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[Boblina]

Hi do people use DVDs in other languages to teach their children? What do you use apart from books and speaking? If you do use videos/dvd where do you get them? Are there any on the web?

When they were little it was books and speaking and singing to them.

Now that they are older, they have:

DVDs that we buy on holiday or order online

ds subscribed to a Swedish magazine for quite a while, but has now grown out of it

dd goes on a Swedish chat forum (for horse-loving girls, so very innocent)

the internet

pen friends

Depends what you mean by "teach".

I buy my daughter (13m) the DVDs of programmes that she would watch if we were in a Francophone country and we watch them together and I talk to her (in French) about what's happening on screen. I get them from amazon.fr or mediadis (Belgian) and would try fnac.com (website of major bookshop)if those two ever let me down.

We DON'T watch any DVDs (or use any materials at all) that are designed as "educational" or for "teaching" languages.