Children's cartoons

[jinjin]

Can anyone recommend children's cartoons (maybe available on youtube) that one can watch to learn Spanish? Sometimes they have children's cartoons in Chinese with English subtitles--just wondering if anyone knew of any for Spanish. Someone suggested Dora the Explorer but it's mainly in English (or at least the ones I can find). Thanks!

[tacuba]

Sure. Go to Youtube and do a search for "Spanish cartoons with English subtitles".

[Josh]

My son has a couple of kids DVDs that have Spanish as a language option. The couple that come to my mind are Bob the Builder and rubbadubbers, but I'm sure there are others.

[irmamar]

Once I tried to watch cartoons in English, but that high-pitched voice didn't let me understand a word. I think that an adult voice is easier to understand than a child voice or such a high-pitched voice as cartoons' ones.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Added to the strange voices, cartoons tend to use too many colloquial expressions... It's not always easy to understand what seems so far from classroom lessons.

@jinjin: In Spanish, "Dora The Explorer" is called "Dora La Exploradora", but many of the videos in Youtube have been altered and turned into rude sketches.
However, here are some that may be easier to understand and can be found in Youtube in Spanish:

- Caillou (in Spanish from Spain)
- Pocoyó (in Spanish from Spain)
- Plaza Sésamo (Sesame Street, in Mexican Spanish)
- Érase una vez el Hombre (Old cartoon that taught some anthropology for children)


Some old entertaining ones (Mexican dubbing):
- Don Gato y su Pandilla (Top Cat)
- Los Picapiedra (The Flintstones)
- Los Pitufos (The Smurfs)


...and you can find in Google the links to Latin American or Spanish websites of Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, etc.

[sosia]

other children series
Juan y totola (Charlie and Lola)
little einsteins
Mickey Mouse clubhouse (la casa de Mickey Mouse)
LAzy Town (villa Pereza)

but it's difficult to to find with subtitles
you can find them in different spanish versions.
Try to find one chapter in both spanish and english....
Or buy one DVD with both language and subtitles.
Saludos

Look at this link http://community.babycenter.com/post...arning_spanish

[Josh]

I'm going to have to check out the Smurfs and Flintstones this evening.

[Broken Spanish]

Thanks for posting the cartoon links! I like cartoons anyway, but they are relaxing to watch in Spanish.


So sorry if this does not make sence:
Gracias por la linga al programa de infantiles. Me gusta los dibujos animados,...how would I say it’s relaxing to watch them in Spanish?


I found Pocoyo nice, clear and slow to understand so could understand what I already know, and the Caillou cartoon was nice too, he looks like Charlie Brown! So cute! I didn’t understand much but I’m going to watch it again with my dictionary to learn more vocabulary. The voices in that one reminds me of the voices in my Spanish language cds!

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by jinjin

Can anyone recommend children's cartoons (maybe available on youtube) that one can watch to learn Spanish? Sometimes they have children's cartoons in Chinese with English subtitles--just wondering if anyone knew of any for Spanish. Someone suggested Dora the Explorer but it's mainly in English (or at least the ones I can find). Thanks!

My children watch Dora la exploradora.

[LibraryLady]

Originally Posted by jinjin

Can anyone recommend children's cartoons (maybe available on youtube) that one can watch to learn Spanish? Sometimes they have children's cartoons in Chinese with English subtitles--just wondering if anyone knew of any for Spanish. Someone suggested Dora the Explorer but it's mainly in English (or at least the ones I can find). Thanks!

A lot of animated movies on dvd have several language tracks. I just switch the audio track to spanish. You can also turn on the subtitles to english so that you're watching in spanish and reading the subtitles in english. I find feature length movies a little more interesting to watch as an adult than cartoon tv shows. It doesn't really answer your question but I thought it might be a helpful alternative