Product Description

Playing My Spanish Coach for 15 to 20 minutes a day is all you need to become fluent in Spanish, no matter your age. The simple touch screen interface lets you spend less time learning the game and more time learning Spanish. The game includes 8 touchpad mini-games to sharpen your skills at your own pace, and lets you track your progress with charts showing your performance learning the language. ESRB Rated E for Everyone.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #287 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 16391
• Released on: 2007-11-06
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• Adapted to any level, from beginner to advanced
• Get regular evaluation on improvement
• Learn Spanish through mini-games and competition
• Write your answers with the stylus on the Touch Screen
• Translator and glossary

Amazon.com

Playing My Spanish Coach for 15 to 20 minutes a day is all you need to become fluent in Spanish. This title teaches the basics of word, use, grammar and construction of phrases through minigames and evaluates your progress. There are 1000 interactive lessons designed with Spanish teachers, 10,000 words and 400 phrases, including pronunciation tests using the built-in DS microphone. An added feature of the game is the ability to look up words or phrases in English or Spanish by list, keyword, categories or by your favorites.

Features:

• 8 touchpad mini-games to sharpen your mastery of the language at your own pace
• Track your progress with charts showing your performance learning the language
• Simple touch screen interface

Customer Reviews

This game is fun & entertaining
This is one of the best Spanish learning tools I have come across, considering it is made for a Nintendo DS. I was so surprised how fast I progressed after just a short while playing this game. In about a week I had mastered 500 words. It starts off slow, you don't have to know any Spanish to get started, and gradually progresses into more complex words and phrases. Granted I have been neglecting it for a while, I will go back every now and again and brush up and everything would return to me. I bought this because I work in law enforcement and thought it would be a fun way to learn, it's also been a really big help when there aren't any interpreters handy. I am very happy with this product and will likely being trying the other languages they offer. I highly recommend this for anyone who is wanting to learn a second language in their spare time.

Great for the first 50 lessons, then a disaster.
I am a native English speaker who learned French last year. THis got me very excited about languages, and I decided I really wanted to learn Spanish. I thought this Spanish coach would be a great place to start. And I have to say, for the first 50 lessons, it is a fun and effective way to get into the language. However, after the first 50 lessons (they take maybe 8 hours to complete and to really feel like you've learned everything in them), the game goes into what it calls the "Open Lessons"). This is how it works:

Starting with lesson 51, you get 10 words per lesson to "master." You get no phrases, no conjugations, NO GRAMMAR. The words are seemingly chosen at random, though they are set in the game in that order, so you can't change it. I went through about 15 of these "Open Lessons" (there are I think 1,000 in the end!), and found them to be utterly ridiculous. Instead of learning useful vocabulary like "bird," you learn the word for "ORIOLE." Instead of "to say," you learn "to utter." Things like that. Essentially, you learn words that are not used in every day language. I kept doing the next lesson, certain that things would level out, but each lesson I was presented with words that I can't even imagine using even in English. I've read similar reviews to mine, and they were right.

I rarely leave online reviews for products, but I felt that I needed to say something about this game. It really isn't worth the money in the end, and it is a shame because if they put more time into this game they could be much better. I think the whole series follows this same formula. They really need to rework these games and re-release them. I sincerely hope they do!

Very good.

I think this title is very good, I definately increased my knowledge of Spanish. I completed 50 lessons. I am by no means 'fluent' because of this game, not even close, but definately learned a lot.

There are 8 different game types. Two of them, Flash Cards and Multiple Choice, are great for vocabulary. The 'Whack A mole' mini-game is modestly fun but once you know the word you're not really learning past that.

I think the best mini-game was one called 'Bridge Builder', where you actually make sentences. I really wish that aspect was emphasised more.

What makes this game great is the portability of the DS, plus the move-at-your-own-pace interaction.