Product Description

Award-winning Follow Jade! Learn Chinese: Let’s Go To Market in China teaches basic Mandarin Chinese. Children will visit a market and farm in China, and learn about fruits, animals, body parts, action verbs, and more. Children learn while having fun, through Jade’s engaging and interactive teaching style. Key vocabulary words are shown on screen with Romanized Pinyin spellings, and each section completes with a special review to enhance learning. DVD contains chapter marks and interactive menus.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67909 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-08-20
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Mandarin Chinese
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 30 minutes

Review
Follow Jade! Learn Chinese is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award. The Mom's Choice Awards honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, Ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times Best-Selling Author; LeAnn Thieman, Motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books; Tara Paterson, Certified Parent Coach, and founder of the Mom's Choice Awards. Parents and educators look for the Mom s Choice Awards seal in selecting quality materials and products for children and families. This book/product has been honored by this distinguished award. --Mom's Choice Award

Video Librarian, November/December 2003
..solid learning techniques and aids that will engage young viewers … Entertaining and educational, this is recommended.

Asian Educational Media Service — Spring/Summer 2004, Volume 7, Number 2
.. the atmosphere was similar to that of Sesame Street, educational yet highly entertaining.

Customer Reviews

Recommended
My [...] loves this video and has learned many new words. The format is constantly teaching new words - not just a few words sprinkled through. Jade is a teacher (I'd say in her 20s) and she starts at a Chinese market and points/holds to types of foods and names them and then moves on to body parts and farm animals. The word is also written in Chinese on the screen. She then reviews them in a quiz format with children and then in a game format with pictures or toys. I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know if there are any errors in the tape or not. The last section has children singing songs with Chinese in at least part of them. Some of the songs just have a few Chinese words in them and others are all Chinese. The video is interactive and educational. I'm anxiously looking forward to the Jade Kindergarten video now that we've seen this one.

There are a couple negatives: it is sometimes hard to hear some of the kids speak as it is softer and not as clear; the barnyard scene goes fast, but she does do a good job reviewing them later; and a couple of the visual aids are a little hard to tell what they are. Still, I recommend this video - these are really minor flaws when you view the whole video. It is short (about 30 minutes), but all my [...] should watch at one sitting anyway.

great early vocab builder!
We love this DVD! Jade laoshi is a big hit at our house and "Let's Go To Market" is my child's favorite. It covers lots of the important toddler words, like parts of the face/body, animal names, fruit names, and a couple of songs. "Visit a Kindergarten" is also good and covers counting, colors, weather, and songs. Neither of these DVDs are Disney quality production, but the material and the teacher are both very good for the younger kids. Way more age appropriate than something like Muzzy. I would recommend this for many different types of Chinese learners including Bi-national families trying to learn each others languages. Jade's teaching style is good for teaching some English to Chinese speaking children.

Highly recommend.
We have both of the Follow Jade DVD's. They are fantastic. She repeats the words alot and in different settings. Too bad that they are only the words, and she doesn't teach you how to ask for it in a sentence. Hopefully, she will expand and create more dvd's.

I also recommend the Mei Mei dvd's, too. They're great, too. The songs are very catchy.

Plus, we also bought this gorgerous "ASIAN AMERICAN BERENGUER GIRL DOLL" from EBAY, and my daughter absolutely loves to play with the beautiful doll and watch her Chinese dvd's.