My Word Coach
- The game evaluates your level, tracks and rewards your personal progression
- 17,000 words
- Large variety of sports meeting
- DS-Wii connectivity
- Includes 5 multiplayer sports meeting when linking the DS and Wii
Product Description
My Word Coach, developed in collaboration with linguists, helps players increase their verbal communication and vocabulary in a fun way. Practice need never get dull with six different exercises to choose between. Players can input missing letters from words, spell out the answers to various definitions, choose which word matches a particular definition, form specific words with Scrabble-like tiles, and more. Three levels of difficulty are available, and the game includes a built-in dictionary of over 17,000 words. Two of the sports meeting can be played multiplayer over wireless and the data of three different players can be saved. ESRB Rated E for Everyone.Amazon.com
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Although “My Word Coach” is not the kind of game most kids would appreciate receiving as a gift, as educational sports meeting go it is a pretty fun one.
Pro:
- Lots of mini-sports meeting, 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 simple for anyone to find a excellent one.
- Crisp, clean graphical look.
Con:
- The game’s early player screening is not very precise. I’m a college graduate with a large vocabulary, and I got 100% right on the minigames the program gave me to determine my starting residency. It still place me at 20%, “primary school graduate.” I have to marvel what it would have called me if I hadn’t gotten 100%!
- The handwriting recognition is not exact; 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 simple. The words it is giving me include things like “juxtapose,” “jurisdiction,” and “overawe” — there hasn’t been a release unfamiliar word so far.
I’m sure the game will give me increasingly hard 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.
By and large, this would be a excellent game for children, if they would play it. It’s probably too basic to be of much use to adults who already have excellent vocabularies and are interested in improving them.
Rating: 4 / 5
I tried playing this game as an adult and found that it was honestly pointless. I would recommend it for kids age 9-15. I reflect anyone grown-up than that would get too easily bored with it. It’s certainly more fun than studying a dictionary or textbook, but not fun enough to hold onto your attention for very long, especially not the way intellect Age does. There are six sports meeting you can play to increase your vocabulary:
1. Missing Letter – Screen displays an incomplete word and you must write in the missing letter. I found this incredibly simple, especially since anyone with a decent vocabulary will have at least a excellent guess as to what letter is missing. I could see this being a decent game for younger kids, but it still seemed pretty simple and dull.
2. Word Shuffle – You are given 4 words and 4 definitions and must match the right one with each. This is a much better game since it seems more useful, and some of the definitions can be tough since they are similar. My only complaint is that the interface on the DS is a small hard to get used to, and I reflect they could have done better on this one. Maybe drawing a line to the right definition?
3. Pasta Letters – There is a bowl of soup filled with letters and a definition in the top screen. You use letters in the bowl of soup to spell out a word that matches that definition. This seemed pointless to me. It would have been more efficient to have you just write out the word, but I guess the “fun” part is to wade around in the soup and find the letters. I guess you have to have a balance of fun and education, and maybe this would appeal to kids, but it was just an extra step I didn’t need.
4. Safecracker – Nearly the same as Pasta Letters, except you have a safe and have to go the dial around to spell out the word that matches the definition.
5. Split Choice – Another variant of matching the word to the definition. You can also match a definition to the word, but doing it this way is nearly too simple.
6. Block Letters – A chalkboard is presented with words on it and in the next screen, you must brilliant the right letters from a group to form those words. The excellent part of this game is that the letter pool you use to spell out the words doesn’t immediately contain all of the letters you will need, so you have to know in advance how to spell the word, and where to place the order of the letters. Although this seems like a unadorned game, it is probably one
Finally, the game gives you a score when you’re done to indicate how excellent your vocabulary is, just like intellect Age. Ultimately, I reflect this is a decent game for kids, but I’m not sure how many will really stick with it. It could be excellent for adults who have a weak vocabulary. Where I reflect the game will really excel though, are with the foreign language editions such as My Spanish Coach and My French Coach
Rating: 4 / 5
Ok – this is just a preview review since I have in fact not yet played it. It is my fault because I wrongly assumed it could be played on the computer as well – not just on a nintendo ds. I like scrabble and I am practically addicted to Scrabulous, the on-line scrabble game.
The concept seems splendid, and I am keen to play, but I must first find a nintendo ds… I will return with an update to this review…
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought My Word Coach for my 12 year ancient son as an educational alternative to the mindless, pointless sports meeting that Ninentendo seems bent on making. I had high hopes for this game. I wanted it to challenge my son with fun sports meeting while subtly improving his vocabulary. A tall order, I know!
There are three sports meeting:
The first reminds me of Tetris. On the right screen, blocks with letters on them fall to the ground and start stacking up. On the left screen, a list of vocabulary words is offered. The gamer must correctly spell the vocabulary words from the “letter blocks” on the right screen before the blocks stack to the top. This is a fun game but, like all of the sports meeting on My Word Coach, it doesn’t last long enough nor offer enough of a challenge.
The second game is a fill-in-the-blank type game where gamers must write the missing letter in a word on the screen.
The final game tests the gamers knowledge of word definitions. The player must choose between two different definitions for a release word.
The clear: The sports meeting are small, which helps to keep the young player interested while building their confidence. The game seems to recognize a wide range of handwriting. I purposely wrote several letters different ways and the game did an impressive job of correctly recognizing the letters. The tetris game is a lot of fun.
The unenthusiastic: The sports meeting could be a small longer – a few more words would make it more challenging and fun. I also reflect there should be an option to make each stage a small more hard. Finally, only three sports meeting? I reflect the gifted folks who brought out Animal Crossing and Mario Brothers could reflect of more than three spelling sports meeting. Why not some deviation of hangman wherein the player has to spell the word based on the definition?
Rating: 4 / 5
I got this game to share with my 12-year-ancient, and he likes it nearly as much as his arcade sports meeting. I’ve now played three full sessions on it, and while I see the obvious educational advantages, I don’t reflect I’m getting as much out of it as he is. Not to sound elitist, but perhaps it’s because I’m a novelist and a college graduate that I don’t find it very much of a challenge. Sure, I’ve learned a few new words, but I don’t find the game boosting my “word potential” as much is it claims it will. I agree with other reviewers who say the introduction and the statistical presentations are a bit “teachy”. The sports meeting present vocabulary lessons in a “fun” way, yet I found them not terribly fascinating or challenging. There are some irritating aspects, too – in the “missing letters” game, for instance, if one does not write the letter exactly as the game will recognize it, the letter is marked incorrect. (The manual does grant a chart on the “proper” way to write them.) And the medium level of “Pasta Letters” is nearly too hard to succeed at: letters often disappear before one has a chance to complete the word, after which the player has to wait sometimes up to 30 seconds for the next word to come up. On the other hand, the Tetris-stylishness block-drop game is nearly too simple once the player figures out the system and order of the dropping letters. The sports meeting seem to reward alacrity more than accuracy, to the point where the player must pick the right word at times before reading the whole definition. All that said, but, I still recommend the game for younger players, perhaps up to high-school level, as the vocabulary-building aspects of the game are still worth the play regard.
Rating: 3 / 5