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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $11.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 234
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.7
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Keep your wits about you! February 23, 2008
This is a great piece of software! I really enjoy expanding my vocabulary and this makes this activity fun. I bought this copy for my sister. I received this game for Christmas and it is my favorite. I highly recommend it for all. There is a activity in the beginning of use to ascertain your vocabulary level and will build up from there. This will also force your to build your spelling ability as well. Word Coach is a great buy.
Fun with Learning even for adults February 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of those games that in certain circles you say something about how you really prefer games that can teach you something. Well with this game I think you can actually make that statement and still be telling the truth.
Was this game more fun Mario Kart on the DS? No way.
Was this game more fun than most games on the DS? Yup!
I really enjoyed playing this. I found that most of the words, puzzles and games were not difficult at all. This is ok. If you learn one thing out of every 20 questions or so that is OK with me. I like to know I am not an idiot so a little validation in my game experience is OK with me.
The only complaint I have is often I would not score as high as I thought I should have and it would take me longer to answer a timed question or I would get it wrong due to the hand writing recognition software not recognizing my input. I am sure this is due to the way I am writing the letters and numbers but I did read the directions and it seems that the system has some consistent difficulty parsing my meaning. I don't see this as a complaint that others are raising so it must be mostly me. I wouldn't let it concern you. This is still a great game and I gave it 4 stars and probably would still have given it 4 stars with a perfect writing input featurset.
Awesome game for expanding your vocabulary! February 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When video games first started out they were merely a diversion, and still are very much designed for this purpose. Yet, in recent years there has been a new breed of games; games like DDR that get us to get off of our bottoms and get some exercize or games like "Big Brain Academy" that attempt to make us smarter or at least keep us from getting dumber. "My Word Coach" is yet another game that is targeted to make you more intelligent. "My Word Coach" was made to help expand your vocabulary while remaining fun to play, and it does succeed on those levels fairly well.
As far as scoring and game play goes, I liked the game play of the original "Brain Age" because it scored you based on days. Everyday you did new test that gave you your brain age; the new "Brain Age" will change that, and "My Word Coach" is basically the same. MWC does not score you daily, but just scores you as you play, but it does recomend that you wait to retake your test to more accurately gage your increasing vocabulary.
The games on here are fun, and I would have had even more fun were it not for my DS that is breaking. Even with this in mind, I had fun with games like "Split Decision" where you get to choose between two definitions of words and decide which one is write. There is also a tetris like game where you have to form words before the falling letter blocks reach the top, and even and alphabet soup game where scrambled letters have to be rearranged to form a word.
Overall, this is a fun game, and if you are looking to extend your vocabulary without reading a bunch of books, this is a fun and easy way to do it.
God Bless ~Amy
 For the love of words! January 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an aspiring writer this game was certainly created with me in mind. I love words and nothing is more exciting then learning a new word and adding to my vocabulary on a regular basis. I normally seek out my word fix by reading an endless amount of books but thanks to this game I have another way to feed my need for words words words. Not only that but it does it in such a way that your not aware your learning words instead your playing a game with words. Making it fun as well as educational. Now granted this game isn't for everyone but if you are a word-aholic such as myself theirs no better way to spend your time then with this game on the DS Lite.
Good educational game for kids January 23, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Although "My Word Coach" is not the kind of game most kids would appreciate receiving as a gift, as educational games go it is a pretty fun one.
Pro:
- Lots of mini-games, which are used for training but are also fun.
- Players are given a choice of four coaches; the "personalities" differ enough that it should be easy for anyone to find a good one.
- Crisp, clean graphical look.
Con:
- The game's initial player screening is not very precise. I'm a college graduate with a large vocabulary, and I got 100% correct on the minigames the program gave me to determine my starting placement. It still put me at 20%, "primary school graduate." I have to wonder what it would have called me if I hadn't gotten 100%!
- The handwriting recognition is not perfect; the program has repeatedly confused my "D" for an "M" (and I have very clear handwriting).
- As a result of the first "con" above, I find the game too easy. The words it is giving me include things like "juxtapose," "jurisdiction," and "overawe" -- there hasn't been a single unfamiliar word so far.
I'm sure the game will give me increasingly difficult words, and that if I stuck with it for a few weeks I would start learning new words from it; but I don't know if I have the patience to keep playing until I get to that point.
Overall, this would be a good game for children, if they would play it. It's probably too basic to be of much use to adults who already have good vocabularies and are interested in improving them.
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