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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: Video Game Brand: UBI Soft EAN: 0008888333913 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: UBI Soft Manufacturer: UBI Soft Model: 33391 Platform: Sony PSP Publisher: UBI Soft Release Date: October 07, 2008 Sales Rank: 1602 Studio: UBI Soft
Features:
8 mini-games to sharpen your mastery of the language at your own pace
Track your progress with charts showing your performance learning the language
Simple interface makes it perfect for anyone of any age
Product Description: Playing My Spanish Coach for 15 to 20 minutes a day is all you need to become fluent in Spanish, no matter your age. The simple touch screen Interface lets you spend less time learning the game and more time learning Spanish. The game includes 8 mini-games to sharpen your skills at your own pace, and lets you track your progress with charts showing your performance learning the language.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Absolute bargain for anyone interested in Spanish
This is a fantastic product. I've been studying Spanish for some time, and I've never come across a bargain like this. Even if you had to buy a PSP or Nintendo DS to go along with it, it would still be pretty good.
The grammar lessons cover a lot of what you would in perhaps 2 semesters of college, but they don't really quiz on it much. What this game really does is teach vocabulary. A LOT of vocabulary... something like 8000 words. The games are all pretty effective at getting words in memory, and you can have the software quiz you over what you've learned. Each word is pronounced for you, and it has a handy dictionary.
I've used Pimsluer and Rosetta Stone, and those are both very good at teaching how Spanish functions, but this software has both those beat in terms of teaching you vocabulary fast (but this stuff doesn't do much more than teach you thousands of words). And at less than a tenth the price.
There are several different games. Memory, flashcards, etc. The lessons go over some basic grammar rules and ten or so words, and have two games you must master to advance. Eventually you're just learning words each lesson from an animated janitor (apparently). The music and animated woman are corny, but I don't really care.
Loading times on the PSP are fair at best, but it's not a big deal. The 'smack the gopher' game takes a lot of practice to get good at, but as a side benefit I'm much better at other PSP games now that I've mastered the PSP stick. There are a few errors... sometimes the audio will now match the text (for example, a 'de' will be dropped from a sentence where it's not necessary). I've noticed about ten of these errors out of over 900 lessons... basically as many errors as a well edited textbook probably has.
This software teaches Latin American Spanish... and while the verb charts cover Vosotros, the quizzes ignore it. This is pretty standard.
Bottom line: you can learn Spanish with this and any old Spanish textbook. If you master both you will have a superior vocabulary than many students who have undergone several semesters of study. But you do need something in addition to this software to master grammar.
I am so pleased at the sheer value of this. If you want to learn Spanish, you are absolutely crazy not to buy this. Trust me on this...
