Boca Beth Final Round-Up: Moy Bien
Our bloggers have spent the last month exploring the world of Boca Beth, a Spanish language learning series created by mom and educator Beth Butler. It’s an affordable, award-winning program that parents appreciate and kids love. With early exposure being of utmost importance to second language learning, the Boca Beth series is aimed at making the experience fun.
Similar to our reviewers in the first half of the campaign, these parent bloggers found their kids really enjoyed what Boca Beth had to offer.
The bloggers appreciated the familiar tunes as it helped their kids easily transition between singing in English and Spanish. “I would say that it took my daughter maybe 3 viewings before she was singing along and transitioning (fairly well) between the Spanish and English lyrics without thought.” ”...the songs are catchy and easy to learn, and use familiar tunes that the kids already know. Every time we get in the car Sunny asks for Boca to play.”
A suggestion was made that “It would have been nice to have a lyrics sheet for the adults, though, because sometimes it is difficult to make out if something starts with, say, a B or a P just from listening to the CD.”
The kids and parents alike loved the coloring book. “…the coloring book features Boca and is just as good as a textbook in my opinion - each page has a word in Spanish and English, and we’ve gone through the coloring book a lot to not only color but to go over the words.”
The dvds were mesmerizing, even for the pickiest of customers. “The extremely busy Cakes actually sat, spellbound, through the whole thing.” “She laughed and clapped her hands, moved to the music, and even did a few turns in a circle, which was a brand new move for her. It kept her attention the whole time!” While one little girl was a tough customer, but her dad vowed to keep on trying. “Especially at this developmental stage, exposure is key, and so I’m going to keep trying.”
The parents also appreciated the style of the dvd. “I appreciated the fact that the program was slow paced, without flashy animation or quick cuts that so often distract toddlers.” ”The DVD won me over, though. Gabe doesn’t watch TV yet, but when he does, I’m sure he’ll love the DVD.”
And for what you get, many of the bloggers felt the price was amazing. “This is an incredible price for what you receive. I would definitely recommend this as a gift or to anyone who wants to take steps in teaching their children Spanish.” ”I have nothing but admiration for Beth Butler, the creator of Boca Beth, for coming up with this concept and creating a language-based program that is very affordable. Go mamapreneurs.”
The program even got a thumbs-up from a native Spanish speaking Mother-in-law of one of our bloggers.
The Boca Beth program receives an enthusiastic “thumbs up” from my former-elementary-school-teacher Mother-in-law. Which, is NO SMALL feat! Should you be interested in teaching your child Spanish, this program deserves your attention. While this review is from the perspective of a native-Spanish-speaker, Yaya assures me that it is very easy for anyone to use.
Also, she added: “I must mention that this is the second Spanish language program that we have used. The first program was much more expensive (we borrowed it from a friend) and was not nearly as beneficial as the Boca Beth program. And, it was all on VHS…call me spoiled, I like the DVDs!”
This blogger summed it up best:
Boca Beth might not be as slickly produced as Baby Einstein videos are, but in my own opinion the educational value of the program is far superior. Beth Butler has done an excellent job presenting Spanish in a way that is not only appealing to a wide age range, but it’s done in a way that’s downright infectious. Not to mention that after watching the video myself, I probably learned more Spanish than I did in two years of college-level Spanish classes!
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Hola/Hi - Beth Butler, founder of the Boca Beth Program here! First of all a grande gracias to all of the Parent Bloggers and Kristen and Julie for running such a tremendously valuable site - both for parents and manufacturers, they allow us to see things for what they really are! The feedback has been so appreciated - both the constructive as well as the super positive! Here are a few points we want to make sure you are aware of:
1) The lyrics are all on our web site (the inside of each CD tells you to hop on there) because we want parents and teachers to have access to all of the other free resources on our site http://www.bocabeth.com(circle time activities that go hand in hand with each song, more than 60 bilingual language cards free for the downloading, bilingual coloring pages and so much more!)
2) Thanks to the reinforcement from Parent Bloggers blogs we will be shooting a new bonus feature/tail end for our “I Like Animals” DVD. We filmed that segment at an indooor play facility and used cameras and mics not well suited for that live setting. We thank all of you for the ‘kick in the rear’ to get that new segment filmed. It is going to ROCK!!!!
3) Our music CDs were loved by most of the Parent Bloggers (and by 99% of the children which is who we are trying to reach!) - but I have to answer to two bloggers that compared our studio production to ’something my friend does out of his bedroom’ or ‘my former college roommate did better production out of our dorm.’ I look to the thousands upon thousands of Boca Beth CDs sold - many repeat customers online - and I know that most testimonials speak totally the opposite. I have not even let our music producer/arranger read those two comments - as we strive for clarity in the enunciation for language learning as well as the child-friendly arrangements made with a slight infusion of Latin American/Mexican/Cuban influence at times in the beats. We spend countless hours of passion, energy and money to allow those analogies to pass by without comment. Hear for yourself - all of our CDs can be sampled prior to purchasing on our web site of http://www.bocabeth.com.
Gracias/Thank you - and Happy Educating! ¡Sea feliz educando!
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