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Educational software don’t have to be about serious reading and writing. The best examples will involve your child in the pace of the proceedings so thoroughly, they won’t even realize how much they are learning. Let’s look at a few of the best examples in educational software there are out there for the Nintendo DS that you can get your child.

The first one is Scribblenaut for the Nintendo DS. A child playing the game passes through different kinds of terrain; whenever she needs to overcome a particular obstacle a river to cross for instance, she just scribbles the name of the object on the touch screen on the DS, and right away, the game knows what object is meant and gives her the object to use. The game seems to have an inexhaustible supply of situations and objects to use in them, and it’s a great imaginative fun.

Next up is a game that makes particularly appropriate use of the double screens on the DS. The game is the DS’ Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure and it can be a real challenge because it makes the child feel like she is keeping up with two games at once. On the top screen is a curious old pirate-like character dressed up like a old English gentleman. He jumps up and down in an adventure game that is reminiscent of your typical Mario Brothers adventure. On the bottom half however there is a block-shifting game. Your success at shifting the blocks on the bottom screen correctly make you more successful with the adventure game on the top screen. This feverishly paced game makes for great fun and learning. All educational software should be like this.

How about this next one, called Style Savvy, that appears to  pander to a young girl’s interest in fashion, but instead gives her a good workout in running a business? A child playing this game runs her own fashion shop and she chooses how to set everything up right from the way the store is designed and what music is played over the speakers in the store to all the fashion merchandise that she will put up for sale. She’ll learn how to welcome customers, listen to exactly what they need and put together outfits for them out of the 10,000 items in stock. It’s harder than you think, really.

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The younger a child, the better the brain is at absorbing languages in a way grown-ups never can. If you have been interested in trying German, Spanish or French for your child, the right age and the right method to pick can be a bit of a head-scratcher. There are some products on the market that completely accept the immersion method. Other products on the market try to use the translation method, where children learn a new language through words in their own language, ones that they understand. Generally speaking, experts believe in the translation method for older children. The immersion method has time and again been proven to be the best way to learn French for very young children.

If you have children, it’s difficult to miss the Teach Me series of musical language courses for little kids. As with any book in the Teach Me series, the Teach Me French CD-book set comes with plenty of attractive little ditties to help kids memorize small words and expressions – all-time favorites like Alouette really work up plenty of enthusiasm.  The best thing about this series is, that it offers graded lessons in each language. Once you’re done with the first book, you can go on to Teach Me More French and even a book called Teach Me Even More French. For the very young, this is undoubtedly the best way to learn French.

Once you begin to be on the lookout fpor products to teach your children French with, you begin to notice all these great products on the shelves that you never actually checked out before. Try Uni-Verse of Song: French, for instance, uses classic French ditties like Frères Jaques and Sur le pont d’Avignon for a simple start children who are real beginners. A voiceover cuts in in the middle of each song to help explain words that have been used.

Learn in your Car for kids: French has to be the best way to learn French through an audio aid. As children follow along with the kids recorded on the CD, they learn quite a bit. This one comes with a reusable activity book that helps kids read and write; the book comes laminated in plastic, and a set of erasable markers.

For young children up to the age of six, Bilingual Baby: French teaches basic French words and phrases  at exactly the right pace without ever seeming too slow or too quick. Children using this system quickly learn words in French for everyday objects, numbers, colors and so on. They also learn what to say in basic situations  – the hellos and the thank you’s. The set comes withDVDs that show a great uncluttered learning environment; and each word in a sentence is taken up one by one.

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