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My Word Coach | 
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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.99
You Save: $7.00 (35%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 426
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 17342
UPC: 008888173427
EAN: 0008888173427
ASIN: B000ME3M5O
Release Date: June 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The game evaluates your level, tracks and rewards your personal progression | | • | 17,000 words | | • | Large variety of games | | • | DS-Wii connectivity | | • | Includes 5 multiplayer games when linking the DS and Wii |
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Product Description
Would you like to express yourself more clearly and with confidence? Want to improve your vocabulary in a straightforward and entertaining way? In your dailylife, knowing the right word can make all the difference, and My Word Coach offers a fun and challenging way to improve verbal skills through a series of engaging activities and exercises. ESRB Rated E for Everyone
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My Word Coach, developed in collaboration with linguists, helps players improve their verbal communication and vocabulary in a fun way. Practice 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 games can be played multiplayer over wireless and five multiplayer games can be accessed when linking the Wii and DS. The data of up to three different players can be saved.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Fun! June 29, 2008
Ok this is fun and educational. Some of the level types are a bit akward. The good part is, you can stick to the game level types that you like and still learn all the words. Overall this is a fantastic tool. I am well educated, with a couple of bachelors degrees and it teaches me new words!
Useful learning game. June 24, 2008
This game is great with a lot of words to learn... One thing I didn't like is the spray paint game, but if you have a DS you can link it to use the DS to play the spray paint. And that's a lot of fun. So, overall great game, if you have the DS, it's even better.
Flawed but addictive June 15, 2008
It's a good thing this game reminds you to stop playing for the day or between this and the Fit balance board I wouldn't get anything else done. It's a fun way to learn new words or get a reminder that words you once used still exist after you've had to dumb your language skills down to be understood by everyone in the workplace.
I work in a place where terms like "brainfart" and "Git R done" appear in official memos so it's possible the rest of you looking to buy this game don't have the same thirst for trisyllabics. If you do I can highly recommend it as both entertaining and satisfying.
There are a few annoyances which pop up from time to time that catch my attention but fade quickly. The control with the remote can be a little shaky and imprecise. I don't have the other controller so I can't comment on how well or badly it compares. I had to retrain myself on writing B's because I use a stroke and two humps up. The game sees this as a Q. The trainer or coach or whatever will often tell me I beat my old record when I haven't.
My main gripe, however, is that about 85% of the words can be used in conversation but the rest are names of transliterated ethnic foods or rare wild animals or other weird and generally useless words which are fun to spell. I can't see using taramasalata in a sentence other than this one and after finding out what it is I certainly won't be ordering it if I ever find myself in Greece. I'll stick to the desserts.
In spite of this I have played daily since I bought it and haven't gotten bored yet.
 Scratching the Surface for EduGaming May 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Of the stack of software I bought for my new Wii, this is, by far, the most worthwhile. *My Word Coach* has meaty content in a clever delivery. It's maybe not best suited for the Wii interface--sometimes I feel I'm being tested more on my controller skills than on my linguistic aptitude--but that's a small concern.
This program should serve as a model for future developments in EduGaming. The format seems well suited for related content. The structuring of the delivery is impressive; when I've completed my daily quota, I'm often disappointed, but so pleased that the producers included this function. Indeed, it IS necessary to stop and let the information "sink in" before progressing to new material.
I intend to integrate this program into my university teaching because it is a fine mix of appealing game interface and excellent scholarship. And for the creators? I have a list of additional titles I'd like to see you create!
my opinion of my word coach game May 3, 2008
This is a fun game to play with 6 different training games and 2 games to play for fun. Also has a few multiplayer games. In the spelling be game it is sometimes hard to understand the word that is said so it is hard to spell it right. Overall worth the price.
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