So, my three year old watches Dora all the time, not always just watching it but it is on alot (and Elmo too)

The other night she starts counting in Spanish!

so tonight she is "helping" me clean the kitchen. I am doing the dishes and she opens a whole package of sponges (LOL) and starts "cleaning" the counter. Then she starts counting the sponges, there are 6 she counts them all right.

so then I say "good job Rebecca, now can you count them in Spanish?" Just curious thinking she would go "huh?" and sure enough out comes "Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis" not only did she count right in Spanish but she even knew what I was talking about! and this from a child who did not even start talking alot until maybe 6 months ago.

Dh was floored to see her do that.

That is so cool! My 3 yr old DD is the same way. The other day she told my 11 yr old DD to stop in Spanish. lol Now she's watching Ni Hoa Kai Lan so we're hoping she picks up some Chinese, too. lol

yep, my daughter likes Ni-Hoa Kai Lan too. funny. My daugters are 11 and 3 too. It is interesting sometimes.

That's so neat.  Try turning on the captions on your TV so she can get some reading skill in, also.  If you check out/rent DVD's, you can also play the audio in Spanish with English subtitles, or vice-versa.  I swear doing this was one reason my DS was such an early reader.

JC

I never thought of doing that. What a great idea!

Isn't it great when television can actually be a BENEFIT?  That's  a pretty rare thing nowadays!

Well, now my 3 yr old can say, "Slippers, where are you", in Chinese. lol Thanks, Ni Hao Kai Lan! lol

That is definately cool.

I have some Dora phonics books if she would like them.  There are 12 little books, but the only way I can list them is either under their group ISBN, or enter each ISBN separately with all the information.  My youngest is too old for them now.

Dawn

My younger son and my friends and relatives have had surprising results using Leap Pad videos (now on DVD). Three are a series that teaches reading by watching entertaining cartoons. It comes off like a fun show not 'a class'. The 4th is a math one that teaches to count from 1-100. I recently blogged about them here.

http://thethinkingmother.blogspot.com/2008/02/highly-recommended-leap-frog.html

I say anytime they can watch a fun show and learn something, go for it!!