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| elegia Diglot Pro Member Finland Joined 6629 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Italian, Russian, French Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 17 07 May 2008 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Funny coincidence. I ordered My French Coach from PlayAsia just a couple days ago. I only paid 16 euros so it was really cheap.
One review said that there were some problems with word pronunciation but it was rare and it wasn't that serious. I think it was review from IGN.com so look up from there. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cbell74 Newbie United States Joined 6092 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 17 07 May 2008 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I own both My French Coach and My Spanish Coach and generally recommend the titles.
PROS: Huge vocabulary Easy to understand pronounciations Ability to record your voice and compare it to the program Decent variety of games to increase memory retention CONS: A lot of useless vocabulary. For example, the Spanish word for "bumper" and "Philistine" have been covered in my game while basic words such as north, south, east and west have not. Hmmm...which one will I be more likely to use? Some of the phrases are mispronounced. I noticed several occasions where phrases were supposed to be in one tense but the actual sound file was in a different tense. Grammer is not explained very well. The program starts to throw out different tenses without explaining anything about them. It also does a poor job explaining direct and indirect objects. == With that said, for $20 US, this is a great little program to increase your vocabulary. It seems to work well if you are doing other methods for studying and not just relying on it. If the developers had greatly reduced the vocabulary to add a lot more space for grammer, this program would really shine. Edited by cbell74 on 07 May 2008 at 4:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Curt21 Groupie United States Joined 6305 days ago 55 posts - 55 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Japanese | Message 11 of 17 07 May 2008 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I own "My Spanish Coach" and think it is great. It covers a lot of the basic vocabulary, but you have to really work hard to retain the words.
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| unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6919 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 12 of 17 07 May 2008 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Tada! A new series of language learning games has just been announced.
Mind your Language for 5 different languages; English, French, German, Japanese & Spanish. It's great that game developers have finally realised that gamers want to learn Japanese. The screenshots don't look that great though ... spelling out words and playing hang-man isn't going to help someone learn a language a great deal. ...Except for spelling? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ssizz Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6093 days ago 66 posts - 72 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 13 of 17 08 May 2008 at 1:15am | IP Logged | |||||
No Mandarin, I see. T_T 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6773 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 14 of 17 08 May 2008 at 9:35am | IP Logged | |||||
Absolutely. They even have an "educational" section in the DS game aisle at toy stores, and I've seen educational titles on the shelves beside textbooks at bookstores. You can learn everything from geography to cooking with DS games (if you understand Japanese).
Only if it's a major hit; most educational products are narrowly targeted at the Japanese market, but the odd big hit makes it overseas (like the Brain Training series). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dizzycloud Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6603 days ago 88 posts - 109 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Turkish | Message 15 of 17 08 May 2008 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Would you be able to give us a few examples of how advanced the vocab goes in both the French and Spanish one?!?! Just curious...I know you've said it gets quite advanced but different people have different ideas of what 'advanced' is!
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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7226 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 16 of 17 25 August 2008 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
I just saw there is suppose to be a My Chinese Coach released this month. My Japanese Coach is being released in September. Of course these are from the My ___ Coach series creators UBI Soft and not Mind Your Language. Edited by alang on 29 August 2008 at 1:29am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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