The creators’ passion, perseverance, and love for learning about other languages and cultures shines through their product Tonji: The Musical Ambassador by Mommy Americana. Designed to engage a child through international music, if you go to their website you will see that they have put together popular and traditional lyrics from around the globe. Each song includes language & visual repetition suited for specific age groups. For instance, my two-year-old daughter loved pulgarcito. She would mimic Tonji’s fingerplay and try to sing along. In fact, when I played the CD in the car she would ask for “más nene (Tonji), más avión.”
I am always so curious to share a product review with my daughter. I analyze the product from a bilingual educator’s perspective and from a mother raising a multilingual toddler. Most importantly, though, I look closely to how Sabrina will respond and to how I can play a part, too. This is definitely a product where parent and child will interact with the songs and eventually one where you will find your little one independently singing along and moving their body to the rhythm of the music!
One of the perks this Ipad app offers is the opportunity to record yourself and your child singing each song! Though the app is user-friendly, there is a link on their website that explains the purpose behind each icon. This is definitely a product worth exploring which will include songs in nine different languages from around the world!
I hope you enjoy the beautiful music Tonji (which means unity in Chinese) has to offer. What I loved most about sharing this experience with my daughter was how much the importance of exposing our children to other cultures, while nurturing the ones they come from resonated from the information I read about Karina Garcia Neffs’ MommyAmericana, the creator of Tonji.
The Giveaway!
We’re giving away a 25 CD set of Tonji: The Musical Ambassador to TWO winners to share with their classrooms or playgroups! That’s a total of 50 CD’s!
I love using music to expand my kids’ world and they love it too, especially dancing. I’m always looking for new CDs etc..
We love music in the home and while friends are visiting!
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My daughter and I love to sing Christmas songs together no matter what time of year it is!
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We love los elephantes song in Spanish!
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A song that is a family favorite is Big Birds Sleepytime Lullaby
We like to sing head shoulders knees and toes in English and French and juanito baila in Spanish.
We love the itsy biitsy spider.
we sing nelly furtado’s sueno
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~ We all sing to make the world smile. ~
I love doing Itsy Bitsy Spider with different sizes of spider and different voices in Spanish AND English.
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We love all sorts of traditional songs in Spanish…Cielito Lindo, Los Peces en el Rio, La arana pequenita
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We like The Wheels on the Bus.
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