CINDERELLA (Level 1): Learn JAPANESE Through Fairy Tales (Foreign Language Through Fairy Tales) (English and Japanese Edition) Paperback – July 15, 2015

This is not a good approach to teach a language.a scattered word in a story is distracting from the story and does not teach the flow and understanding of the language, only an odd word.

My kids have a lot of fun listening to this book. It's a nice non-threatening way to introduce Italian. The new words sneak in gradually and the kids have no problem understanding the story.

My kids love learning German through fairy tales. The story is read in English with added words in German. They start with a combination English and German and by the end they are just using the German words. The words are scattered but it is a fun and easy way to start learning or to reinforce German vocabulary. It is nice because you do not get overwhelmed by listening to just German. The kids get so excited by the end that they can understand the German words. And they start using them to replace English words in evday conversation.

I like the concept of this book with the little peppering of German words. I have some all-German books that I try to read to my son but he just loses interest. This one keeps it. We actually finished reading the book and moved onto an all-English book, something about a duck. The page showed the duck with tears and my two and a half year old pointed and said "That duck is traurig (sad)" and I wanted to get up to do a little dance.It's a little difficult to understand in places; some of the sentences aren't arranged in English sentence structure. Perhaps they did that on purpose to get you subconsciously used to the German sentence structure.However, I gave it 4 stars out of 5 due to editing. Out of the 30 or so pages which have only about 4 lines each in giant 14-16 size font type, the editors should have taken a little time to do their job properly and miss nothing. The front page glossary on my book defines "gross" as "horse." That is just sloppy work and it devalues the credibility of the rest of the book.

This book was not what I expected, it might have been my fault for not reading carefully the description of this product. I don't like at all that the vast majority of the book is in English and a few German words are mixed in the story. I think this doesn't help at all. I have other books and Cds that are also for kids that want to learn German as a second language and everything you hear is in German. I think this approach is much better and I have used these products with my kids and have seen how they enjoy them and are starting to pick up words and understand what is being said.