habla blah blah - testimonials

testimonials: classes & music

music

"What a fun and educational CD! My 16 month old daughter danced and danced while the CD played. All the songs had such a good beat I forgot it was kiddie music. We'll both learn a lot from listening."
- Lorraine, CD Baby customer review, 5 Stars!!!!!

"Hoorah Habla! My kids immediately started singing along with the catchy tunes. They sing them as they play around the house. My daughter proudly proclaims she speaks spanish now. This cd is a great introduction to the sounds of the spanish language. My children are toddlers. This is an ideal time for them to learn these sounds as they perfect their pronunciations of other english language sounds and blends."
- Amazon customer review, 5 Stars!!!!!

"Wonderful for my elementary Spanish learners...As a teacher of Spanish in the elementary schools, I am always looking for new songs for my kids. This CD is perfect. It covers the topics we learn, and the songs are catchy and fun!"
- Dale Gorman, CD Baby customer review, 5 Stars!!!!!

"Best ever! All we need is a sequel! Perfect CD for preschoolers or kindergarteners. Makes learning Spanish fun and easy! I never realized how exciting the Spanish language could be, until this CD. Wish there was a follow-up CD, or better even better, a set!"
- Mimi, CD Baby customer review, 5 Stars!!!!!

"We LOVE it!! My boys (ages 2 and 4) have been rocking out to the tunes… clapping, waving and wigglin’ in their car seats non-stop since we got the CD 2 days ago. It has been so fun… and the three of us are really learning too! Yes – the THREE of us… I am learning right along with them. We all sing along – and if they don’t know a word – they ask me… and if I don’t know it – we all look it up together inside the CD jacket. The songs are catchy and fun – as I write this my 4 year old is quietly singing “salud a ti, salud a mi” while he is playing with his trucks. Amazing. I am just thrilled."
- Los Angeles, CA

"Your CD is amazing! Intoxicating! Joyous! and playing all the time! I am not sure if it is just the most adorable songs that creates the most awesome learning environment or the "Disney-like" addictive music with the steel drums or just the ... impeccable quality that I quite literally laugh out loud and belt out your songs as loud as I can each time I hear the CD."
- Palm Springs, CA

"I just wanted to tell you that we absolutely love the cd, it is so well done! All the songs are very unique and catchy. We have really enjoyed listening to it. Even our Spanish-speaking nanny thinks it is phenomenal. I love the dance music with kids words...hysterical. Forget Blake, I'm putting it in my car!
- San Franciso, CA

"El CD es absolutamente adorable!"
- Los Angeles, CA

"We love Habla blah blah it was an instant party at our house... this is funny! I put the Habla blah blah on for the kids in the neighborhood. They were all dancing and totally in to it. Then, I left the room. I came back five minutes later and they were... still grooving. Mary was even on the coffee table. It looked like a scene from Spring Break, but they were learning Spanish!"
- Newport Beach, CA

"Theo asks for “the Spanish CD” just about every time we get in the car. And when I ask him which is his favorite song, he says, “this one. No this one. No this one.” It’s been a lot of funning introducing Spanish and Habla Blah Blah is a fun, catchy CD that kids will want to listen to and parents will have fun singing along."
- Los Angeles, CA

"Your CD is awesome... We can attest to the fact that your CD works Elijah was jumping in with mimicking sounds/words on every track."
- Evansville, WN

"What a phenomenal idea and such a delight to sing along with your songs! eeh eeh ooh ooh aah aah is my favorite but I love them all. I have listened to the CD at least 3 times today in between office visits. I have my grandchildren every Monday and can't wait to dance and sing with them - they will love it."
- Sacramento, CA

"Isabella's favorite song, hands down, is Los Elefantes... she stomps around the house singing every word, and yelling BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. I'm considering videotaping her to use in your next commercial. ;) Max thinks Mucho Jugo is a riot because I'm always trying to control Izzy's juice intake (I can definitely tell that one was written by an experienced Mom)... The Darling family gives Habla blah blah two thumbs up, and we anxiously await cd #2!"
- Brambleton, VA

