Teach Me German [With Book]

My 5 year old loves this and I think it's cute the kids are actually NOT native speakers of German. German Mom

I checked this out from the library and am very pleased with it. My son seems to like that some of the tunes are familiar from english versions that he has heard. I think that learning a language though singing is the best way for young children to be exposed. As an other reviewer already said, I am confused by some of the negative reviews. I grew up in a Dutch speaking houshold, studied German in college, and have been to Germany and spoken with natives many times. Germans always complement my German. Germany has many accents and the 'R' sound is gutteral in some places and not others. Perhaps the German on this CD is more like what is spoken in nothern Germany (which sounds quite similar to the language my family speaks from the northern Netherlands, Friesian.) I really felt like the German spoken on this CD was like the German I had experience with, though perhaps it is not what is spoken in Southern Germany. No matter what language you speak it is likely there will be accents from different places.

I bought this book and CD set for my 2 1/2 year-old when we moved to Germany. He loved it and listend to it over and over. Within two weeks he was singing the songs. The recording quality isn't the greatest but the songs are fun. I wish the CD were a little bit longer.

My husband has studied German for many years and wanted our children to be familiar with the language as well. I have never taken any German courses, so I decided to rely on CDs, books, and movies to expose our children to the language. This is the first set we purchased. There are a total of 19 songs on here that my son enjoyed listening to from the age of 2 (and my daughter at just a few months). The songs are sung in German and English both - they are not literal translations, but done so that they rhyme. The general concept of the song is the same though. The songs are: The More We Get Together Bruder Jakob (Are You Sleeping) Days of the Week Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes Rain Song Medley Numbers Alphabet Mary Had a Little Lamb One Elephant Bruderschen komm tanz mit mir The Wheels on the Car Hush Little Baby On The Bridge Six Little Ducks Hanschen klein Oh! Susanna Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Schlah, Kindlein Schlaf Gute Nacht meine Freunde There is a book that accompanies the CD; it's too advanced for my children at this point in time, but the illustrations DO help when you are listening to the CD. (The CD goes through a day in the life of "Maria" - the book shows pictures of things like Maria's family, her school day, and such) Even though I have never taken German, I can say the alphabet and count to 10 - as can my children. They also have a VERY VERY basic start to learning the German language. We have ordered the "Teach me MORE German" sequal to this and hope to be as pleased with it as we are with this one. I highly recommend this for exposing young children to the German language. My only complaint is that the songs are sung by young children; the pronunciation and clarity isn't always great.