Series: Dover Little Activity Books
Paperback: 64 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; Act Clr edition (December 16, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486803600
ISBN-13: 978-0486803609
Product Dimensions: 4 x 0.2 x 5.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #38,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Learning > German #980 in Books > Children's Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Activity Books #11180 in Books > Reference
Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3
My Austrian foreign exchange student, whose native language is German, said that the phonic spelling of the German words are wrong. This is not a good way to teach young children German...when they talk to someone from a German speaking country they will be saying the words wrong and won't be understood.
It is great to have fun materials for kids, but the phonetic spellings and the lack of proper capitalizations bothered me. Especially not using capital letters as required, right on the cover! Please just use regular German, simple words and proper capitalization.
It's cute. It has decently useful Spanish phrases, but without an adult to go through and tell the translation word for word the kids won't learn the individual words. That means that let's go to the park can't be adapted to let's go to the pool easily without assistance because there's no breakdown. Also a child young enough to want these phrases and color this book will probably have trouble making sense of the pronunciation guide. It's a cute little thing for fun or an addition for a child already learning Spanish. It is not a good starting point for introducing your child to the idea of learning Spanish as it can make the language seem like a daunting task. It is well worth the $2 price tag and good for us because we already had some basic Spanish to start working with.
My native German speaking husband said this is the worst book ever!! To his German tongue the pronunciations seem more Dutch than Deutsche.He tested me (a basic tourist level speaker) and our little one (bi-lingual) on the pronunciations only and was surprised that we could use the phonetically written pronunciation to sound near German.Also, beware this book is very small. It is like a pocket sized phrasebook. I think it could be used for children on a trip to Germany so they could speak some basic German.
I didn't really notice it in the picture, but the book is veeeery small. It's a cute book though and I do like it, but I think it would be much better if it was the size of a regular coloring book or even just a little smaller. My 2 1/2 yr old won't be able to sit and color by himself since he wouldn't be able to hold the pages down all by himself.
Super fun resource for my 2 year old to color and learn simple daily life dialogue in a foreign language! The pronunciation helps are great! She has her decorated copy & mama has hers! Highly recommend!
Worked very well for my 7 year old. Each day she completed a few pages while in Germany and learned very well from it. I was a bit disappointed with the size of the book. More like a booklet. But over all it worked great and no mistakes
While the idea is nice and I love that they show the phonetic spelling, the phonetic spelling is wrong for several words. I am a native German speaker and I can see where those errors are comming from as most american pronounce these words this way, but that still doesn't make it right.For instance, the phonetic spelling for Aufwiedersehen is wrong the "se" is NOT pronounced "say" it's more like the "se" part in the english word "send". Später would not be "shpay-tair" the "ä" make the same sound like the "a" in apple ... Obviously I'm not a grammar pro myself, for German or English, all I can tell though is that if you go by the phonetic spelling provided you will pronounce the words wrong.
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