newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6179 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 1 of 6 10 February 2013 at 4:52am | IP Logged |
My four year old son has recently starting using some Spanish words that he learned from Dora the Explorer. Does anyone know of something age appropriate that I can play for him in the car? I guesss ideally it would be some music designed for kids learning Spanish though I am open to other suggestions.
Edited by newyorkeric on 10 February 2013 at 4:53am
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James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5175 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 2 of 6 12 February 2013 at 2:09am | IP Logged |
Check out "Little Pim." It is Pimsleur for little kids about that age. My son did it and liked it when he was five and I recall thinking it was good for him, but, unfortunately, I don't really remember too much about it.
He also did a program called "Super Gato" which had audio, songs and a follow along book.
You are right about music. The songs in Spanish seemed to work best for my son. There are also a lot of good CDs with songs. I found a great one at my local library and he loved it.
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languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 4900 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai
| Message 3 of 6 18 February 2013 at 4:47pm | IP Logged |
A song that my nieces really like is the Spanish version of twinkle twinkle little star:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBzET2Vumbw
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petteri Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4732 days ago 117 posts - 208 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 4 of 6 18 February 2013 at 5:21pm | IP Logged |
Oye el sapo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbX0JT98ms
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4709 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 5 of 6 18 February 2013 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
There's a good series of language learning songs called "Lyric Language", made by Living
Language I think. A long time ago I made flashcards of all the words in the German
version, and it contained about 450 different words in total. Each line of the song is
sung in one language, then repeated in the other. At first, the foreign words just sound
like nonsense, but with repeated listening more and more words become clear.
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6179 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 6 of 6 19 February 2013 at 2:21am | IP Logged |
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.
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