Professor Toto

Professor Toto and Sophia
Written by Francois Thibaut
Directed by Francois Thibaut
Starring Lani Minella
Philippe Perriard
Olivia Caillot
David Crommett at the Internet Movie Database
Elizabeth Acosta-Crommett
Tony Allotta
Samantha Catalano
Tony Zhang
Ziaoyan Su
Dominik Sachsenheimer
Katrin Biemann at the Internet Movie Database
Theme music composer Dominik Sachsenheimer
Jérôme Rossi at the Internet Movie Database
Country of origin United States United States
Original language(s) English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, German
Production
Producer(s) The Language Workshop For Children
Release
Original release 1994

Professor Toto and Sophia is an animated film produced by Francois Thibaut and The Language Workshop for Children for purposes of second language acquisition for children and has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, and German versions. The film is intended to educate children in language pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The Professor Toto animation utilizes the "Thibaut Technique" teaching methodology. The Professor Toto animation has a 60 minute running time, and the separate vocabulary review segment has a 20 minute running time.

Plot

The animation begins as avuncular and humorous Professor Toto invites his class to watch a cartoon about a day in the life of a boy named Eric. Eric describes what he is doing, "I comb my hair," "I put on my socks," "I put on my shoes," "I drink hot chocolate," "Dad drinks coffee," and "Mom drinks tea," in school, lunchtime, park, snack time, dinner, and bedtime environments. Then the professor introduces his class to more foreign language words and images periodically prompting viewers to repeat and asking review questions such as "what is the cat wearing?" The animation introduces animals, clothing, colors, body parts, foods, action verbs, adjectives, prepositions, places, directions, shapes, sports, musical instruments, time, months, and seasons.

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