Brush up or start from scratch on the Chinese language with My Chinese Coach. Learn Chinese using carefully structured lessons that guide you through vocabulary and calligraphy exercises. Learn the basic pronunciations unique to the Mandarin language. Use the Nintendo DS stylus to properly write Chinese Kanji Characters. Play through a series of fun and informative mini-games that reinforces the lesson content.
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Five Star Chinese My Chinese Coach
This is one of the best Chinese (Mandarin) learning programs which I have come across and it is in a convenient format, as well.
The program is designed to start at a very basic level and after brief testing, you will be placed into the appropriate level. Each lesson gives the user several vocabulary words and several interactive ways of learning, from flashcards, hit-a-word, multiple choice, tones, and fading characters. Notes on culture are included intermittently. Users also have the opportunity to practice speaking and there is a feature to compare the user's speaking with that of a native speaker.
The program effectively reinforces learned material, while pairing it with new. The fading characters portion of the program is quite challenging, as it moves very fast, but once you start getting the hang of it, it is quite helpful. Some users have criticized the program for not including much Pinyin, (Romanized written alphabet/pronunciations), however, it serves the user well to learn pronunciations coupled with characters, as Pinyin is not used in China, except by children learning the language.
This is a great tool for kids, as well as adults. At $29 for over 1000 lessons, it is a bargain!
Just good graphics, the rest is very very POOR Well, I made the mistake of purchasing this game without reading reviews first. The ONLY good thing about this game is the ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS, all the rest is junk.
Why I say this? Well, some of the reasons are that even that it has ARCADE mode, you first have to complete a whole Championship (and school mode), if you don't, you CAN'T play ARCADE, neither the Argentina and other tracks, you are limited to play only in 3 tracks!! That's UK, France and Italy, that's it for single player mode. The only multiplayer mode is VERSUS, the other option is also LOCKED. The car options are OK, you can choose from several cool looking cars, but BEWARE, they are JUST GOOD LOOKING, <>, yes, there are no different engine sounds or a sense of change on performance. For example, if you drive a Subaru Impreza and then a Seat Ibiza, you will not notice ANY changes, just the color and the physical aspect of the cars.
So, the final ratings from me (1 - 5 scale, 1 = Worst, 5 = Best):
FUN = 2 GRAPHICS = 5 SOUND = 1 CAR SELECTION = 1 TRACK SELECTION = 2 PRICE VRS. FUN = 1
Rent it before you buy it, you'll se I'm not lying.
Outrageously fun word game for everyone on the NDS / Exciting puzzle solving and enhanced literary skills / ESRB E Everyone
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Just another Re-Hash of My Word Coach by UbiSoft My word coach part 2, basically. Even the jazzy background music is the same. The same candy-bar graph that measures how much you've accomplished for the day's lesson is still used. It's one of the big turn offs I had about My Word Coach. To complete the daily requirement, you need to schedule a good 45 min. I like the quick Brain Age type games better.
If you like My Word Coach, then consider getting this one.
Get ready for the SATs the easy way. Developed in Ubisoft's Montreal studio and in partnership with The Princeton Review, My SAT Coach helps students prepare for the SAT exams by presenting timed drills and other activities in mini-games. Game scores are tracked and you are given recommendations on how to improve testing performance. It includes more than 2,000 practice questions and two full-length practice exams.
The Real Expert -- Methods are based on proven Princeton Review techniques, building your basic skill sets and allowing you to get the most out of your study time
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Wonderful Prep I got this game to introduce my Fiance, who was taking the SAT a little late in life, to his DS. He really liked it. It helped him get a really good idea what his score would be when he took it for real and helped him improve his initial one several hundred points. He ended up somewhere in the 90's percentile wise.
His only complaint was that on 1 or two of the questions on the test the answer was actually wrong. It crossed out his answer and gave an explanation as to why the answer he had chosen was correct . . . go figure. Nothing's ever perfect. :) That's why I rated this with 4 instead of 5 stars.
Amazon.comThanks to UbiSoft's My Japanese Coach for the Nintendo DS, you can carry a tutor in your pocket that lets you learn a new language in as little as 15 minutes a day. With plenty of entertaining lessons, loads of fun-to-play mini-games, and a host of helpful features, this unique language coach will have you not only speaking like a native in no time, but reading and writing like on as well!
Carry a tutor in your pocket with My Japanese Coach. View larger.
Learn in Fun and Interactive Ways My Japanese Coach is an installment in the My Coach series from UbiSoft series that teaches the basic pronunciations unique to the Japanese language. This convenient and easy-to-use tutor allows users to compare their pronunciation to that of native speakers via the Nintendo DS's microphone. It also lets you use the DS stylus to practice writing Japanese Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji characters.
My Japanese Coach takes you on a virtual tour of Japan while you're learning the language. Lesson plans take place in a wide array of Japanese locations, from the densest of population centers like Tokyo, to the idyllic Japanese country side. You actually get to explore Japan while you learn new vocabulary as you open each point of interest.
Learn From a Master Meet Haruka, the in-game digital sensei, or teacher, that exists solely for the purpose of teaching you Japanese. After giving you a small placement-style test, Haruka will get you started working through the various stages of your lessons. Gaining mastery points by playing the various learning games allow you to clear each level. Once you master all the words given in a specific level, you move on to the next level.
As you work your way through over a 1,000 lessons, your language skills are constantly tested and sharpened by various mini games. My Japanese Coach includes 12 types of mini games, ranging from Flash Cards, in which you hear a word and have seconds to choose the correct English translation, to Bridge Builder, where you are required to string words together in the correct order to create a complete sentence. And with mini-games that add a clever twist to classic favorites--like Memory that forces you to match the same words in two different languages--you will be sure to have fun while you learn.
My Japanese Coach also features a built-in dictionary and phrase book that includes over 12,000 words and hundreds of useful everyday phrases.
Meet Haruka, the in-game digital sensei, or teacher. View larger.
Sharpen and test your language skills with mini games. View larger.
Use the DS stylus to practice writing Japanese characters. View larger.
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Great, at first Just got this game for Christmas and I must say I am completely addicted. I've been studying Japanese off and on for years from textbooks and computer programs but nothing has ever held my attention, or kept me entertained and interested like this game does. Overall I am still loving this game, but after a little while you'll notice some majorsdownsides...
1. It gives you a test at the beginning to see how much you already know and what level you should start out at. It started me off at level 9. However, whenever I went back to look at lessons 1-8 it had skipped me over a lot of things I didn't know - including colors, days of the week, months, & hiragana.
2. Lessons are unlocked based on the number of points your earn. This leads to my biggest gripe with the game - as I went back through lessons 1-8 to learn everything I didn't know, I kept receiving points and more lessons kept unlocking. This was fine up till Lesson 11 unlocked, but now that I've unlocked up to Lesson 15 I can no longer enjoy playing ANY of the games because all of the games are filled with information I haven't learned yet and know nothing about.
3. It also gives you too much credit, too fast. You're exposed to a new word and if you recognize it correctly about 5 times it adds the word to a list of "mastered words" but that's going too fast for me. Just because I know the word today doesn't mean I'll still remember it 2 days from now when I play again.
I see other reviews complaining about some incorrect stroke order on the kana, but I personally have no problem with it. I bought an Anpanman game in Japan that teaches little kids kana and the stroke order that game uses is the exact same as the MJC uses. All of the textbooks I've bought and studied from in the U.S. use a different stroke order than the games; I think either way is acceptable as long as it's legible in the end. Making such a huge deal about stroke order just seems elitist to me; I wouldn't give a care if someone studying English wrote their S's starting at the bottom, as long as the end result gave the same legible letter.
In Open Season, you'll team up with a cast of crazy critters for a riotous romp in the great outdoors. When a grizzly named Boog gets lured into leaving home by a fast-talking mule deer named Elliot, he finds himself lost in the woods -- just three days before hunting season. Forced to "rough it," Boog goes native, rallying all the forest animals to take back their home and send the hunters packing. The rowdy brood of forest animals turns the tables on a bunch of unsuspecting hunters.
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Crashes computer This game looks professional with big names like Sony and slick packaging, but it crashed my son's NEW gaming computer--along with a message stating the serious error was stopped before it could damage the computer. Don't buy it!
In Over G Fighters, a terrorist organization threatens the world's peace and security as players take to the skies in a united world air force. Take the fight to the enemy in aerial battles all over the world and face massive, challenging missions. Players will feel the G-forces and hear the roar of jet engines in 5.1 channel stereo as they ignite the after burner. Fly the world's most powerful fighters: Fly every modern jet fighter in the Western arsenal including the F-22A Raptor, the US air superiority fighter of the 21st century. Face more than 90 Western and former Soviet enemies and get in the cockpit of the F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16C Fighting Falcon, F/A-18C Hornet, Su-27 Flanker, MiG-29A Fulcrum, and F-117A Nighthawk.
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Hmm... Not as fun as I originally thought it would be . Glad I didnt buy it . I love jet games which I mostly play on my PC. I rented this for my 360 and Im glad I did before I bought it . Some may like it, some may not, its not a bad game just not fitting what Im use to on PC.
Amazon.com Buckle up for some good-ol', full-throttle action racing from Florida to California and compete for your chance to hang out with the Hooters girls. Choose from a garage full of smokin' rods. There are 16 cars from which to choose, including seven bonus cars to keep pace as the race heats up. You can also blast tunes from Hooters rockin' presets.
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Hands on the wheel I really enjoyed this game - the milk puddles are certainly a innovative feature! The scenery even includes the Capitol building AND the Taj Mahal! There were many hills & valleys through which to navigate my shift-stick! Why thanks to THIS game, kids can start off teenage pregnancies even EARLIER! Congratulations UBISoft, you can now lay claim to corporate encouragement of bad parenting. All-in-all a very memorable game + proof that genious STILL exists! Yes, the cross-promotional possibilities are ENDLESS! I'm even thinking about checking out that new motorcycle racing game: "Trojan Crotch-Rockets"!
No Surrender: Battle Of The Bulge shows you the true face of combat. Command over 85 different Allied and Axis units -- the fiercely intense military assaults transport you directly to World War II frontline action.
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Great Game!! I love this game and play it all of the time!! The camera angle took a little getting used too, but after that everything went great. There are 3 campaigns, the fist one is: Prelude (Normandy & Huertgenwald) which deals with the movement of the Allied forces from the beaches of Normandy up to the German border in late summer and autumn 1944. There are 4 battles in this campaign: Caumont, Mortain, Kall Valley & Vossenack. The next and main campaign of the game deals with the Battle of the Bulge, the first 11 missions of the campaign focusing on the German attack and the last two concentrating on the defeat of the Germans. The last campaign deals with the final battle between the U.S. Army and the Wehrmacht: The last German offensive (Nordwind), clearing of the Colmar pocket, and finally the crossing of the river Rhine by the Americans near Remagen. The Graphics are fantastic and each mission comes with great scenerio info included at the beginning of each battle. Highly recommended!!
