My Word Coach, developed in collaboration with linguists, helps players improve their verbal communication and vocabulary in a fun way. Practice need never get boring 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 the data of three different players can be saved. ESRB Rated E for Everyone. 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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Really like this game. I can see it will improve my vocabulary.:
I can give this game a 2 thumbs up. It does just what it says it helps you to learn new words and what they mean and how to spell them all in a fun game setting. Sometimes it gives you the word and you chooses between two diffinitions. Others you write out the word or fill in the missing letter. I highly recommend this to all learning and Brain games fans.
Good but not Great, with some limitations:
This vocabulary builder works nicely with our computor system, and offers easy access for children wishing to build their vocabulary.
It's drawbacks were not so much technical - there are plenty of options - as audience: most young children are so attuned to video games that even this rather hyped up approach fails to live up to the heightened images and excitement generated by the entertainment universe children readily gravitate to. Not for a child who stuggles, more for one who wishes to learn... more info
A Great Educational Device:
When I turned 49 this year, I realized this was my year for self improvement. I read more, exercised more, cut back eating a lot of red meat and started to do puzzle books to increase my memory. My Cousin Jeremy spent a few weeks with me. He had a Gameboy DS. I started playing Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! and I was hooked. I broke down and bought a DS unit (see Jeremy, Its all your fault!). Jeremy gave me Brain Age 2 as a gift. But I wanted more. I was never a fast finger sort. I... more info
great:
English isn't my mother tongue, and I wanted to improve my English. I bought this game, and I really like it. My English has improved already.
