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My Spanish Coach Level 2: Improve Your Spanish (Nintendo DS) | 
 enlarge | From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 608
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: edutainment-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 4.9 x 0.8
EAN: 3307210327970
ASIN: B000UVRXD6
Release Date: November 23, 2007
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 A fun progression from Level 1 January 5, 2009
Rebecca (England)
I agree with Renate's previous review that My Spanish Coach Level 2 has been a bit misunderstood. If you have completed Level 1 then the games in Level 2 will not be that difficult as you should already know most of the words, their meanings and uses. Level 2 is mainly about making those words more familiar and being able to have fun with them in puzzles in the same way as in the English version My Word Coach.
You start Spanish Coach 2 with a tutor who guides you through how to navigate the screens, play the first games and create a personal profile. You are also given a test to measure your word knowledge and ability to express yourself. Once you have an initial percentage and ranking, you build those up gradually using the puzzles and games such as Missing Letter, Pasta Letters, Safecracker etc. The aim is to achieve a set amount of correct answers each day which will unlock new games and difficulty levels as well as improving your status.
It is a fun game and you only need to play for around half an hour per day to achieve your daily objective which is handy for those who don't have much spare time. I would recommend My Spanish Coach Level 2 to anyone who wants to continue practising the Spanish they have learnt previously, either in My Spanish Coach Level 1 or through their own studies.
A little misunderstood November 18, 2008
Renate (Norway)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I`ve read a few of the rewievs, and I really think most of the people who have written here should have bought My spanish coach Level 1 instead. You`re requesting verb-conjugations and stuff, which is really basic. I think you`re underestimating how much you can learn in Level 1, and maybe overestimating your own knowledge of spanish... In the Level 1 version you learn all the basics, there are 10000 words and about 1000 lessons. And you open a lesson where the words are presented and a bit of conjugation and building sentences before you have to master every word you`ve learned, just like one of the rewievers requested. I think both of these games are really great, but you need to start in the right end... I`ve managed to learn spanish using these games, so for you guys who have english as your mainlanguage it should be absolutely possible if you take your time to understand how to use the game.
 not the best idea if you really want to learn spanish August 26, 2008
dee (UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is completely different to what I was expecting.
In principal this game teaches you nothing. You just sit there playing games. Most of them have no use whatsoever in teaching you anything.
After playing enough games you receive a qualification. I am currently a 'lawyer'. Well, if all lawyers in Spain had my level of knowledge in Spanish, the country would be in deep trouble!
I would not really recommend this, unless you just wanna play around with it for a few weeks, learn nothing and then get bored of it and leave it at one side. Have not used it for a long time...
 A wasted opportunity... July 24, 2008
Mr. M. Robertson (Scotland)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've been learning Spanish for the last couple of years and have completed a night class and various other language courses. I have an extensive collection of books, cd's etc and was really looking forward to using my DS to pick up some Spanish in my spare time.
My Spanish Coach - Intermediate isn't actually what you'd imagine it to be. Rather than being a more advanced version of the My Spanish Coach - Beginner, it's a Spanish translation of My Word Coach, an English language vocabulary building game. There really is nothing of an intermediate nature about it. You don't learn any intermediate topics at all: verb conjugation of the subjunctive, how to use different sentence structures, etc.
You learn vocabulary by playing 6 mini games, half of which are reasonably fun and half of which are rather dull. I really, really wanted to like this game but unfortunately there are just too many things that it misses the mark on. It's incredibly annoying because the concept of using a DS to learn a foreign language is brilliant - but somehow they've totally screwed it up.
First, and most importantly, word genders are omitted entirely - so you have no idea whether a word is masculine or feminine. This is absolutely vital in Spanish language!
There is no mention of whether the word is a noun, verb, etc. and no sample sentences are given on the context the word can be used in.
These are things that any serious Spanish text book provides. All the game does is throw more and more words at you every day. Words are not grouped into sensible categories so you never know what you're going to get next.
There is no real structured learning. You never have a chance to learn and review the words first before being tested on them. You only get to see what words mean after you've completed the games. This approach might have worked reasonably well in the English version of My Word Coach, but we're dealing with a foreign language here so everything needs to be clearly explained beforehand.
What they should have done is given you a number of words each day to learn and then test yourself on in the mini games, and once you've learned those you should move onto the next set of words.
There are errors in some of the word translations. For example, `trance' is translated as being a kind of music, when in fact the most common usage of it means `dazed, unconscious' etc. Some of the translations are technically correct but rather weak, and you only ever get one definition, when some commonly used words might have more than one.
It's not so much that the game is terrible, it's just that it should have been absolutely amazing because it's so clear that the DS is perfectly suited to learning a foreign language. I hope that they do another version in the future that fixes all of the faults I've mentioned.
Pretty weak attempt at teaching Spanish February 7, 2008
Steven Brown
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this game thinking that it would be pretty helpful in developing my Spanish vocab, and somewhat along the lines of the "Brain Age" series.
Instead, it's just random word games for you to try. When you complete a certain amount each day, you get upgraded in classification. But you learn very little - I found it frustrating that the classification is just the accumulation of points. It's not the Brain Age thing of doing a spot check on your knowledge, and grading you based on that - it really is just playing enough games on one day, and getting enough ticks to pass.
Half the games do nothing to actually link the words in your mind - i.e. there is a tetris game which makes you form words from the dropping letters. However, there is no definition, or need for you to know what the word means. It's just, well, like tetris...
Unless you look at the vocab after it, you won't learn it - and I can do that just as well out a book.
very unimaginative, and deeply disappointing. Avoid.
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