My Word Coach

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My Word Coach DS

MODEL- 16342 VENDOR- UBISOFT

FEATURES- My Word Coach DS
Do you ever feel at "loss for words"?
Would you like to express yourself more clearly and with confidence?
Want to improve your vocabulary in a straightforward and
entertaining way?
In your daily life, knowing the right word can make all the
difference!
My Word Coach offers a fun and challenging way to improve verbal
skills through a series of engaging activities and exercises.

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-07-18 Not nearly as fun as I had hoped.... 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.

Reviewed on 2008-06-29 Fun! Hey, for $10, I'm having a blast with this "game". It's a nice addition to my growing set of "anti-aging" video games to keep my brain in gear. I use it almost every day and every now and then a new game is unlocked. Some of them I really like. Others are a little harder to figure out at first (heck, who REALLY reads the directions?), but eventually I get it.

Reviewed on 2008-06-28 The Word is Deplorable Producers of games premised on the enlightened arm of self-improvement, such as My Word Coach, are faced with baleful prospects from their work's incipience. First, they must overstep their otherwise stale chosen field with amusing sub-games to create a panorama of options to suit the players fancy at any given time: the player's willpower alone is insufficient to fund the puritan regiment. You won't find this in Word Coach, a game that specializes in eroding the willingness of even the most patient and forgiving gamers. Like other intelligence-raising games, the game begins with a paucity of sub-games to engage; in the case of Word Coach, two menial games are initially proffered: Missing Letter and Split Decision. Missing Letter takes "patented" advantage of the system's stylus, presenting the player with a word with the eponymous missing letter for him to write capitalized in the space below. Yes, that's all. Oftentimes the letter is not even one of especial difficulty, requesting the player to guess what letter is followed after -NG at the end of a word. Split Decision is an equally inane source of boredom. A poorly constructed definition is supplied on the upper screen and the answer is behind one of two opposing arrows. Sadly, there is not even a fifty-fifty chance of answering the question correctly, but a 100% one since the wrong definition is frequently egregiously inaccurate in any context. After completing either of these games the player is offered the chance to review his set of words met in each game accompanied by the same remarkably unmemorable definition. The player is awarded with differently styled games not through his performance, but by his daily tenacity and persistence to withstand the Sisyphus labors. I could only stand to play enough to earn two others: Pasta Letters and Block Letters. As asinine as it sounds, one is to spell out a word with quickly sinking alphabet letters drowning in what appears to be a sea of expired canned tomato soup. The only way to cause them to resurface is to blow into the microphone--a task that will undoubtedly make you light-headed if not utterly swoon, for the letters disappear at an astounding rate. Block Letters is worse than vomiting up that endless bowl of tomato soup in Pasta Letters if you were hungry for more ways to dull your mind. This time, one is to spell out words from letters that fall with prodigious slowness with no way to alter the speed. Both are utterly uneventful. Besides the uncreative and atrophied style, your "coach" has as little character and enthusiasm as the games themselves, serving absolutely no purpose. "And while were at inserting a useless role," said the producers of My Word Coach," why don't we make four others fill it and give them all stereotypical appearances and names of the ethnicity rainbow while softening our racial vision with enough political correctness to avoid angering anybody?" White man and former Breakfast Club tyrant Alastair Archibald, pant-suited feminist and iron-boxed businesswoman Veronica Munroe, afro'ed brotha from da hood brought out to inspire intercity youths Lucius King, and under-nourished, pretentious good-Brit Penny, are all at your service--and are really all the same under-developed person. They all have that same unchanging and featureless face shared by the poor fool who would attempt to raise his vocabulary for the SAT or GRE with this ponderous gourd of a game assigned with an uninspiring and tedious music score most likely written on a gas station's bathroom's used toilet paper roll by a fired construction worker and wife beater. Don't buy this game. Read literature, write down words you don't know, look them up, and practice with them with notecards and filling in sentences.

Reviewed on 2008-05-25 Lots of fun...and you learn some new stuff.... i bought this game less than a week ago and it has become my favorite of the Nintendo DS "educational" games. It's just a lot of fun to play, Pasta Letters in the medium mode is my favorite(but you have to be quick or the letters sink into the soup.) Block Letters is the most frustrating, you're at the mercy of how the blocks fall. Get the game, put away the Television remote, and enjoy learning. In my view, Ninetendo has made learning and working the brain fun, if not a bit addictive...in the good way of course...

Reviewed on 2008-05-20 You can learn foreign words and mistakes... I think this game is enjoyable in the early stages, but as your expression potential goes up you run into problems. In some case, very obscure meanings of words are used for definitions, ignoring more common uses. Foreign words like 'oeuvre', or 'the rank below captain' being 'subaltern' are more common that I appreciate. In the worst cases, the definitions are not to be found in any Websters dictionary. 'Forelock' according to this game has nothing to do with hair, but is "To show respect to someone in a higher position than you in a way that seems old fashioned." I like to learn new words, and was really frustrated when I looked this one up to find out it was wrong. Now I wonder how many other 'new' words or meanings I've learned are also incorrect? At first it was mildly annoying to have your score reduced by these deficiencies, but more and more it is becoming a fatal flaw. If you're looking at this game for kids to have some fun while learning some new words, it might work well. But it you have a good vocabulary and are looking to challenge yourself and see just how good, you run the risk of being frustrated as I am by the poor quality of the words and definitions at anything above the early levels. I have only been using the game for a couple of weeks... it hasn't taken long for these deficiencies to drain a lot of the fun out of it.

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