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N. Rotenberg より:

Review by N. Rotenberg for BBC Muzzy Spanish Early Advantage Set Language Course for Children
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I bought this product hoping to find a spanish-language video for my young child. We already speak spanish at home and wanted to reinforce it.

This product is horrible. The graphics are poorly done and ancient so they don’t grab a child’s attention in this day and age and the dialogue and story are boring. It is also difficult to understand what they’re saying as the audio isn’t clear either. It’s way too expensive for what you’re getting and my son never got interested in the product. What a waste of my money.

I got stuck with mine as I didn’t return it within 30 days so I’m giving it to the Salvation Army as I find it worthless.

Linda R. Hendrex より:

Review by Linda R. Hendrex for BBC Muzzy Spanish Early Advantage Set Language Course for Children
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Back in the 1980′s we were homeschooling our 3 children, and wanted them to have a second language. We chose the Muzzy German program to start because they were so young and we didn’t want to overwhelm them. They loved it and memorized the whole thing – actually taking what they had learned and communicating with each other with German phrases that were taken from the program and rearranged in original, creative and correct ways. When they were older, we advanced them to a traditional curriculum that was aired on a cable “educational” tv channel. They did well, and seemed to take to it better because they already had an elementary understanding of the language from Muzzy.

Now they are all adults, and our eldest is fluent in German, our middle is passable in German, and our youngest doesn’t have a second language because she chose not to pursue it seriously (she kept changing her mind about which language to learn and gained a basic understanding of several languages without ever mastering one). However they all have a better grasp of the English language and grammer as a result of their early exposure to other languages. Now, our grandchildren are getting started on Spanish with Muzzy, and just like their parents before them, are beginning to speak to each other in little bits of Spanish. They are even inventing little games in which they are experiencing the same incidents in the Muzzy story – especially the part where Corvax creates hundreds of Sylvia clones. It is so funny to hear my 5 year old granddaughter exclaim that she sees herself everywhere! LOL! The story is cheesy, but it seems very real to my granddaughters, and they are deeply invested in this immaginary world!

Muzzy will not teach another languge all by itself, but it is a good place to start with preschoolers. And it never hurts to add other Spanish language childrens videos that you can get on PBS or the public library. As some of the negative reviews stated, the graphics are poor and the storyline is silly, but our kids seemed to get past that pretty easily. In the 1980′s, it did not seem as outdated as it does today, but the video quality and cheesy storyline do not get in the way with kids who are allowed very little TV exposure – even in 2010. Anything of this sort is novel to them and they hang on every word.

I gave it only 4 stars because it is too expensive for what it is. However, you can easily find used sets on Amazon, Ebay, garage sales and thrift stores for much better prices than new… in the 80′s we didn’t have all those resources for purchasing used programs and were forced to pay top dollar for a spanking new set; it stung our very thin pocketbook, but we were still glad we did it. These days, this program can be had for almost nothing. We are borrowing the Spanish sets for our grandkids FOR FREE from the public library in our town. I highly recommend it for people who realize that truly learning another language requires a degree of dedication that makes a person willing to advance past these beginning steps. Our eldest became fluent because she actually lived in Germany as an exchange student for a year. It was a long road to genuine fluency, and she started with Muzzy.

NOBODY WILL COMPLETELY LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FROM MUZZY, BUT THIS IS A GREAT AND FUN START FOR TODDLERS AND PRESCHOOLERS WHO ARE AT A PRIME AGE FOR ABSORBING LANGUAGE SKILLS.

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