So, my wife is teaching my three year old some Spanish, and she has two separate books that she's purchased with lessons that help her out. I have a kodansha Japanese picture dictionary that he loves, and we flip through it constantly. He knows a bunch of random vocab. I've been thinking about taking the spanish lessons and just substituting japanese words instead, but I'd love a more efficient, well organized study plan that was actually intended for Japanese learning. Does anyone know of any learning materials at all to teach young kids the language? He can't read yet, so I don't care if it's romaji based, just something that would help me teach him some sentences, made by someone with some experience on pacing, etc.
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Muzzy in Japanese? Holy CRAP!

I can *still* sing half the songs from Muzzy that we watched in my Grade 3 French class (repeatedly, mind you, but whatever). I'd love to have a copy of the French version for nostalgia's sake, but a Japanese one? That's just too good to be true.

Hands down, if you want your kid to remember random crazy stuff, and to have fun with Japanese while learning basic words, Muzzy is the way to go. I've heard it's a bit pricey, though. Maybe check the library??? *shrug* But yeah...

"Muzzy le grande monstre d'espace" was wicked for teaching French and making it fun, so I can only imagine that the Japanese one would be just as good.

<off to search eBay>

-ang