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Great learning game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased My Spanish Coach after seeing some good reviews online, I bought this for my 12 year old nieces birthday since she seems to get bored with regular games. I also wanted to help my niece to learn Spanish since it's part of her heritage. She loves the game so far, the mini games and helpful pronunciation "coach" have encouraged her to keep on trying to learn the language. I hope the progress chart keeps her motivated enough to continue playing this game and to eventually learn the language fluently. This game is a must buy for any teen or preteen in Southern California.

Excellent, Ubisoft MySpanish coach ROCKS!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. The game teaches you words and grammar in fun way. Who ever thunk it, ROCKS!!!! I LOVE YOU. Thank you for helping me learn Spanish. I recommend this game to everyone who is learning Spanish. My only wish is that UBISOFT makes this game for Roman Latin, Gaelic, Japanese, and Chinese...basically all the languages around the world. While I am practicing my son listens to me and my game and he is learning Spanish too....YEAH. Anyone who wants to learn Spanish, BUY THIS GAME. It is fun, light, informative and educational.

Great Way to Improve Your Spanish!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love "My Spanish Coach" and am hoping there'll be a "Mandarin Coach" soon. (It can use pinyin rather than characters, if needed).

I don't know how it would be for someone "learning from scratch", but if you've ever had any Spanish in the past, this is great for reviewing and adding to whatever you can remember.

The negative reviews seem to be people who didn't use the "Reference" section. That's where the phrasebook...dictionary...pronunciation practice are (you hear a native speaker with your phrase of choice, then it records your voice saying the same thing--you can read it on the screen in both English and Spanish--and plays back to show you how close you came. Great feature!).

I'm not sure if this is present from the beginning, or if it unlocks. But you can look back at previous lessons and see grammar lessons on important verbs, grammar rules, etc. There are also interesting facts about history and geography in various parts of Central and South America.

I just built points with the vocabulary games and kept unlocking then went back and looked at the lessons. I'm sure there are many ways to do it, but this worked well for me. There is A LOT to learn and practice here--all at your own pace--and it blends audio and written practices beautifully.

This is a GREAT product. (Even helped me pass 2 hours productively and pleasantly while waiting at the car dealer!).

Good, not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a college student, but I have been taking spanish classes for years. I went to Spain last year and realized all those years of spanish taught me virtually nothing. I decided to get this game based on the reviews and I am somewhat impressed. Players start off with a quiz to see where to start in their spanish training, but even though I got every question right on the test I still started on lesson 17 or something (I don't remember exactly), and many of the future lessons were filled with words I already knew. Also, some of the translations of words I have never heard before, for example the game uses "auto" as the word for car. I have learned this word year after year to be "coche" or "carro." I'm sure auto would be understood, but it's not the correct or prominent word. I did enjoy that words are primarily taught through games becuase it's makes it more fun though. If you are looking to learn the whole language, you won't learn it from this game, but if you are looking for a few phrases for a job or a short trip, this will help you get your points across. It's deffinitly worth the price!

Pros:
-games teach words, making it more fun to learn
-voice comparision to compare your pronounciation with theirs
-large amount of lessons and vocab are taught
-words from previous lessons are often repeated in future ones
Cons:
-some of the words are inncorrect translations
-if you already know a good amount of spanish, you can't skip over all the lessons you already know. You can skip some, but not all.
-some of the pronounciations are off

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