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English-language Cartoons

by lacqui on June 14th, 2010

I’m sitting here with my son, and we’re watching Treehouse TV.  One of my absolute favorite shows is on.  (Insert sarcasm tags here).

The issue I have with it isn’t with the contents of the show.  Teach the kids to exercise, teach them to share, teach them to learn from the world around them.  Not a problem.

The issue I have is that, as with most shows where English is the primary language, they don’t speak proper English.  Dora and Diego teach Spanish; I have to presume they’re doing it properly.  Likewise with Kai-Lan and Chinese.  But it seems that kids shows want to dumb down the English language, which I feel is a completely backwards way of thinking of childhood education.

I shouldn’t feel stupider after watching a show with my kids than I did before it started.

Did my parents feel this way?

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  • Remi

    Did you just watch Waybuloo? It is quite horrible. We used to think In The Night Garden was bad, but Waybuloo takes the cake.