Does anyone have muzzy and is it any good?

[Camomila]

It's a BBC language kids app and it's on special offer (£42 for the year). I was thinking of getting him the Italian one but not if it's boring/rubbish/too advanced. He's 3.5.

I'm Italian and we see my parents most days so he hears spoken Italian all the time, and my parents Italian tv is often on in the background. I think he generally understands us but can only say a handful of words.

Am kicking myself for not starting teaching him earlier but I was in another town when he was a baby and found it too hard to speak Italian at a baby when I don't speak it day to day myself.

We had the French version when our kids were little. Sooooo long ago that it was on VHS. I loved Muzzy and it helped with my French too.

Thanks illnever I first learned English using educational VHSs! Spent the first half of primary school speaking in an old fashioned RP accent!

My dad is Italian and we had the Italian Muzzy on VHS when I was younger. I loved it although hearing my dad and grandparents speak Italian regularly was definitely what enabled me to learn Italian more than anything.

Just looked at it to see if they do Cantonese which my kids need to learn more (in-laws don’t speak English) but it only does mandarin, boo

It's very old fashioned but for a 3 year old could be fun. It's not too late to switch to Italian though! I found it very hard when my babies were little to always speak in English and wish I had tried harder. (I live in Italy). I made the switch later on and they now speak to me about half the time in English. Definitely speak in Italian!

DC2 is due in Jan, so he'll be spoken to in Italian all the time now I'm back in the rhythm of speaking it.

I'm hoping that will help DS1 as well as I obviously the things you say to a baby are much simpler.

It's really old school! My kids insist on watching the English version so I think it doesn't work.