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Customer Reviews of Follow Jade! Learn Chinese: Let's Go to Market in China

Fun basic learning videos in Chinese
It appears that some reviewers are expecting Hollywood production when purchasing videos for learning Chinese - both by Jade and by Mei Mei and then they feel dreadfully disappointed when they find out that's not the case. <
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>Nevertheless, if your purpose for buying these videos is to learn few basic words and expressions in Chinese - the videos will help you to do just that. <
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>The songs in Jade's videos have mixed English and Chinese words. <
>The videos are made for kids, but I purchased them nevertheless when I was learning my first words in Chinese, together with many other programs and the songs had enough of catchy tunes that the words and tunes stuck in my mind even a year later without go back over those programs. <
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>And as the other reviewer noted, it's a good idea to visit Chinasprouts - there have a great selection of videos and books to help children learn Chinese. <
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solid and fun learning for kids
I have two kids who are half Chinese and half American, and are interested in learning Chinese. A friend told us about this "follow jade" series. We first borrowed it from the liabrary, and it was a hit in the family! The kids started to say things like "what is your name", "how old are you" in Chinese just like Jade, and answer back with each other just like the kids in the video. It was so sweet to see that! I am just so happy to see them finally getting into Chinese with excitement. <
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>The video is not all Chinese (that would not really work), it is spaced nicely with English and Chinese, making the Chinese very visible and easy to remember. Some people might not get used to it at the beginning. I thought it was very different at first, because it is not the usual way of teaching. But it works like a charm! I would encourage everyone to try it. <
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>I also like the real market scenes in China, the color, the sound, it really makes you feel China and want to practice your Chinese. I highly recommend the two Follow Jade videos to anyone. The Kindergarden one has more songs and basic words, the Market one has a bit extended vocabs. Try them!

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Your Kids Deserve More Than This.
Jade, the instructor is attractive, pleasant and charistmatic. She used props in many cases to illustrate her points about the parts of the body, names of fruits and animals, etc. There are a few attempts at interaction with clapping and singing along but mostly the exercises fail to capture your attention.

In fact, this video did not appeal to me, my students or my 4-year old. The entire video is incredibly slow-moving and speaks to you as if you are incapable of swallowing. (I would look for similar videos on Chinasprout.com.)

The majority of the video is presented in a classroom setting: the instructor held up different fruits, animals, etc, and named them in Chinese. In many instances Jade's pronunciation was less than perfect. Then she drilled the audience on the names again. I guess the drills were game-like, but weren't at all interesting or engaging and, over time, became extremely irritating. The video did not have much to keep me, my students or my child interested. Afer a partial viewing we immediately sold this tape on eBay.