Baby Webster Flash Cards: Language Discovery Cards (Baby Einstein S.)

We bought several flashcard sets, and these were the winners. Yes, I agree with the other reviewers, it is disappointing that the cards are pictures of toys. However, once you're over that there are many pluses: eg these are ultimately photographs not drawings; the words and pictures are well separated so, once the words are recognised, you can cut them away from the pictures and play matching games; there are lots of suggestions on the back listing things you can do with your child to prompt discussion about each card. With the help of these cards and obviously lots of general parental stimulation, my baby could name pretty much every card in the pack by the time she was around one and recognised and named lots of the letters in the words. She's now 16 months, knows her alphabet and speaks in sentences. And STILL loves playing with her cards. I think we have quite a few years left to explore the possibilties with them. I'd buy them again.

We purchased the Baby Webster Flash cards for our 15 month old twins and were really disappointed. The pictures featured on the cards are pictures of soft toys (i.e. pig, lamb, dinasaur etc.) and the train, telephone etc. are also toys. In order to help our babies recognise objects and learn the words associated with those objects, we expected to have real life images pictured on the cards. Unfortunately neither the description of the product nor the outer packaging provided any indication of what the pictures would look like. We had to buy the product and open it, only to realise that they were unsuitable for the purpose we required them. Whatsmore our twins weren't particularly impressed or interested in the cards; on the other hand if we even show them a magazine with pictures of real life animals etc. they are extremely interested and captivated.

I purchased the flash cards for my 10m baby; they're aimed at 9m+. The pictures are disappointing, considering other baby einstein products we have purchased I expected more. The pictures do little to capture the imagination or attention of our little one. I think they will be useful for an older age group, e.g. 4+ as the names of the objects are produced in 4 (I think) different languages on the reverse side of the card and each name is phonetically spelt to aid pronounciation. So a good buy if your little one is learning e.g. French / Spanish etc....

The flash cards are of a great size, photos are large and colorful.

What I like about Baby Einstein products is that every product in some way is linked to another therefore you are able to re-enforce what you are teaching your child or grand child if you use Baby Einstein products. Although this product doesn't show real animals it shows the animals, cars and etc. in away that is less threatening to a baby. I mean although the Discovery Cards says 9months and up I started my grand daughter on Discovery Cards at 3 months for about 15 minutes a day and the pictures look like the toys in her crib or her play mat. This opens the door for me to show her the names of different things even if it is not the actually animal etc. I like the fact that they give you 3 extra blank cards to make it your own for the child or grand child. You can place a picture of a sibling that is away at school, or place a picture of the parent that maybe working while the caregiver is watching the child. You can put a picture of their favorite food on the card. The sky is the limit and everything else is only hampered by your own imgination. They give you suggestions on how to use the cards...Which I think is great!!! You don't have to follow that format but sometimes after a long day at work your brain is fried and there you go right on the back of the cards is away to make your day a little easier. I also like the 7 different languages on the back of the Discovery Cards that are spelled with phonics(always a winner for me). I feel that for a Baby these cards do the trick when they get older then you can introduce the real life animal or you can tell your child/grand child that this is a stuffed animal or whatever in the picture. For example they have a pig which is a stuffed animal on the card you can then introduce a book that shows real pigs to the child; of course when they are ready. This enables you to talk to the child and also helps widen their imginations. I don't think we give children enough credit and I also don't know if we as adults realize if we keep it simple we can bring them the world. Bottom line is this is a great product to introduce your child/grandchild to the world of language.

We love these cards! By we, I mean our entire family. I purchased these for my 18 month old. We already had the video and was delighted with it, and I thought these would be a great extension to further explore other languages. My son absolutely beamed over the pictures, espicially the peas, the dog, and the firetruck. I love that I'm learning with him, and it is easy because the pronunciations are spelled out in a way that is easy to understand. He knows over half of the cards in Spanish by now. Additionally, and unforseen, my eighteen year old and her boyfriend like to hold the cards up and try to pronounce the words in all of the languages: Spanish, French, Russian, German, Hebrew, Japanese. They laugh as they are learning. It is great interaction for all of us!

普段からこのシリーズのビデオを観ている１歳５ヶ月の娘に買いました。娘はムンズと掴んで私からひったくって大喜び！大きいけど分厚いので安定感があって、小さな手にも問題ありませんでした。 うちの娘はこのカードのお陰で物の上下や表裏を揃えて並べたり（床に）、同じ方向にまとめる事を習い始めたみたいです。大ぶりの絵と文字が見やすいんでしょうね。何度も何度も自分でめくって遊んでいます。これは思ってもいなかった嬉しい収穫でした！ でもフラッシュカードとしてちょっと不満なのは、分かりにくい絵がある事。「車」と「トラック」はもうちょっと大きくならないとちゃんと区別できないし、「汽車」は先頭の機関車部分だけで一見「トラック」。「道化師」「恐竜」とかあまり生活の中で目にすることない物も多く、それだけならともかくはっきりと特徴を捉えていない絵（ビデオに出てくるぬいぐるみ等）もあります。誰がどこをどう見てもこれにしか見えない！という特徴ばっちりの図柄が増えればいいと思います。 裏には英語、スペイン語、フランス語、ドイツ語、ヘブライ語、日本語、ロシア語、での単語があり、発音も書いてあります。ＷＥＢ上で発音を聴く事も出来るそうです。ヘブライ語まで入れてるのに国際共通語（アラビア語や中国語）がカバーされてないのがチョット残念！この値段なら、枚数ももうちょっと欲しかったです。

Package in poor shape. Cards definitely poor shape and drawn on😡. Very disappointing