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Good learning experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game provides a good learning experience for the basics. It is possible to use it without gaining a great deal of French but with proper use it will give a good foundation. I will be studying French in France for 10 months and used this in combination with other tools to get a head start.

Fairly good as a vocabulary builder

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My French Coach is fine for learning new words. Early on in the sequence there are some lessons that impart new concepts, but at some point, it seems to morph into nothing more than a vocabulary builder totally void of any grammatical concepts or lessons. That's fine I guess. I had hoped for at least some sort of rudimentary lesson structure to build upon throughout the many, many levels which one can progress. It can't hurt you to spend time with this game. Just don't expect too much in the way of improving your grammatical skills.

I've Never Spent so Much Time Learning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The lessons make sense, you can go at your own pace, and the mini-games used to reinforce the vocabulary are well thought out. I'm horrible at learning foreign languages, yet I feel I'm doing alright using this product. Don't get me wrong, I don't think this program will have me speaking French fluently any time soon, but it should make getting around France a little easier when I go.

A Great Gadget!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Not perfect, but a great gadget for review. My husband and I are enrolled in an elementary French class, and we also have bought language programs for our computers. My husband transferred the audio parts of the computer programs onto MP3s that we can listen to when we are out and about, but I found that this "My French Coach" makes a great additional gadget to review what I have learned.
I am not so sure that a person could *learn* French this way, but it is a fun program.

As far as am "on the go" translator/dictionary I have had trouble using it in the French class. It doesn't have everything! Still, I am finding it a nice additon to resources I already have.

Excellent 1 on 1 coaching

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The games are great, lot of repetition, drilling and hearing the pronunciations are helpful. One of the recommendations that the game makes is that you also practice your new vocabulary outside of the game itself. It is not the easiest, but is worth the effort, especially when you start to understand the language.

My French Refresher

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased the game to help me review 4 years of high school French. I'm not sure if it would help a person just starting out but it does help review. Some of the games are useless and give too much credit towards mastering words but for the most part the oral and flash card challenges are good.

Learning really can be fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Interested in learning a new language? Don't have the self motivation for tedious, long hours of study with audio tapes or books? You're in the right place :).

Not only will you learn new things constantly but you won't even realize you're studying. Not only is this game very fun but very rewarding.

I love this game and it's awoken a love of the French language in me.

Learning made fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is helping me learn French with easy/fun games in just minutes a day. My only gripe would be that the voice compare function does not tell you if you are saying it correctly. So far, it's been great for word memorization.

Review & Learn

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The classes are very simple but you do learn new words and each new word is spoken in French so you can hear it. Then there are games to help you remember the new words you have used. Classes are only "unlocked" when you have mastered the words in the previous lessons. You can also play the games to master words which unlocks more lessons. Certainly great for reviewing French too if you had taken it in school.

very limited, mostly focused on vocabulary

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this is a decent game/edutainment title in terms of production and content, but it's severely limited. there are relatively few mini-games, and the focus is almost solely on vocabulary and short phrases. several verbs are introduced, but there's very little reinforcement and conjugation is never fully explained. after you get to lesson 35 or so the rest of the "1000" lessons consist of completely unrelated groupings of often useless vocabulary (e.g. "quarry"). there are tons of cognates (e.g. "cookie", which is the same in french) which could've been spaced out a little more, and there are numerous notable mistakes (e.g. one lesson skips over presenting half of the word list and still tests you on them, and there are places where a word is presented as the translation, but then a different word is used when quizzing). all in all this is a good, but def. not great, package. clearly a quick money-maker that with a bit more time and effort could've been truly indispensable.

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