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January 18, 2013

Learning French Through Little Pim

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Reviews French, Learning Language

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) is the first three Digital Downloads which the kids have seen. I showed the videos to all 3 kids and they were fascinated by the antics of little panda and his friends Bob the Bobcat and Lola the Elephant. We also viewed Little PIM Fun with Languages – French – Volume II as a follow up to the first set.

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 17, 2013

[Book Review]-The Money Code by Joe John Duran,CFA

Dominique Book Review, Parenting and Kids Managing Finances

The Money Code

The Money Code: Improve Your Entire Financial Life Right Now by Joe John Duran, CFA is a comprehensive short read about how you can improve your current financial situation.

In the 10 chapters of the book you will learn about the lessons that Jack had gone through while managing his money.

Joe starts of the book by mentioning that Money is only good for three things

1. Avoid pain—by protecting you and helping you to take care of what you’re afraid might cause pain in the future.

2. Feel good—by getting you the things that provide you with happiness and satisfaction
3. Take care of the ones you love—by meeting your obligations to family, community, and society at large

He goes on to share the 5 money secrets and how they affect all decisions which you make regarding money. In subsequent chapters Joe talks about how important it is to know the following

1. Clear understanding of what is currently most important to you in life.

2. What you are willing to adjust to meet your goals.

Through the online lessons that Jack went through with the Alchemist he learned more about his own thought process regarding his finances and he learned how to prioritize what he needs against what he wants financially.

My thoughts

I found this an excellent book as it makes one examine what triggers purchases and woes about money in a person. It also teaches us how to plan the usage of money rationally. How we can control our financial life by taking charge of our spending patterns.

We can control our spending, savings, timing on when we need to make major financial changes and the amount of risk we want to take. Reading the book makes me think through in more detail preventing me making any hasty decisions regarding my finances. I’m blessed to be living with a CFA who does make prudent decision regarding our family finances.

The tips shared in this book are applicable to any lay person and can really change your financial status.

Get your copy of The Money Code: Improve Your Entire Financial Life Right Now to learn more about managing your money.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book for review purposes. All opinions are 100% my own.This post has a compensation level of 3. Please visit Dominique’s Disclosure page for more information.