Product Description Winner of a Mom's Choice Awards GOLD Award; winner of a 2017 Tillywig Toy & Media Brain Child Award; winner of The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval; endorsed by KIDS FIRST!; Highly Recommended; by Midwest Book Review; winner of an Academics' Choice Smart Media Award Children love a birthday party, especially when it's their own. But when is Fritzi's birthday? Join the fun-loving Fritzi the mouse and his friend Marie for Les Saisons (The Seasons), a festive sing-along, dance-along introduction to French language-learning. From l'hiver (winter) to l'automne (autumn), it's a year-round celebration as children learn words and phrases associated with all four seasons. This lively interactive French immersion program engages children with colorful backgrounds, animated characters, catchy original songs, and live-action footage of familiar year-round activities, including sledding and snowball throwing, splashing in puddles, swimming, playing in leaves, and trick-or-treating. Upbeat live-action speakers introduce and reinforce basic French words and phrases through call-and-response and repetition. The video includes an easy-to-use translation guide for parents and teachers, as well as French and English subtitles. Designed for ages 1-7, Les Saisons (The Seasons) is fun for all ages! Make a playdate with Fritzi and friends for this delightful addition to Whistlefritz's award-winning French for Kids series. Review It's not often that we get reviews from testers that call a product flawless and the gold standard, but this new release from multi-Seal-winning Whistlefritz garnered both reactions. We all know that kids love screen time, so getting them interested in watching a video is easy enough. But, getting them to watch half an hour in another language? That's another story. Les Saisons is hosted/taught by Marie, a warm, engaging and energetic host. Children were instantly drawn to her smiling enthusiasm. Together with her animated friend, a mouse named Fritzi, lesson time becomes fun time. There is live action mixed with colorful animation. Marie teaches about the four seasons directly into the camera, then draws the viewer's attention to an illustrated window with animation about the seasons. The tone is playful with just the right amount of silly. There are a diverse group of children in the video, ranging in age and race, who also speak into the camera. They repeat the French words being taught and laugh at things that are funny. Laughing is a major component in immersion since it's a connecting experience. And the songs! There are extremely catchy, original tunes about the seasons that accompany videos of children playing in winter, spring, summer and fall. --The National Parenting Center, Spring 2017 ReportChildren find the perpetually playful mix of live action and colorful animation in this educational video to be so thoroughly entertaining that the cliche, 'They're not even aware they're learning', holds true. Behind this remarkable feat is the deep care and attention Whistlefritz puts into creating their language-learning products. The immersion method (everything is spoken in French) is a highly effective approach to teaching a second language, allowing kids to readily absorb meaning through context and repetition. This sing-along, dance-along funfest keeps viewers smiling and laughing the time away while onscreen players Fritzi, Marie, and a French-speaking entourage of children engage in a host of verbal exchanges and fun activities. The sheer pleasure of it keeps young viewers coming back, again and again, as they learn a variety of words and phrases associated with all four seasons. Available in digital file or as a beautifully packaged DVD. --Tillywig Toy and Media AwardsAs a French teacher and a parent with dreams of bilingual children, I consider Whistlefritz's Les saisons DVD to be an excellent tool for introducing young children to French. If your children are starting French immersion or have French-speaking family members, this is a great way to reinforce what they are already hearing. Even if your children have no previous experience with French, they'll definitely pick up some vocabulary and pronunciation after a couple of viewings. --Maman Loup's Den
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My kid loves it, get this... songs are cute.
My kid can sit through the whole thing. He watches and has learned quite a bit. He even asks to watch it again and again and I don’t mind because it reinforces what he has learned. Even I can tolerate this kiddie show, ha. The songs are catchy, the lady’s voice is clear, and the graphics are colorful and crisp.
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Great quality product
This DVD is genuine. Not like the others they sell on Amazon that doesn't load and not recognized by a DVD player.This DVD plays well, picture quality is sharp and sound superb.
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Whistlefritz, Dino Lingo, and Little Pim
I am writing a review comparing three language programs for very young children: Dino Lingo, Whistlefritz, and Little Pim. I rented an episode from each of these programs from amazon to see which one was the best fit for me.Dino Lingo was my least favorite (three stars), however, watching it regularly will still help toddlers and very young children pick up new words. The production value of this one was the lowest; the dvds are animation, but the animation is pretty low end and a bit corny. Shots with people in them aren’t very clear either, however, kids aren’t going to care about that. The program comes with six dvds that are about a half hour each. The cartoons are very spazzy, fast paced, and odd. I would recommend this set for little ones that watch more cartoons or television in general. Not being judgmental here, but kids that are already exposed to other faster paced cartoons that are all over the place (like a ton of kids’ shows are) will pay attention to this better. I personally feel this set is best for kids aged two to four, or maybe five. Younger is probably best, because an older child is going to get sick of six half hour long dvds like this pretty dang quick.Little Pim came in second place (four stars), but this is the intro to French that I am choosing for my just turned three year old daughter. Little Pim is a mix of cartoons, and segments with real people. It isn’t as annoying as Dino Lingo, and the pace is slower. The cartoon segments aren’t as bizarre either. Production quality is decent, and huge steps up from Dino Lingo, but don’t expect gorgeous and elaborate animation as it is still fairly plain. Little Pim comes with six dvds (same as Dino Lingo) that are about half an hour each. They are cute and engaging enough for the two to four (maybe five?) year old age bracket. Again, I can’t really picture six or seven year olds having any interest in watching these dvds, but I could be wrong. Rent episodes off amazon before spending the one hundred dollars to find out.Whistlefritz (only comes in Spanish and French, we are starting with French) is by far the best of the three. It flows like a kids’ show with songs, and the episodes are centered on a woman with an animated mouse for a side kick teaching to a group of kids. Looks nice, although I bet all parents will be sick of the songs before the first month is out, but this is the price we pay.This collection comes with four dvds with about a half hour of program on each one. It also comes with two cds that have all the songs on them, in case you’d like to listen on an endless loop in the car for the rest of your life. Whistlefritz is ten dollars cheaper than Dino Lingo and Little Pim, but you end up with two less episodes to watch. I personally would take two more episodes over the music cds.I feel Whistlefritz would be suitable for slightly older children too, and not just toddlers, because the songs and style are slightly more engaging.Also, don’t expect your children to become fully fluent in French (or whatever language you choose) from watching these videos alone. You will have to keep going with the language. It is disappointing to me that none of these programs have additional levels geared towards elementary aged children. I guess we have to jump right into Pimsleur (which is not connected to Little Pim in any way) or Rosetta Stone.My three year old liked all three episodes I rented, so I have decided to start by purchasing Little Pim. We don’t do a lot of screen time in our house, so I imagine maybe three days a week I will have her watch a half hour episode. I also plan on following up that half hour with an episode of Puffin Rock or Mouk with the language set to French (thank you, Netflix!). There are many other cartoons on Netflix that can be played in other languages, so take advantage of screen time by using it as a language learning tool.I intend to purchase the Whistlefritz program in the future, maybe six to twelve months down the road depending on whether or not my interest in having my daughter learn a second language early on wanes or not. (My three year old also tinkers around with me peeping over my shoulder as I use Duolingo in French and also the 6,000 Words in French apps- I probably do these about half an hour a day. She doesn’t always pay attention, but I’m sure it’s good hearing the language spoken anyway.)Hope this helps!
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