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My Chinese Coach | 
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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $28.84
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 929
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 16429
Model: 16429
UPC: 008888164296
EAN: 0008888164296
ASIN: B001BZ691C
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Explore China as each point of interest opens up your vocabulary - Lesson plans take place within interesting locations ranging from Beijing to the countryside | | • | Learn to pronounce sounds unique to Chinese by comparing your voice to a native speaker - Voice recording and playback feature of the DS lets you compare your accent to a native Mandarin speaker | | • | Develop your calligraphy skills as you trace over animations showing the proper way to write in Chinese - Write Chinese characters using the DS stylus and touch screen | | • | Participate in mini-games that will test your grasp of the structured lessons featured in the game - 12 mini-games reinforce lesson plans and the ability to write in Chinese | | • | Use the built-in reference tool to look up useful words and phrases - Chinese Dictionary and phrasebook with over 12,000 Mandarin words and hundreds of useful phrases. |
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Good intro to learning chinese October 7, 2008
This game's a great start to learning how to speak chinese, however I found it difficult on writing. Yes, you can trace chinese characters one at a time, but making strokes in the right order is important, and the game does not slow down enough or number the strokes. There's only a certain number of strokes to draw (before you run out of tries) and you have to figure it out how many (and which direction) through replaying the writing animation repeatedly. The game does have the full characters below the pinyin (chinese words in english characters) of the word at the top screen, but I found the letters to be too small. Other than that, the game's been great fun. It's inspired me to go deeper into learning chinese. I'm also looking forward to "My Japanese Coach" and other language games in this series.
 Good on it's own, great as a supplement! October 3, 2008
Never used any other product in the series, and to be honest I've always been a skeptic when it comes to any way of learning. Used this as a supplement to my beginner's Chinese class, and it's definitely helped me remember/learn a few things, and it's fun! Although obviously a game can't replace a classroom setting and a textbook, I could see someone using this to see if they like the language before signing up for a class, as an educational game for a worldly child, or as a way to practice that's more fun than flashcards. If all the "My [Language] Coach" games are this good, let's hope they keep building up the series! The developers probably wouldn't have gotten to Chinese so quick if it wasn't for the Olympics, even though they missed it by a few weeks.
This is amazing October 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this product based on my happiness with UbiSoft's "My French Coach." It's just as good!
Like "My French Coach," "My Chinese Coach" teaches vocabulary and pronunciation by using games and common expressions. I have really learned a lot from the program's ability to record MY voice pronouncing things. I find the little graph that shows a voice print to be incredibly instructive. You can slow down or speed up the recording to match the speed at which you record your own voice, and see exactly where you've gone wrong on the graph while comparing your voice to the teacher's.
Learning to write the script has proven more difficult than I expected, but the tool allows you to write over theirs, repeat theirs, and apply theirs over the top of your own.
Two downsides:
--There is no option in the placement test for saying you don't know, so if you inadvertently guess correctly, you can get placed several lessons in (I got placed at the 5th lesson, and I could only say "thank you," and "happy New Year" when I started). It took me a little while to figure out how to retrace my steps and get to the first lesson. There is no option to just start at the first lesson, or if there is, I didn't find it. (In "My French Coach," I tested more accurately because I knew some French.)
--The script in some of the games is very small. Because these characters are unfamiliar to me, I need them to be large and clear enough that I can learn to distinguish them.
My Chinese coach September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is fabulous. I use this game as a valuble tool at my job as a English tutor at my local community college. I see a lot of students from China and this helps me to bridge the language barrier, when I proofread their essays. Keep up the excellent work!
Nicole Roeder
Great for anyone learning chinese September 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a fluent chinese speaker but i can't write in chinese. I have taken many classes and have never really walked away with much success. This game kept me interested and excited to learn. The game has many functions. It first tests you on how much chinese you know, then places you in the right lesson to start with. You can record and compare the pronounication in the game. This game teaches you all the important charaters and grammer. Really good game. Perfect for anyone taking chinese or interested in learning the language.
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