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My Spanish Coach | 
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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $29.99
New (5) Used (1) from $27.50
Rating:  58 reviews
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 16391
Model: 16391
UPC: 008888163916
EAN: 0008888163916
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| 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 |
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
Good for vocabulary and "hearing" Spanish November 29, 2008
Jack (NC)
I've gotten back into trying to learn Spanish since purchasing this game. I'm not that crazy about most of the word games that come with it but I enjoy "word search" for some reason and I enjoy learning new words and then playing games with the "mastered" words to improve the quickness of my understanding the words when I hear them. It's good enough to keep me trying to learn more which is the point. Bridge-builder sucks. Why don't they include more complicated sentences to construct rather than the same ones over and over.
 fun but not useful for advanced learners November 20, 2008
E. Carmichael (Johnson City, TN USA)
This is an amusing game and probably wonderful for beginners. Unfortunately there isn't really an advanced level.
 Shame on You, Nintendo and Amazon! November 18, 2008
K. Draper (norman, ok)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
"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!!!
Review your basic Spanish skills from high school, and then take it further. November 16, 2008
Wendy Calderone (Raleigh, NC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Spanish Coach learning easy November 13, 2008
Trung Nguyen
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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