We’re excited! Disney Interactive and Rosetta Stone have joined forces to promote the value of learning languages for our kids!
Together they have launched a new online original series, it’s a small world: the animated series inspired by the iconic Disney Parks attraction that’s always a must-do during our visits to the parks. Premiering on Disney.com, Disney’s YouTube network and across Disney’s connected TV apps, the new series does a fabulous job at taking the multicultural and multilingual experience of the attraction online for our generation of kids.
Sponsored exclusively by Rosetta Stone and their new language learning apps for kids (our review here), the eight episode series introduces families to unique words and customs from around the world. Our kids will get to join a group of children from different countries across the globe to explore new lands in a digital narrative brought to life through animation inspired by Disney artist Mary Blair’s original designs for the popular theme park attraction.
Beautifully done, in short 4 minute webisodes, we wholeheartedly celebrate that the theme of it’s a small world: the animated series centers around introducing the concept of learning languages and cultures to understand each other better.
The first webisode finds the children at the British Museum of Art and touches upon subjects like how using the same word, like “football,” can mean different things in different languages and that some words can sound similar in different languages and can cause mix ups. Oh, how we know about that! A topic near and dear to us parents raising bilingual kids!
To view the first three episodes of it’s a small world: the animated series visit disney.com/smallworld or watch the first episode below.
The Rosetta Stone – It’s a Small World presents on Disney Video
¡Cuéntanos! Did you like it? We’ve been working hard for years advocating with media, apps creators and toy companies to create more products for bilingual and multilingual children and that celebrate diversity. They DO want and need to hear from you, so please share in the comments section so they know we want more of these quality shows for our kids. ¡Gracias!
This is wonderful, what a magnificent way to embrace languages AND cultures! I look forward to watching the series with my little ones. Thanks for sharing this information!
Fantastic! My 4 year old loves languages – and asks people where their family comes from, when she hears a different accent or a different tongue. Bilingualism – why wouldn’t you? This is a great programme
I think this sounds wonderful! I can’t wait to watch it my my girls. And thank you for the tip of the language learning app! I am so glad to have stumbled upon this blog today, what a GREAT resource! I am a Venezuelan photographer, married to a Mexican American with two children that don’t want to speak Spanish. I am struggling to keep it alive in them and feel like failure most of the time. This blog has renewed my determination to have fully bilingual kids. Thank you!
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