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C'est pas sorcier

1993 · TV series · documentary · 26 min episodes · 1 season

Created by Jamy Gourmaud, Frédéric Courant

Documentary

C'est pas sorcier is a French educational television program that originally aired from November 5, 1994 to present.

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  1. PositiveiraldirMar 5, 2024

    My 2 years 5 month old toddler uses Adobe fresco on my wacom tablet every now and then, she knows how to switch colours and draw, I erase the page every now and then for her.

    She also watches every now and then "C'est pas sorcier", a french documentary series for kids that's pretty advanced (go into details of biology etc.), on all sorts of topics (nature, science, food etc.). That's also a good way for her to experience some French as we live in the UK and her only source of French are talking to me, or to her grandmother on the phone.

    Just to be clear she does plenty of other activities, we cook together (she has a children's chef knife and uses it to cut things like tofu, carrots etc.), she draws on paper, she sings and dance, goes to the swimming pool weekly etc.

    As for video game, that's more for later as she does not have yet the skills for that but at a glance

    - Logic : Puzzle games, things like incredible machines, but also management game like sim-city. - Creativity : Any sandbox game, the sims, minecraft, drawing game, sculpting game, animal crossing etc. - Motor skills: Platformers, fighting games...

    Essentially any game that requires a lot of effort for little reward, as opposed to games that makes you touch something shiny and shower you in visual and auditive feedback.

  2. PositiveArnoVWDec 21, 2020

    My kids love it. And it's been translated into Dutch (on the Dutch Netflix), so it's one of those shows I can use to expose them to Dutch.

    For French speaking families (or Americans that want to expose their kids to French) there is an amazing show, called "C'est pas sorcier". They've produced 559 episiodes of 25 minutes since 1994. Each episode having 50% "on location" and 50% "in the class". And through jokes and play they manage to make something that is fun and (relatively) demanding, and that both my kids (5 and 8) and even myself love.

    I believe pretty much everything is available on YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/user/cestpassorcierftv

    EDIT: Reddit seems to think that the US equivalent is Bill Nye.