[munchkins] Once-a-week Russian program for 2 hours for my 2-year old daughter

[Kari Fisher]

Native-speaking instructors sing songs, play games, etc.  My husband and I only speak English.  Do you think exposure to Russian for 2 hours weekly is enough to do anything? [Eventually, when she's older, I think it is more structured and is for four hours once-a-week.]  I know that this won't bring fluency on its own, but I have to think that it will give her a great foundation.  So that hopefully, she can study Russian at programs like Concordia for the summer or find a program more than once-a-week when she's in junior high or high school.   I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I've looked for Russian materials for little ones ad nauseam.  I have the Teach Me Series.  I also have Bilingual Baby in Russian - the VHS tape.  I found 2 local bookstores and purchased 2 lullaby CDs (b/c I can't read Russian, one was purely instrumental).  Then my friend went to Russia and bought me the identical 2 CDs but with different names and covers.  I also purchased a CD of popular Russian cartoon songs, I think.  But that's all I've found.  I've been really thinking about purchasing a text book for college students with DVDs from Kendall/Hunt publishers [Russian Live from Moscow/Welcome Back] just for the DVDs.  It's not an inexpensive purchase.  I will also eventually purchase Kids Stuff Russian b/c that looks the most promising of what's out there.  But it doesn't have a CD/DVD.     I've done my normal lobbying to Randomhouse, Early-Advantage (Muzzy), Language Workshop for Children (Professor Toto makers), Music for Little People, Language Tree, et al, to please make stuff geared toward little ones in Russian.  But you know they are all rushing to get stuff out in Chinese and possibly Arabic, despite Russian being the 5th largest language spoken in the world.        If anyone knows of anything else, please share.      Thanks in advance for any feedback.     Kari, mom to Karli, 2 years old this week College Park, MD, USA              __._,_.___ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "multilingualmunchkin" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___