"Oh My Gosh...we just love the CD. It is so catchy and the spanish words are very clear to understand, the repetitive words are a wonderful tool for spanish conversation... I remember songs like these when I was learning Spanish as a child."
- Sacramento, CA

classes

"Miss Erica is a wonderful teacher! Lively, interesting, and fun!"
- review from Totz Only class, Fall 2008

"This class is so much fun - my child and I liked it better than Music Together©. Laura is great!!"
- review from Dragonfly DuLou class, Spring 2008

"Laura is great! Very patient and energetic with children. Loved the class - will sign up in the Fall!"
- review from Dragonfly DuLou class, Spring 2008

"Habla blah blah... es fantastico! I can't say enough great things about this class. Habla Blah Blah will encourage your little one (and you) to speak and sing in Spanish. My 2 yr. old daughter has never responded so positively to a music class as she has with this one. And its not just music. The teacher introduces the Spanish language through singing songs, dancing, snacks, and craft projects. It is a lot of fun... we bought the Habla Blah Blah cd at CoolBaby and we listen to it several times a day! My daughter now has many new words in her vocabulary. I highly recommend this class!"
- posted on Go City Kids, August 2007

"This class is the MOST effective spanish learning tool not only for toddlers, but for the adults too! Amy is a dream as far as teachers go and the songs she has created are not only catchy, but also a lot of fun. I urge anyone who is even slightly curious to check this class out it is a MUST!"
- posted on MomstyleNews Group Digest Number 397, May 2007

"A while back Angeline gave this class a rave review - so, we gave it a try ...Well - we couldn't agree more! My hot-n-tot son, Caelan is absolutely in love with this class -- he knows practically all the words to the songs (in Spanish) and dances around the room like a little jumpin'- bean! Thank you, Amy for creating such wonderful way for young children to learn Espanol!"
- posted on MomstyleNews Group Digest Number 396, May 2007

"Fun music, high energy class -- Amy has a lot of energy, she is warm and friendly, and the music was fun and easy to sing along with... The class room space at Dragonfly DuLou is very clean, and street parking was pretty easy. The vocab activities are simple and pretty relevant to a child's life - how to say your name, talk about animals, foods, count, etc. It's worth checking out."
- posted on Go City Kids, March 2007

"I need to tell you all that this class is absolutely FANTASTIC! It is so much more than a music class, it is a learning experience that continues on in the home and so much fun. (I know I sound like an advertisement, but I just love the class so much that I want to make sure people know about it.) It is so different from any other music class we have taken. Habla Blah Blah teaches kids (and parents) Spanish words through song, food and play. We have been twice now... Both times we have come home with lots of fun ways to reinforce the Spanish we are learning in the class and my 3 year old is so happy to speak the Spanish we learned in the class. Amy created the program herself and it is inspired."
- posted on MomstyleNews Group Digest Number 274, February 2007

What Experts Have To Say About Early Foreign Language Learning

"The power to learn a language is so great in the young child that it doesn't seem to matter how many languages you throw their way... They can learn as many spoken languages as you can allow them to hear systematically and regularly."
- Susan Curtiss, Ph.D., Professor of Linguistics, UCLA

“...when people immerse themselves in a language like children, through play and exploration, they can learn a language quickly and easily. So the more we become child-like in language learning, the easier it becomes.”
- Jeanette Vos, Ed.D., consultant and part-time Professor at Cambridge College, MA

"Learn with music and rhythm. Music is one way to use the whole brain. Do you still remember the songs you learned in early childhood? Most people do because lyrics combined with music are easier to learn (Lozanov, 1978; Campbell, 1997; Brewer & Campbell, 1998)."
- Jeanette Vos, Ed.D., consultant and part-time Professor at Cambridge College, MA

"Bilingual preschoolers can read sooner because they are able to recognize symbolic relationships between letters/characters and sounds without having visual objects. Learning a foreign language at a very early age can clearly benefit a child's reading abilities and hopefully parents and educators can help to provide the resources for this to happen."
- Ellen Bialystok, Ph.D., FRSC, Professor of Psychology, York University, Toronto

"...simply teaching young children the sounds and accents of other languages at an earlier age may be valuable, even if they are not getting full instruction in the language"
- Paul Thompson, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Neurology, UCLA