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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $19.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 496
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 16377
Model: 16377
UPC: 008888163770
EAN: 0008888163770
ASIN: B000SQ5LOG
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 very limited, mostly focused on vocabulary February 12, 2008
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
this is a decent game/edutainment title in terms of production and content, but it's severely limited. there are relatively 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 (e.g. "cookie", which is the same in french) 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
8 out of 9 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.
Great! January 12, 2008
My 9 year old son wasn't keen on learning a new language but I knew that he loved using his Nintendo ds. I purchased "My French Coach" for Christmas and he loves it! Learning should be fun and this is a great way to introduce children to another language.
 Grammar Errors and More! Beginners need only to apply. January 7, 2008
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
I had this game for 2 days and played it for a few hours...only to realize that it's a horribly made game.
The grammar is never really touched upon, and the use of articles (critical in French) is overlooked almost completely. You are taught words like pastéque (watermelon) but are never taught that it's really "un pastéque", a masculine word.
If you ever have a vocab word longer than 14 letters, then it won't show up in most minigames and you'll have to play other games to pick it up, and you have to if you want to go to the next lesson. I reached lesson 24 before I gave up on this silly game.
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