Spanish for Beginners: Los Animales (Animals)

I am white and my husband is Cuban. We want our 13 month old son to be bilingual, but we do not live close to any of my husbands family so it is hard with just him speaking spanish. These videos are great! I am even learning because they make it very obvious without translation what they are talking about. The video is a little short, but so is my 13 month old's attention span so it's okay. He watches the video contently the entire time and sometimes I can play it again about half way through. Love this one and the other one by the same company.

A good dvd but the whole thing is in Spanish which is great if the learner has some background in the language, otherwise I feel the person will feel a little lost. Great songs!

My 20 month old is hooked on this DVD. I keep this in my mini van player. He talks back and laughs throughout the video. This is great exposure to the Spanish language.

I really like WhistleFritz! It doesn't go too fast in speech, it uses mostly real pictures rather than just cartoons, and the narrator, a native speaker, is well-spoken and enthusiastic. As a Spanish teacher, I'm always looking for good tools to encourage my students and families to get more practice at home. Their music CD's are excellent as well!

So why only 4 stars? I felt that the amount of practice and vocabulary presented in the DVD was a bit limited, and the 25 minutes didn't do justice for the price of the DVD, though it's very professionally done. That's almost a dollar per minute, and about that per word as well. For a classroom, daycare, or another Spanish program, or a tool that you can show to many students, this is a good purchase - or if you have several children. But for a family with one child or two, I think I'd be a bit disappointed that they "just learn animals" as my four year old complained. He wanted a bit more, so I think that could be improved upon.

Enjoy this purchase and rest assured that your children will enjoy it, and most likely learn from it, my 19 month old all the way to my 6 year old tolerated the DVD (that's three boys, one girl), and they do not usually watch much TV at all, so that's something. The three younger ones were happy to watch again on another day, the 6 year old (admittedly basically bilingual) said he had "some reading to do."

Over all, great product!
Sra. Gose
Author of Flip Flop Spanish: Ages 3-5: Level 1 & Spanish Fun Activity Calendar

I speak very little spanish but it's my husband's first language so he is very concerned that our 2.5 year old daughter learns it. We recently bought this and she loves it. She thinks it's funny and she pays close attention and has even started to sing along with the songs. The accent of the spanish speakers seems very proper and neutral...you can't tell which country they are from which is good. These videos take some of the guilt out of letting my daughter watch tv...she is actually learning something very valuable from them and tuning her ear to understand spoken spanish. I highly recommend the entire series!