My Spanish Coach (Nintendo DS, 2007)

My Spanish Coach for Nintendo DS is a wonderful way to review spanish for those who might not have used the language for a whiel. It is great for beginners as well. I bought it because I am studieing to become a translator and I thought it would be helpful. It quickly helps me to memorize words and it has a lot of other featurs that are benificial too, such as the dictionary!It has fun chanlenging games that you can set to however easy or hard you want it to be. I gets right to teaching and dosn't beat around the bush and I like that!
When you first begin it gives you a short placement test that lets you know what level you are at. It helps you learn spanish words, sentence structure and has 1'000 lessons,10'000 words and 700 phrases. You can also record your voice saying a word in spanish and play it back with the game saying it at the same time to compare your pronouciation and accent. Its a great adition to your spanish books and a really good studie help for anyone who is seriouse about trying to learn another language, or just wants to be formiliar with it. Now it won't teach you every thing you need to learn about the spanish language but it is a grat start!
If your still not sure about it rent one from a place like block buster or a game rental place online and try it for your self, or you could barrow your friends. My Spanish Coach for Nintendo DS is great, I don't feel like I wasted my money because I know its something I can always use or pass on once I master the language! Check it out!

I speak French and saw how quickly my boyfriend was picking it up using My French Coach, so I thought I'd give the Spanish version a try. The vocabulary lessons feature a native speaker's pronunciation that repeats it as many times as you want. You can even record your own voice saying it and compare it with the native speaker's. That, plus the fun games that make you use the words you just learned, make this the best way to learn a language on your own that I've witnessed yet. I hope they come out with more language versions of this like Italian, Chinese, etc...

Don't expect this game to teach you to be completely fluent in Spanish, but it is good for what it is.

This game can teach you how to say basic conversations and improve your vocabulary, but learning a new language requires you practicing EVERYDAY (in your head and out loud) and with multiple outlets (watch Spanish speaking tv stations or educational videos, listen to Spanish speaking music, talk to spanish speakers, etc) and learning NEW things about it everyday.. this game only has so much it can to do help you with that.

But if you do practice it at least 15 - 30 minutes a day you can definitely learn and retain knowledge on basic conversation.

If you are taking a Spanish class for school, this game is very good and fun thing to do to learn and retain some basic conversation and vocabulary.

My sister had requested it and I purchase one for her on ebay. Then when I tried it, I really like it. It was fun and educational. Addicting, really. It was a competition to see who could get to the higher level and we were learning at the same time. I then purchased another one on ebay for me, so now I got one. Hard to find game. Great find and price on ebay.

This game is only to expand vocabulary, no grammar whatsoever and it has no sound other than useless music so you learn words that you have no idea how to pronounce. On the plus side; it gives daily goals and even suggests that you stop playing after attaining the goals stating that playing a little on a regular basis facilitates learning as opposed to playing infrequently for an extended duration. That said; the games are fun so it's easy to look forward to playing the next day and in time expanding your vocabulary. Unfortunately it's possible nobody will understand you as you still have no idea how to pronounce any of the new words you've learned!