOT a language-learning program. Your child will not learn any of the languages presented in the video by watching this, not is s/he likely to be "smarter" for the experience.

What you ARE doing is keeping doors open for future language learning. Remember, this video is made for infants. Beore 6 months of age, infants are able to hear all phonemes (basically, sounds) in any language in the world. After that critical age (and note how young it is!), babies begin to lose this ability.

So no, your baby Einstein, haha, will not learn German from this video. But should he decide to learn it later on, and you continue to expose him to the sounds now and then, he'll have the mental tools to learn to speak accentless German.

Note: I have a master's from Georgetown University in Spanish Linguistics, as well as my own 4 month old son. Though I have studied the documentation for these claims about critical periods for language learning, I always had my secret doubts about what infants really knew. I can tell you from personal experience now that my son prefers people speaking English and Spanish to any other lanugage. Even when he's crying, when the English or Spanish parts of the video come on, he stops and looks at the TV, but does not do this for any of the other lanugages! I'm astonished.

My son LOVES this DVD.......2007-03-29

My son has LOVED this DVD since he was one month old and now he is 18 months. At such a young age, babies are captivated by certain images and sounds, and this DVD has it all. I don't feel it deserves the bad reviews parents give. If babies could vote they would give it a 5 star all the way!!

this is a great dvd for your BABY - not for ADULTS, folks. Duh. .......2007-03-22

I agree with a previous reviewer who stated that the negative reviews of this DVD are from parents/caregivers who are evaluating it on their own enjoyment and/or understanding of it. Of course it's going to be boring or confusing to an adult or even to an older baby. The point of the Language Nursery video ISN'T to teach an infant how to speak the languages that are used on it...it's just supposed to expose them to the different sounds being spoken. The concept here is the same as when you read your child a book or play a DVD for them in English - exposure to the different sounds used to communicate = stimulation/development. That said, I don't think any of the Baby Einstein DVDs actually encourage development at all. That's why the AAP recommends no TV viewing till they're at least 2. These DVDs are nothing but a quick distraction for when you have to have 2 hands to fold laundry or mix their cereal up. Period. This is my daughter's favorite B.E. title, we have a few others. The gentle pictures and music are something she is absolutely glued to the entire time. And that allows me to get something else done for 20 minutes. If you're looking for this DVD to accomplish something else, you're going to be disappointed. I haven't seen one baby yet who is at least 1 month old who doesn't like this one, and hopefully that's endorsement enough. We're at 6 months and she still loves it.

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Baby Einstein: Language Nursery DVD

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Baby Einstein
Language Nursery DVD
Walt Disney Video
Stimulate and delight your 1- to 18-month-old baby.

ASIN: B000QTODWQ

Product Description

Released on March 12, 2002 and voted a Video of the Year by Parenting Magazine, this Baby Einstein Language Nursery DVD for children from Walt Disney Video is rated UNR and features visual and multilingual experiences to stimulate and delight your 1- to 18-month-old baby.

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