Baby SafariTM Language CDs for Babies
Incroyable...regarde ce petit-la...
Unglaublich...schau, das kleine da...
Incredible...see this little one...
Incredible...mira este pequena cosa...
Luar Biasa...Lihatlah yang kecil ini...
Otroligt...Titta pa den har lilla....
Nzuri sana...ona hiki kitu kidogo......
French, German, English, Spanish, Indonesian,
Swedish, Swahili... (line 13, The Wednesday CD)
Your baby needs to hear our Baby SafariTM CDs now -- you never can tell which languages your son or daughter
may someday want or need to learn. Hearing these CDs when young makes this process much easier.
An infant can easily acquire perfect pronunciation for many languages just by listening. Please see:
The Background & Composers sections set out the language-strings and music for the basic CDs.
The "Toddler Words" sections each give the 25 cards used with the Toddler Words CD (not yet released).
Knowing and using more than one language sharpens young minds. Even if you want your child to learn just one foreign language, hearing the languages on our CDs will help develop broad pronunciation skills.
The Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday CDs contain background music by Holst, Puccini, Mozart, Debussy, Vivaldi, Ravel, Granados, Dowland, Sibelius, Geshwin, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, Satie, Delibes, Pachelbell, Albeniz and many modern composers.
Try our CDs risk-free for 90 days. If you are not absolutely satisfied, then simply return them for a full refund. To date, none have been returned (since 1996). They are not available in stores.
For each language, a short series of words such as -- "root, branch, stick...leaves, moss...chilly" is repeated over and over by pairs of native speakers -- first by a woman and then by a man -- to create a long "language-string." By using pairs of speakers, a range of permissible pronunciation is provided. The vocabulary used is varied and practical.
The advantage of using this format is that the meaning of the words is known regardless of the language being heard. For about 85% of all households world wide, the "native" language used is one of the 25 and thus it provides a guide for infants in these homes for the meaning of each language-string. Many children continue to listen to our CDs when they grow older.
Also included with the three basic CDs is a free 2 hour MP3 CD with 100 popular songs in these 25 languages. The songs are to be played at a special party (and then for another year and a half or so) when an infant turns 6 months of age. Since a baby begins to discriminate against languages which are not heard after age 6 months, this party -- an Akilo Party -- helps to broaden familiarity with these languages.
These language materials were developed over a period of 12 years (since 1996) and rely upon basic research in the field with contributions by faculty and staff at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. It was decided that these audio materials with their special formats were badly needed and deserved the time required to make them. Infants in more than 40 countries now listen to them.
According to a recent publication by Prof. Jenny Saffaran, it appears that there is a strong relationship between the retention of pure pitch (musical) capability and the native language of a child (also see the Wikipedia reference;
language). Retention of pure pitch capability by an infant or young child should be routine if an infant or young child hears a "pitch-sensitive" language (like Thai or Chinese) during its early years. Both Thai and Chinese are on all of our CDs.
The titles of the CDs are the days of the week -- "Monday", "Tuesday" and "Wednesday". A different, general vocabulary was randomly assigned to each set. Play one daily for your child in any order -- on any day of the week.
(1) An MD called recently stating that her 4 year old son "just likes to listen to the CDs"... "do you have any more?" (We sent her the CDs when her son was 14 months old.)
(2) A family (in Bulgaria) emailed us saying that their (13 month old) son likes to repeat the words -- and that after 5 weeks, he had perfect pronunciation in 8 languages.
(3) A 19 year old woman moved with her family from London to California when she was 2 weeks old. Currently she still has a strong British accent for a dozen or so words.
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4) Charles Berlitz (1914-2003); fluent in 32 languages -- As a child, Charles was raised in a household in which (by his father's orders) every relative and servant spoke to Charles in a different language: he reached adolescence speaking eight languages fluently. In adulthood, he recalled having the childhood delusion that every human being spoke a different language, and wondering why he did not have his own language like everyone else in his household. His father spoke to him in German, his grandfather in Russian, his nanny in Spanish.
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