My Spanish Coach
- 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
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.
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My Spanish Coach
- Video Game: 0 pages (2007-11-06)
- Platforms: Nintendo DS
- Publisher: UBI Soft
- Label: UBI Soft
- Studio: UBI Soft
- Manufacturers Age: 10 years and up
- Our Recommended Age: 5 - 20 years
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 56 reviews
- Sales Rank in Video Games: #314
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Summary: Shame on You, Nintendo and Amazon! 2008-11-18
Comment:
"Only 15 to 20 minutes practice a day is all you need to become fluent..." This has got to be the most misleading, patently false bit of advertisement which I have seen on Amazon. Even if you do away with the outright language mistakes, (see review by "goldbug"), the less-than perfect language teaching method you could NEVER attain fluency in a foreign language by playing a game for 20 minutes a day!
EVEN IF "My Spanish Coach" were perfect in every way--fix all the language errors and reduce or eliminate the use of "translating" to teach foreign language--the most you could expect would be a beginning understanding of some aspects of the language. I don't doubt that this would help you with your beginning Spanish courses in high school or college, but, don't expect to be able to speak, read or understand the Spanish language "fluently". Fluency requires a lot more work, and TIME, mostly: time spent studying, of course, but also time spent in the classroom speaking ONLY Spanish--at least five days a week, and, most importantly, immersion time with native speakers--at least one semester hearing and speaking only Spanish.
I am a college-level instructor of German, and I have worked several years with freshmen learning German for the first time. I speak German fluently. I had studied two years in college and then spent over a year in Germany in order to get to this point. There is no way around it. I've taken some college Spanish here recently, but I know that if you plunked me down in Mexico, I wouldn't be able to speak and understand fluently for a few weeks, at best.
"Goldbug", a reviewer who has studied Spanish for several years has found many frank errors in MSC: mistranslations of words, mispronunciations, lacking conjugations of irregular verbs, lacking gender of nouns, among others. This is inexcusable. On the question of gender: most students underestimate the importance of learning the gender of nouns because we are so used to calling objects "it". Spanish nouns have TWO genders--he or she. (German has three) It is absolutely imperative than the student learn the gender along with the noun. Nothing sets off the "Gringo" alarm so much as gender.
On the issue of teaching: in order to learn a language, let alone become fluent in it, you MUST learn to THINK in the language. Translating from English to the target language is not a way to learn this. There ARE ways to teach even beginners by using only the new language. Using pictures is one way. A good language teacher or program uses these types of methods.
MSC got lots of 5-star reviews, so lots of people liked it, but it's not fair to lead them to believe that they are getting something that they are not!!!
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Summary: Review your basic Spanish skills from high school, and then take it further. 2008-11-16
Comment: This DS "game" is a very nice tutorial to either remind you of some basic words that you learned eons ago, or to start you off from scratch. Having the pronunciation available is extremely helpful also.
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Summary: Spanish Coach learning easy 2008-11-13
Comment: This nintendo ds cartridge really helps to improve or practice or learn spanish. It has cool games to help improve memory and also you can listen and record to various spanish words from the"game" and being able to record your voice for comparison. Like anything, learning something new is a constant learning process and should be kept up.
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Summary: Easy to use and entertaining 2008-10-18
Comment: This is an easy to use and entertaining way to learn a language. There is a varity of ways tohelp you remember and practise the pronumciation of words. Would recommend it. The only thing it lacks is a section on sentence stucture as this would help overall understanding. But good fun, easy to use and helpful.
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Summary: This game is fun & entertaining 2008-09-27
Comment: 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.
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