Sesame street in Other languages?

[Ameena]

Does anyone know where to order Sesame Street in languages other than English? DD adores Sesame Street, and since I know it's made for over 120 countries I thought having some from other countries would be a nice introduction to foreign language and culture. DD watches it in both English and Spanish on our local PBS.

 

Really looking for Arabic ones if possible. I believe they have an Egyptian one - not sure if there are other versions too.

[Jean in Newcastle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street_international_co-productions This explains a little bit about the different versions. I would think you could google the actual names of the different productions for different countries.

[umsami]

Amazon vine has some of them. They have one episode of Alam Simsim (Egypt) and one from Palestine I think. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XI841S/ref=atv_dp_season?ie=UTF8&redirect=true

 

You can find them on youtube...and on eBay too.

[Shahrazad]

In Arabic on youtube (Alam as-simsim). It is hard to find because you have to type it in arabic to search:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUbxf5OMs0

 

^This user has tons of them.

[Um_2_4]

I got mine on cd from egypt. It doesn't play on the tv, but works on the computer. If you know someone making a trip, they are very inexpensive. Just be aware that alam simsim is in Egyptian Arabic, not fusha. I speak levant arabic and I sometimes can't keep up with it. And they do use the "g" proncuation for teaching the letter jeem, etc. So I am not using it to teach, just for fun sometimes.

[Embassy]

In Arabic on youtube (Alam as-simsim). It is hard to find because you have to type it in arabic to search:

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=mWUbxf5OMs0

 

^This user has tons of them.

 

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

[Shahrazad]

You're welcome!

 

The only cartoons we watch in my house are Arabic ones and my family has not gone overseas since my oldest was a baby so I am always bookmarking Arabic cartoons on YouTube to let my son watch.

[Shahrazad]

Also:

 

Here is the older, Kuwaiti version (in modern standard arabic) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wysbJoJzpM

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AD+%D9%8A%D8%A7+%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%85&oq=%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AD+%D9%8A%D8%A7+%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%85&gs_l=youtube.12..0l10.3959.3959.0.5142.1.1.0.0.0.0.170.170.0j1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.5XkMQ9Tacwo

 

 

The Palestinian version (The Palestinian dialect is much closer to MSA than Egyptian. I like this one although we turn down the music because we don't 'do' music...it is nice because my dh is originally Palestinian but my kids tend to have more of family's cultural identity (Moroccan-American) so it is nice to give them some additional exposure to my that part of their family background: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B9+%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%85&oq=%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B9+%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%85&gs_l=youtube.3..0l3j0i5.164469.164469.0.165687.1.1.0.0.0.0.163.163.0j1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.xwaNMcof-8w

 

And lastly, the Jordanian version, mostly short clips: http://www.youtube.com/user/HikayatSimsim

[pmeilaen]

Here is the first German one:

. You can find more on YouTube.

[umsami]

I don't know how your kids' Arabic is, but all of my kids really loved the Sinbad program. The songs, the story line..whole thing. Really well done. I don't think it works if they actually know Arabic, but for my kids...it was awesome. (DH is Egyptian...I speak zero Arabic except for food and numbers).

 

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Arabian+Sinbad+channel&oq=arabian+sinbad&gs_l=youtube.1.1.35i39l2j0l5.468.2049.0.4004.14.12.0.0.0.0.294.1713.4j5j3.12.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.q_2zTugxsG0