Play & Learn CHINESE with Mei Mei Vol. 1
by Mei Mei Hu
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Actor: Mei Mei Hu; childrenDirector: Mei Mei Hu
Format: Color, Digital Sound, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Running Time: 41 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-01
Studio: Mei Mei and Me
DVD Reviews of Play & Learn CHINESE with Mei Mei Vol. 1
DVD Review: Great beginner dvd
Summary: 4 Stars
When my children were young (3 and 5). They would watch this dvd over and over again. It's a very basic children's dvd recorded very low tech. The thing I like most is that Mei Mei uses great teaching strategies for the learner of a second language. (I should know. I'm a teacher myself.) Volume 4 was the kids' favorite since it had singing and dancing. We just bought volume 8, and the videos of China are beautiful. I guess there's a high learning curve when it comes to making dvds!DVD Review: It WORKS!
Summary: 5 Stars
My 3 year old daughter loves Mei Mei's DVDs and CD. She asks to listen to the CD in the car and asks to watch the DVDs at home daily. What's really amazing is that in just a couple weeks she was counting to 10 in Chinese and a couple weeks later singing songs and naming body parts!
Mei Mei's DVDs present the material in an organized and fun way, engaging the children in the lessons. Without any expectations we wanted to expose her to the language early and we couldn't be more thrilled. With such limited exposure to the language (her only exposure is to Mei Mei's lessons) it truly has been an exciting surprise to see just how much she is picking up and even more importantly how much she enjoys the DVDs/CD.
This has been a very satisfying investment.
DVD Review: Best I've seen for kids
Summary: 5 Stars
Outstanding! My two year old's favorite video! She watches it over and over, and is just soaking it all up like magic. Mei Mei is awesome! I'll definitely be ordering the sequels.DVD Review: "Bad" dvd surprisingly beloved!
Summary: 4 Stars
I ordered this dvd, knowing not to expect the best of audiovisual quality (see other reviews), and wasn't pleasantly surprised to find otherwise. I bought it because it is the first in this series (the others more highly rated).
Yes, it looks like it was recorded in someone's basement with an amateur camcorder. Yes, it is stilted. Meimei sits frontally and teaches us with little interaction, props etc. The children seem to be her regular students and often seem to wait for behind the camera prompting and seem very selfconscious. They either seem unprepared or precocious. It seems very uninspired and pedantic.
So why 4 stars and not 2? Because my 34 mo old son LOVES IT! I ordered the Little Pim series (he likes), the Baby Learns Chinese (beautiful), the Globe Toddlers Adventures in Mexico (totally overrated), all for him to learn and practice Mandarin... and he continually asks for MeiMei. I thought it slow and repetitive: he sits calmly watching and repeats after MeiMei and the kids. He gets up and copies the students' movements, and we like watching the games and playing associated with the songs. He has started counting in Chinese better than in English. He does all the same movements as MeiMei's students if you ask him his body part names (ie swishing his butt for pi gu! "shake your bottom" says MeiMei) He wants me to sing Ba Luo Bo (Pull out the Carrot) with him.
So, forget what the adults judge to be excellent videography, snappy animations, exciting teaching... this one is a winner!
Now we'll order the next MeiMei chinese dvds with confidence.
DVD Review: Needs Pinyin
Summary: 2 Stars
If you want your child to learn a few things in Mandarin, this is a fun little video. However, I was hoping to use this as a teaching tool to help me and my daughter learn Mandarin together. But I was very disappointed to find there is absolutely no Pinyin whatsoever and nothing included with the DVD to supplement the lessons.
The sound is not so great so you may need a Chinese/English dictionary to make your best guess as to exactly what is being said and which tone is used. The English subtitles are nice to have but simply not enough - plus there is no "word for word" translation anyway.
I DO like the content and the way it's presented, but to me it needs more for clarity - especially for such a beautiful and complex language and for those of us who want to get it right.
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