Billy and Benboo: The Monsters and the Magic Wand, Learn Mandarin Chinese Beginner Level 2 Customer Review: Learning a new language can be easy and fun!
I watched both the level 1 and level 2 videos with my American-born elementry school nephew and pre-school niece.
The video was appealing to them because it’s like a cartoon video. The scenes in the video are very visual and focused, it’s directly related to the dialog, so it’s very easy for children to understand what the video is teaching.

The music and songs in the video are also great! I love the tunes, they are very catchy. The children learned it really fast, and soon they are singing along.
I also like the fact that the song lyrics are made up of phrases from the teaching material, and repeat itself over and over. This helps the children to learn through repeatition.

My nephew and niece are both attending private after school program to learn Chinese. I saw far more progress after watching the videos for few weeks, than they going to 1-1/2 years of language school. Plus if I watch the video with the kids, I know exactly what was taught in the video, it’s much easier for me to start practcing with them. As oppose to going to the language school, which I have no idea what they are teaching, therefore it’s hard for me to start a conversation in Chinese with them.
Also the materials from the video are related to things we would normally encounter in real life, so there are many occasions to take the opportunity to practice the vocabularies.

Lastly, the story of all the videos are centered around Billy and BenBoo, the two main characters, and their family, so you’ll be familiar with the characters after the first video, and easy to move on to the next. I especially love the adorable dog Ben Boo, he’s so playful and brings so much energy!

Thanks Language Tree for making learning so much fun!!! I can’t wait to see the next video!
Customer Review: Very helpful and interesting
The video tape is very helpful and interesting. The repetition and clustering method of learning language really helps, and more importantly, children like the story.

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