Learning French Through Little Pim
French Pack
I’ve been looking around for materials to teach Tiger girl a 4th language and was delighted when Little Pim offered to let me review it’s French series. I’m been intending to expose her to French since she is really receptive to languages at two years old. I wanted her to her french pronounced by actual french speakers so that she will be used to their pronunciation and
Little Pim: Foreign Language and Fun – French, Volume One (Eating and Drinking / Playtime / Wake Up Smiling)
There were short segments of the trio as a lead up to new segments in the video clips which acted as a intro to the 5 minutes topics on eating and drinking, waking up,smiling , playtime, in my home, happy and sad and I can count.
Each segment was repeated twice and the keywords for both feminine and mascuine were being reinforced one after the other. Each clip is 35 minutes long which is just nice for the short attention span of kids in this age range.
Little Pim is available in 10 languages: Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, English (ESL), German, Arabic, and Russian.
My thoughts
I feel that the downloaded clips that we reviewed were excellent material for introducing French to young kids. My kids who are 2, 6 and 8 all enjoyed watching and learning from it. The younger kids were very keen to follow the videos and repeat the words aloud together with it. We will be reviewing these digital downloads off an on and also try to use the vocabulary which they have learned through the digital downloads.
I certainly recommend these clips from Little Pim to get your child started in other languages.
You can learn more about Little Pim from Litlte Pim’s Website.
Disclaimer: I received a digital download of the French pack for review purposes. All opinions are 100% my own.
January 18, 2013 @ 11:54 am
wow 4th language? thats nice! I love to learn french too.. it that video appropriate for me too? hehehe
January 18, 2013 @ 5:04 pm
@aby,
The video would be appropriate for you.. at least not as boring as those tailored for Adult learners keke 🙂
January 18, 2013 @ 3:31 pm
Looks nice… Cute panda on the cover………………..
January 18, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
I’m trying to learn French as well and it’s exciting especially once you learned some of the words and then hear it on some French movie and realized that you can actually understand some of the words. Good luck to you and to learning from languages!
January 18, 2013 @ 5:02 pm
@Daddy Yashiro,
Good to hear that you are learning French too.. another person I can practice French with 🙂
January 18, 2013 @ 6:34 pm
Hubby speaks Iltalian, he teaches me the easy words; but I’m more interested in learning French! 🙂
January 19, 2013 @ 12:12 pm
your little girl speaks 4 languages? wow, i am amazed…looks like she is a smart kid
January 20, 2013 @ 3:20 am
4th language??? Amazing! My husband is Lebanese and the 2nd language of Lebanon is French. Oh how I wish my daughter will learn to speak that language. It’s a must for them. Whenever we go visit Lebanon, I feel like I’m in Paris because street signs, government buildings, private sectors almost all things are in French and under it is a small translation in Arabic. Even their passport is French/Arabic. Goodluck on your kid’s tutorial for this.
January 20, 2013 @ 7:29 am
@Jhari,
Actually we are introducing more then 4 languages to our kids at the moment we speak English, Mandarin and Cantonese to them on a daily basis and am slowly introducing French and Japanese too.