Exploring Hindi

Director: Ruchira Agarwal
Studio: Baby Hindustani
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
Children learn Hindi through this fun filled DVD. Exploring Hindi introduces basic vocabulary and rich sounds of Hindi through playful children, vibrant everyday objects, colors and numbers. Children will learn to count in Hindi and identify basic colors, while listening to the beautiful and stimulating music of Mozart (Sonata in C Major, Variations Theme - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star etc.)

By watching Exploring Hindi, your child will: (1) learn to identify and name about 30 common objects - For example ducks, butterfly, milk, bananas etc. (2) learn some basic antonyms - For example open/close, front/back etc. (3) learn to recognize colors - For example red, blue, green, yellow, black and white (4) learn to recognize colors in association with an object - For example yellow bananas, green grapes and white eggs (5) learn to recognize numbers from 1-10 (6) learn to count objects - For example, count six bananas one by one (7) learn to put it all (object, number, color) together to form simple phrases - For example, learn to count six yellow bananas.

Children learn best while having fun. Your child will laugh, dance and embark on a fun filled journey of fascinating objects. The free flowing pace, bright and friendly images, playful children, and humorous sound effects will help keep your child's attention. Children also learn by consistency and repetition. Like a favorite book, they will want to watch this again and again while building a foundation for spatial, cognitive and language development.

Description

Children learn Hindi through this fun filled DVD. Exploring Hindi introduces basic vocabulary and rich sounds of Hindi through playful children, vibrant everyday objects, colors and numbers. Children will learn to count in Hindi and identify basic colors, while listening to the beautiful and stimulating music of Mozart (Sonata in C Major, Variations Theme - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star etc.)

Available in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu.

Customer Reviews:

Good effort but..........2007-06-22

So first of all, its a copy of the Baby Einstein videos, sort of takes ideas from many of them and puts them all in on DVD with hindi words spoken in the background. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I take away points for lack of any original ideas. Also, the music ideas are taken from the Baby Einstien videos, might have been nice to have Indian Instrumental music in the background instead of western classical!

And then, there is this long nasal intoning of the words. Like "paaaani" or "chaaaaaand" which isn't really how we pronounce the words. I understand that words needs to be spoken slowly for kids to understand them, but the video takes it a bit beyond the reasonable!

And finally, the grammar is wrong in various places, especially when talking about 1 and many. E.g. she says something like "nau gaadi" ( 9 cars in hindi) which isn't right - needs to be "Nau gadiyan". I may not have the example exactly right, but you get the idea.

All that said, my son does like to watch it, but I worry that it isn't teaching him the language correctly. And I suspect he watches because its a lot like the Baby Einstein videos he loves.

So, I'd say pass on this, teach your kids hindi yourself if you can!

Only for those with a Hindi speaker in the house........2007-06-15

It is a decent movie. It introduces Hindi to young children well. It is mildly entertaining and is helpful for counting and such. Probably best for kids under 5. Also, the music is loud, and the voice not terribly clear, so it is a good idea to watch it with you kids and say the words for them too (not just have them watch it idly). It helped me introduce Hindi to my kids (husband is Indian, I'm not) which they probably wouldn't get much of otherwise.

Incredible!.......2007-05-05

This DVD is extremely well made, the best and most professional Hindi learning product for small kids. Has taught my 2-year old lots of Hindi words... The style is based upon the super-popular English Baby Einstein series, and it definitely lives up to the standards that the Baby Einstein series is known for.

FANTASTIC .......2007-04-11

This is an excellent dvd for kids,my kids love watching it over and over again.There should be a part 2 also.This is a great gift for kids.

My baby loves this dvd.......2007-03-15

I can understand what the previous poster is saying about the volume. Being a non-Hindi speaker, I realized from my husband(Hindi speaker), that I was saying some of the words wrong. It is hard at times to make out what is being said.

On the other side, I think it is a perfect dvd for children under 3. It is modeled after the "Baby Einstein" dvds. My baby is 11 months old and loves watching other children and babies. So, it is a perfect way to hold her attention as she listens to Hindi. She is starting to use some of the words and sounds. So, in that way, I think this DVD is very educational and helpful.

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