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Holistic Guidance - My Word Coach
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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $19.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: UBI Soft
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 60
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: UBI Soft
EAN: 0008888163428
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Feature: The game evaluates your level, tracks and rewards your personal progression
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: UBI Soft
Manufacturer: UBI Soft
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 120
Platform: Nintendo DS
Publisher: UBI Soft
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Studio: UBI Soft
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Features
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The game evaluates your level, tracks and rewards your personal progression
17,000 words
Large variety of games
DS-Wii connectivity
Includes 5 multiplayer games when linking the DS and Wii
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Editorial Reviews:
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My Word Coach, developed in collaboration with linguists, helps players improve their verbal communication and vocabulary in a fun way. Practice need never get boring with six different exercises to choose between. Players can input missing letters from words, spell out the answers to various definitions, choose which word matches a particular definition, form specific words with Scrabble-like tiles, and more. Three levels of difficulty are available, and the game includes a built-in dictionary of over 17,000 words. Two of the games can be played multiplayer over wireless and the data of three different players can be saved. ESRB Rated E for Everyone.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: great
Comment: English isn't my mother tongue, and I wanted to improve my English. I bought this game, and I really like it. My English has improved already.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: Met all my expectations! This is a lot of fun and really helps build some vocabulary.
Highly recommended!
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Summary: An excellent tool for eleven year old son
Comment: I bought this game for my eleven year old son. He is bilingual in Spanish and English and I had hoped this would help him to improve English vocabulary and spelling skills. Although it is hard for My Word Coach to compete with his "fun only and non-educational" type DS games, he does actually find it to be be fun and challenging. He likes the fact that he is graded (given a "level") and must compete with himself to raise the level. Now, I just need to work on getting him to play 20 minutes daily! I am looking forward to a future "My German Coach" as he will begin German as his third language in school this fall!
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Summary: Keeping my brain busy
Comment: I work for a security company, and I often find myself in the middle of nowhere with nothing to look at and nobody to talk to. This makes falling asleep a serious risk, as in a risk to my employment and potentially a risk to the people and property I'm protecting. How do I avoid this problem? Playing games like My Word Coach
I found the games to be both fun and educational. I've already ordered My French Coach and My Spanish Coach. I do security once in a while for a Canadian cargo ship, and with all the illegal aliens, Spanish is becoming necessary to speak to people I encounter during my night shifts.
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Summary: Not nearly as fun as I had hoped....
Comment: Okay, I thought that MyWord Coach would be a good way to learn some new words... it wasn't, at least for me. (Although I do read a lot.) Here are my complaints-
1. The game seems to have been prepared for the British market; there are quite a few British words in here that aren't really used in American English. For example, I have had "flypast" instead of "flyby", etc. There are more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
2. The game does not have good, complete definitions for many of the words. For many of the words with multiple or more complex definitions, the definition expresses only a small part of what the word can mean.
3. There are far too many short/slangy/common words in here. For example: woozy, snazzy, watermill, porker, ninja, freeloader, etc. Now, it might seem a little odd that I'm complaining about this; however, I thought that since words take up little space as text files the game would probably contain many more difficult/advanced words. Also, my level on the game is pretty high, but these low-level words keep appearing.
4. The games get really boring.
5. There is no pronunciation key, nor audio of the words.
I guess I'm just a little disappointed; when I read about the advanced methods they used and the fact that they worked with the Cambridge dictionary, I just expected quite a bit more.
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