Why was the show Dora the Explorer created?

Question

Apart from teaching children math and music skills and physical coordination. Was it specifically made to teach spanish?

Answer 1

lol

Answer 2

not only to be fun and amusing like most young TV shows, but also to teach young kids Spanish in a fun way!

Answer 3

Dora was created because it makes kids get up off their couch or chair and move in the morning, and it also teaches kids Spanish in a fun active way.

Answer 4

The main goal of Dora the Explora is to teach young children to get off the couch and move and point at the objects she is talking about. At the same time Dora teaches kids spanish by using examples and matching their english definition to the spanish defenition.

Answer 5

The main goal with "Dora" was a show that would get kids up off the floor and interacting, but the spanish is nice!

"At a December 1997 meeting, Nickelodeon executives asked the network's in-house development team to come up with ideas for new shows. The execs had been working with outside creators to conceptualize shows, but were not satisfied with the results.

Walsh, a Nickelodeon employee who was in film school at the time, was at the meeting. Walsh brought her ideas to the group's next meeting and found that she and another Nickelodeon employee, Chris Gifford, had a similar concept: a story-driven interactive show starring a little girl heroine.

"I felt like I knew preschoolers and what was entertaining to them," Walsh said. "I loved the idea of trying to infuse teaching preschool-appropriate things with getting the kids up and making it an active learning experience for them."

Nickelodeon executives, intrigued with the concept, asked Walsh and Gifford to flesh out their ideas into a TV show. About four months later, "Dora the Explorer" was born."