Product Description

Over 50 fun songs, games and everyday activities to get started in Spanish!

From taking a bath to going shopping, books in the Play and Learn Language series turn everyday routines into fun language-learning activities for parents and children.

Packed with lively four-colour illustrations, each package features fun songs, games, and activities, key word illustrations, engaging comic strips, sidebars with fun cultural information and English translations for all activities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10000 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-23
• Original language: Spanish, English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 60 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780071441483
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover

The fun, easy, and natural way to get kids started in learning Spanish

Young children have an amazing capacity for picking up new languages, and every parent is a natural-born language teacher. Now Play and Learn Spanish introduces a unique approach to getting kids started in Spanish that is as fun as it is easy.

Instead of drills and boring grammar exercises, you get loads of fun games, activities, and songs that let you seamlessly integrate the Spanish language into your everyday life. From taking a bath to going shopping, making lunch to driving in the car, Play and Learn Spanish turns daily routines into fun learning adventures for you and your child to enjoy together. No need to set aside extra time in your busy schedule--with this program, you learn as you live. And you’ll be amazed at how quickly you see results.

Play and Learn Spanish is packed with lively color illustrations and features:

• Songs, games, and activities that make language learning natural and fun
• Key-word illustrations to help with the retention of important words and phrases
• Whimsical comic strips that put Spanish in a real-world context
• Sidebars with fun cultural information about everyday life in Spanish-speaking countries
• English translations for all activities
• A sixty-minute audio CD containing all of the book's songs, games, and expressions

With Play and Learn Spanish, it won’t be long before you hear your child say he or she wants to give you un beso muy grande de buenas noches (a big good-night kiss).

About the Author

Ana Lomba is the founder and director of Sueños de Colores, an early language learning program for children from birth to seven years old. Marcella Summerville is the founder and director of the Spanish Workshop for Children.

Customer Reviews

It's one of our favorites!
This is a TERRIFIC cd!

It covers 28 scenarios:

Good morning
Ready for the day
Let's Go Outside
Let's Cook
Lunchtime
Dinnertime
In the Kitchen
Bath Time
Good Night
Playtime
Let's Be Firemen
Let's Imagine (pirates, princesses)
In the Car
Playing Sports
Going Places
Let's Go to the Park
Let's go to Fun Places
Let's go to the Museum
Visiting Family
Animals
I Don't Feel Well
Happy Birthday
Let's Go to the Beach
In the Spring
In the Summer
In the Fall
In the Winter

In each scenario there's a dialogue between a mother and child using everyday vocabulary. For instance in the dialogue about getting dressed (Ready for the Day):

Time to get dressed!
Let's look in the closet.
Let's see - pants, skirts, shirts, t-shirts...
What do you want to put on?
Do you want the red skirt?
...
Very good. Put in your arm.
Put in your other arm.
Put in your head. All done!
...
Wow, how nice you look!

There are about 20+ songs interspersed between the dialogues. There's a really cute one about putting things away that we use often. ;) Also, there are cultural notes, little cartoons, suggestions for teaching your child Spanish and main vocabulary words with illustrations. (English translations only in the book, but not on the cd which I like - except for a brief intro.)

What I really like is that instead of just going over words on their own, with this book, one can learn to put them to use - really using the language.

I'm currently teaching my sons (3,6) Spanish and this is by far one of their favorite cds. I'm looking forward to more Spanish-language materials from Sra. Lomba.

"Perfecto" for teachers and parents ... ¡bravo!
Well, not only is this a GREAT teaching resource, but Ana's website is also a wealth of information and links for the parent and/or teacher looking for resources to teach preschoolers (and young children) Spanish as a second language. A little over a year ago I started my own program teaching Spanish to young children and this is a main resource I use to plan thematic curriculum. For parents who are concerned about their Spanish skills, the included CD makes it an even better bargain! Gracias por todo! Ana is now focusing on publishing 2nd language materials and resources for children. I can't wait to see what she comes out with next.

For the daily caregiver
This is an excellent tool but it is not the most useful if you are NOT the basic caregiver of the student. It is set up to wake the child, wash him, have breakfast, get dressed, etc. all done with Spanish songs and expressions, as you would do as the parent in English. But as a teacher, you would have to "act out" these scenarios- if you are not the one who oversees his daily activities. I am teaching my grandsons. It was fun for them to pretend they were waking up or dressing to go outside in the hot/cold weather, but it was not frequently repeated (and therefore reinforced) because I am not part of these routines. Accordingly, this is most useful for a parent who wants to introduce Spanish smoothly into a child's daily life, raising them "as if" bilingual.