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My French Coach | 
| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $10.06
You Save: $9.93 (50%)
New (34) Used (4) from $10.06
Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 239
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.7
MPN: 16377
Model: 16377
UPC: 008888163770
EAN: 0008888163770
ASIN: B000SQ5LOG
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Adapted to any level, from beginner to advanced | | • | Regular evaluations on improvement | | • | Learn French through mini-games and competition | | • | Write your answers with the stylus on the Touch Screen | | • | With DS portability, translator and glossary features can help a traveler in any situation |
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Product Description
Playing My French Coach for 15 to 20 minutes a day is all you need to become fluent in French, no matter your age. The simple touch screen interface lets you spend less time learning the game and more time learning French. The game includes 8 touchpad mini-games to sharpen your skills at your own pace, and lets you track your progress with charts showing your performance learning the language. ESRB Rated E for Everyone.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Learning made fun May 6, 2008
This game is helping me learn French with easy/fun games in just minutes a day. My only gripe would be that the voice compare function does not tell you if you are saying it correctly. So far, it's been great for word memorization.
 Review & Learn March 25, 2008
The classes are very simple but you do learn new words and each new word is spoken in French so you can hear it. Then there are games to help you remember the new words you have used. Classes are only "unlocked" when you have mastered the words in the previous lessons. You can also play the games to master words which unlocks more lessons. Certainly great for reviewing French too if you had taken it in school.
 very limited, mostly focused on vocabulary February 12, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
this is a decent game/edutainment title in terms of production and content, but it's severely limited. there are relatvely few mini-games, and the focus is almost solely on vocabulary and short phrases. several verbs are introduced, but there's very little reinforcement and conjugation is never fully explained. after you get to lesson 35 or so the rest of the "1000" lessons consist of completely unrelated groupings of often useless vocabulary (e.g. "quarry"). there are tons of cognates which could've been spaced out a little more, and there are numerous notable mistakes (e.g. one lesson skips over presenting half of the word list and still tests you on them, and there are places where a word is presented as the translation, but then a different word is used when quizzing). all in all this is a good, but def. not great, package. clearly a quick money-maker that with a bit more time and effort could've been truly indispensable.
a fun learning tool January 30, 2008
i bought this game because i wanted to brush up on my french i had learned in high school. i thought it would be cool to learn another language. this game makes learning the language fun.it takes things in baby steps; they give you maybe a dozen words to learn in a lesson. you don't move on to the next lesson until you have that lesson down. it even has a feature where the teacher says the word, then you record yourself saying it and play it back.
You formal, You informal January 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The game teaches Tu is the formal form of You. I'm rusty on my French but not the basics. Tu is the informal form of You, and Vous is the formal form of You. I'm sure others fluent in French verify that. I can't see how they messed up on that, as it is very basic.
Simply google: french you tu vous. You will see other sources state that Tu is informal. The game teaches Tu as (fml.) when it should be (infml.)
Probably not ideal to be learning to use the incorrect form of You when you visit France and talk to strangers but oh well. Vous will apply to most everyone: strangers, older people, waiters, store clerk, doctor, and anyone you don't wish to offend.
Overall, I'd say it's ok as a supplemental activity to learning, but not as a main source. Best to look out for errors as you go along with the game, and check against another source. Otherwise it's fun as an activity involving French language.
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