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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 02/20/2001 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 42 mins Studio: Family Home Ent Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Children's/Family, Language & Literature, Children's Educational, Children's Entertainment, Linguistics See Also: Baby Einstein: Language Nursery

This video is another release from The Baby Einstein Company, a group that is dedicated to introducing cultural concepts to infants and very small children. Bold patterns, colors, toys, and other basic objects are shown onscreen and are designed to teach abstract ideas like prediction and object permanence. Parents are encouraged to interact with the video by pointing to the objects on the screen and repeating or explaining them to the child. Baby Einstein focuses on phonemes, or the sounds of human language. The idea of teaching such a concept to very young children is based on research showing that infants have a natural ability to distinguish and absorb the sounds of all languages, but gradually lose this ability as they grow older. Repeated exposure to basic sounds of foreign languages at a young age may help form connections in the brain that allow them to be retained for a longer period of time. Included in the video are simple words, phrases, and numbers in the languages of English, Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, Russian, and Japanese. ~ Sarah Block, All Movie Guide

=Baby Einstein offers the same material familiar to those who own the popular videotape, but adds a wealth of educational material as well. The DVD itself offers a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are neither subtitles nor closed captions on this release. In addition to providing a parents' guide on how to use the Baby Einstein series of videos, the disc contains a digital board book for your child's enjoyment, as well as flash cards that help to enhance vocabulary skills, and a special child-friendly concert of Mozart's music. This is a great disc for children up to the age of 18 months. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide