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| My French Coach Level 1: Learn To Speak French (Nintendo DS) | 
 enlarge | From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 264
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 4.9 x 0.8
EAN: 3307210337474
ASIN: B000XD4R26
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 More fun than educational October 6, 2008
Don't buy this game to learn French, because you won't - get Michel Thomas Foundation Course: French (Michel Thomas Series) or one of Michel Thomas' other fantastic courses to do that. However, if you are bored with your other French courses or want some revision, this game will help and it's a lot of fun. There's a game in which you have to fill in the missing letter from each of a series of French words; one to guess the meaning of a word, given a choice of two; another where you are given a definition and have to spell the word using spaghetti letters that sink if you are too slow; and another where you have to spell given words using letters that fall from the top of the screen and use the letters up before the pile of letters gets too high. You get the idea. Even my son likes the games, and will even sit and watch me play.
Tres bien July 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My French Coach Level 1: Learn To Speak French (Nintendo DS)
An excellent learning tool, which becomes addictive! I love the pronunciation help, sadly this is missing in Level 2. I agree with another reviewer, who commented on the lack of gender. Otherwise, I would have given 5 stars for both categories. It is still a worthwhile purchase for anyone wanting to learn or brush up on the French language.
 It works. It's fun. It's brilliant! June 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How much do I love this - way too much. How much have I actually learnt - an incredible lot. I cannot recommend this enough.
Excellent Tool To Improve French March 10, 2008
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
I bought this for myself to use on my son's DS Lite to brush up my school learnt French some twenty odd years ago. It tests you at first to see what lesson to start you on.
You read about how to write French and translate English into French before inserting words into sentences, find words in word searches, hit moles on the head that have the right word wrote on them and answer multi choice questions. The words are said in French which helps you to hear how you should pronounce it.
Each time you do a lesson or a game you are awarded points, when you attain enough points, ie show you understand the words/lesson the next lesson opens up.
This is a fun way to brush up on French or to use an ancilliary aid for the kids learning French at school. I would definitely buy it if my sons were in secondary school or even in primary to give them a head start.
I definitely recommend it for those wanting to learn a language, brush up on a language or for kids to help them at school. The main thing it is fun but you are learning at the same time.
 Tant pis! February 11, 2008
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
A real missed opportunity here!
The basic concept is OK. Repetition helps in language learning and a little fun helps you learn without getting too bored. Unfortunately these games won't keep you interested for too long.
When it comes to content this game has the same FATAL error as My French Coach 2 - it tries to teach vocabulary without giving you gender and so only does half the job and makes it impossible to even simple gramatical construction without recourse to an ordinary paper dictionary. It should have been very easy to include un/une in the dictionary and in all the vocab lessons (or even to do it subliminally with colour) - but it seems that no one associated with this project has pointed this out!
The best thing about this Level 1 version is that it DOES (unlike Level 2, the Vocab trainer) include good pronunciation files. Neverthless the omission of Gender suggests that you should spend your money elsewhere (especially if this games is one of your main reasons for buying a DS as it was in my case!).
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