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: #290 in Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 16391
• Released on: 2007-11-06
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .25 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

Great Language Learning Tool
I'm a college student taking Spanish as a requirement, and I picked this software up hoping that it could help me get through level 2 Spanish. After playing the game today, I'm certain it will be beneficial to my quest to graduate :)

The game first tests you on a range of Spanish vocabulary to see at about what level you are currently testing at, which was excellent since I have some basic Spanish behind me already - no starting from the beginning all over again.

Another great feature in my opinion is the fact that the game forces you to continually re-play the current level you are on, and you earn 'mastery points' as you go - this prevents you from thinking you are 'close enough' to getting it and moving ahead before you might be ready. If you haven't mastered the current level you will not be allowed to move to the next.

The mini-games are enjoyable and the overall presentation of this product is very sharp. The extras almost make it worth the price of the game alone - a searchable phrasebook complete with spoken pronunciations, a English-Spanish dictionary, etc.

I definitely recommend this product and look forward to continuing to use it.

A Fun Way to Learn Some Spanish
I bought this for my wife and myself so we could learn a little Spanish. She has some Spanish background with a few high school level classes. I have none. But both of us really enjoy the game and are learning new things right from the start.

The first 5 minutes of playing the game asks you to choose what some words mean in Spanish. It starts off with easy ones like Gracias, Uno, etc and then gets harder. The better you do on these the higher level you start in your lessons. So the game can be helpful for anyone learning Spanish.

My wife and I have both played every night since we got it and enjoy it enough that we want to play every day. The lessons are easy enough each time, but have fun games to help you learn them. Plus it can help you learn to speak Spanish too by recording your voice and comparing it to a native speakers pronunciation. You can even compare inflection to make sure you get it right.

Very impressed with this game
I expected this game to mimic your typical book where it is all about repetition. Instead I found a very interactive and quite engrossing game based upon teaching you spanish. One fear I had was that as someone who knows a little about spanish I would have to sit through beginner stuff for hours before getting to the content that really suits me. The game handles this potential issue brilliantly by having you take a 50 question placement test. I got up to question 35 before missing twice in a row which automatically ends the test. For this performance I was moved straight to lesson 8. Amazingly there are around 1000 lessons. I played lesson 8 and immediately learned what I missed on the test and more importantly learned new words and the context in which they they are used in sentences. At the end of each lesson you take a timed multiple choice test where you accumulate Mastering points which enable you to unlock future areas. It really does give you a sense of accomplishment and also makes this really seem like a game.

For anyone looking to either learn a new language, or test their current knowledge, this series of games is awesome.