Editorial Review
Over 50 fun songs, games and everyday activities to get started in French!
From taking a bath to going shopping, books in the Play and Learn Language series turn everyday routines into fun language-learning activities for parents and children. Packed with lively four-color illustrations, each package features:
- Fun songs, games, and activities
- Key word illustrations
- Engaging comic strips
- Sidebars with fun cultural information
- English translations for all activities
Packaged inside each book is an audio CD that includes all the songs, games, and expressions in the course.
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Customer Reviews
Fantastic to learn to talk to your child in French 
2007-06-30
As someone who had some very rusty high school French I have found this book and 60 minute CD invaluable in teaching my 1 year old son to understand and speak French. He even enjoys listening to the CD in the car while Mummy learns French as he recognises phrases and songs that we have begun to use. The book and CD show you how to conduct everyday conversations with your child in many situations such as getting dressed, eating, cleaning up, bath time, going to the park and playing games. In addition to the vocabulary there are lots of easy songs that you can learn and sing during those activities.
Very Good 2007-05-26
This is a very nice book. It teaches basic conversation for young kids. Taking a bath, getting dressed. Very colorful and with pictures.
Play and Learn is not very engaging 
2007-01-09
I haven't been able to find something as entertaining as Learn in Your Car French for Kids (Marie and Robert going to the fete). The CD on Play and Learn is completely in French without any clever songs, stories, or activities that the kids can really follow along to. If they know a LOT of French then maybe it would be something they can follow along to, but it certainly doesn't teach anything using English/French together in an engaging way.
Rich content with helpful vocabulary help 
2007-01-09
I bought this for my 3-year-old girl who's going to a French immersion preschool. She loves it! She likes it when I read to her (I speak pretty fluent French) and she can figure out things by looking at the pictures. E.g., when I read a sentence and ask her in French what a certain object is, she'd point to a picture. She also likes to hear the CD. The book is colorful. The pictures and the English translation for the scripts are very helpful. My 7-year-old boy who doesn't speak French also likes to read with us and he'd read the English and I do the French part. I can tell the book is appealing for kids no matter what language it's in. I give 4 stars because I think they could have done better on the recording with more animation and variety in the tone, etc.
Wonderful 2006-04-21
While this book is geared towards children, I found it to be very helpful to me as a beginning French college student. I originally bought this mainly for it's pictures and dual translations as I'm a visual learner and because I've heard many foreign language audio programs that I didn't care for at all. This, however, is obviously done by a native speaker (and a good singer at that).
The audio and pronounciation is clear, making it easy to follow along with the text. The topics that are covered are everyday activities, making it easy to find ways to make use of what you learn in real life practice. Also, as the previous reviewer noted, the use of colloquial terms is also very helpful and useful.
As an experienced adult language learner, I feel that this will do well to improve not only my pronounciation, but my vocabulary as well.
Formidable 2008-07-25
Charming and age appropriate. Engaging for the parent and digestible for the child. I am so happy someone did this. Its unique
Very good! 2008-04-15
This is another (hop, skip, learn is another) great language product by Ana Lomba.
The book has all the texts, and is organized by theme. It's very complete, but simple, with repetitions. The translations (for parents who don't speak French) are in the book, not the CD, another plus, as it allows full immersion.
A few pictures accompany key words for each subject.
It's a nice change from too many products that are marketed to parents (ie with immediate translations!). The French speaker is native (another fairly rare treat in language products for kids in the US!) and there are no clumsy translations.
Just a word of caution: The adult will need to help the child with words they don't know, stop the CD and replay the session etc. It's clearly meant as a (excellent) support for an adult teaching a child.
Great as an addition to any curriculum 2007-08-24
I am bilingual (Spanish and English) and wanted to add in French with my own children. Since I just partnered in working on Flip Flop French: Ages 3-5: Level 1, I've been using that of course, and I so enjoyed using Ana Lomba's Play and Learn Spanish for my own students and classes, I got it in French.
I haven't been disappointed! After the children (three of them, ages 5 down to 2 years) completed lesson three, they were able to pick up quite a bit of this book and the interesting conversations that go along with the pictures in the book (it's full color!) My children really enjoy coloring and drawing, so after we do the Flip Flop French activity for the day, this is a great supplement and change for them. It's a little advanced for them without the other more simple lessons, but I think they'll continue to grow into it!
All in all, I love it!
Solid resource for useful phrases in French 2007-07-26
I learned to speak French as an adult (and am still learning).
As a result, I have had very little exposure to 'children's French' - how to speak to a child and use phrases appropriate for them.
This is a fantastically reliable source for just that, and it is enjoyable to expand my own vocabulary along with my children's.
Learn French with a childs' book 2007-07-19
Highly recommended for any adult who is trying to learn basic French. A great compliment to Pimsleur and Michel Thomas.
