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My Word Coach | 
| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $11.27
You Save: $8.72 (44%)
New (32) Used (10) from $11.27
Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 792
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 16342
UPC: 008888163428
EAN: 0008888163428
ASIN: B000ME25P2
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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:
Amazon.com
My Word Coach, developed in collaboration with linguists, helps players improve their verbal communication and vocabulary in a fun way. Practice 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 five multiplayer games can be accessed when linking the Wii and DS. The data of up to three different players can be saved.
Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
great September 19, 2008
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.
 Excellent! September 4, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Met all my expectations! This is a lot of fun and really helps build some vocabulary.
Highly recommended!
An excellent tool for eleven year old son August 26, 2008
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!
Keeping my brain busy July 30, 2008
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.
 Not nearly as fun as I had hoped.... July 18, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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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