Customer Reviews
Good game but could have been better 
2008-05-02
I like this game and it is a lot of fun. I have been playing for a week now and I feel that I improved my vocabulary slightly. I wish that they had an option where they actually said the word, because some of the words in the game I just cant say, so it would be nice to hear it. Also, it would have been nice if they used the words in a sentence so you actually see how it is used. Overall this is a good game game but if they added those options that I mentioned, it would make this a great game.
Great game for increasing your vocabulary! 
2008-04-21
I bought this game for my adult daughter who is working on brain rehab. She struggles with word finding, so I thought this might help. She loves it and continues to play it daily. Whenever we see each other, I also play it. I really appreciate the chance for both of us to improve our vocabulary!
a helpful additive to reading comprehension 2008-04-14
I honestly can say that I normally do not allow my children to play on their Nintendo DS's during the school week but I have made an exception for this.......it helps my sons develop a greater vocabulary so that reading can be done with more ease. The fact that it is in a game format inspires the kids to play on it......whatever helps them in reading and at school is a good thing where I am concerned.
It's ok for entertainment, not a study tool 
2008-04-07
letters in the soup, tetris kind of a game does not make you learn anything. You learn techniques to score rather then expand your vocabulary. You will see what I'm saying if you played it. It's just how fast can you copy letters.
The daily sessions are too long. You should decide how long you want to play not the meter.
Some words/definations does not sound right. deathless? isn't immortal more appropriate? I never use that word before.
The defination for 'termination' was to end a pregnency. I think termination has more defination then just ending a pregnency and certainly not apporiate for an E game. And there's others but I'm just writing what's on my head.
Lastly, handwriting reconition is not too good compaired to brain age. specially have problem with E which it thinks it's a G and G might be a C.
I was going to get the spanish version too but after the experience, I don't think I'll learn a thing with these games.
Just my thoughts
Thank You
Could be so much better 
2008-03-28
It has potential, but falls way short. It needs pronunciations with the words - much like My Spanish Coach. It should also include part of speech in the definition, and at some point, should give you an example of the word being used. They need more games - some are just too tedious to do very often. It focuses more on spelling than on learning definitions. Nonetheless, both my husband and I have persisted through the game for two months and have both reached a point where our expression potential has not updated for three weeks of daily play regardless of the fact that we have reached our word quota almost every day. I hope UBI Soft will put some more time into this game and make the improvements necessary to make it both useful and fun.
Fun! 2008-06-29
Hey, for $10, I'm having a blast with this "game". It's a nice addition to my growing set of "anti-aging" video games to keep my brain in gear. I use it almost every day and every now and then a new game is unlocked. Some of them I really like. Others are a little harder to figure out at first (heck, who REALLY reads the directions?), but eventually I get it.
The Word is Deplorable 
2008-06-28
Producers of games premised on the enlightened arm of self-improvement, such as My Word Coach, are faced with baleful prospects from their work's incipience. First, they must overstep their otherwise stale chosen field with amusing sub-games to create a panorama of options to suit the players fancy at any given time: the player's willpower alone is insufficient to fund the puritan regiment. You won't find this in Word Coach, a game that specializes in eroding the willingness of even the most patient and forgiving gamers. Like other intelligence-raising games, the game begins with a paucity of sub-games to engage; in the case of Word Coach, two menial games are initially proffered: Missing Letter and Split Decision. Missing Letter takes "patented" advantage of the system's stylus, presenting the player with a word with the eponymous missing letter for him to write capitalized in the space below. Yes, that's all. Oftentimes the letter is not even one of especial difficulty, requesting the player to guess what letter is followed after -NG at the end of a word. Split Decision is an equally inane source of boredom. A poorly constructed definition is supplied on the upper screen and the answer is behind one of two opposing arrows. Sadly, there is not even a fifty-fifty chance of answering the question correctly, but a 100% one since the wrong definition is frequently egregiously inaccurate in any context. After completing either of these games the player is offered the chance to review his set of words met in each game accompanied by the same remarkably unmemorable definition.
The player is awarded with differently styled games not through his performance, but by his daily tenacity and persistence to withstand the Sisyphus labors. I could only stand to play enough to earn two others: Pasta Letters and Block Letters. As asinine as it sounds, one is to spell out a word with quickly sinking alphabet letters drowning in what appears to be a sea of expired canned tomato soup. The only way to cause them to resurface is to blow into the microphone--a task that will undoubtedly make you light-headed if not utterly swoon, for the letters disappear at an astounding rate. Block Letters is worse than vomiting up that endless bowl of tomato soup in Pasta Letters if you were hungry for more ways to dull your mind. This time, one is to spell out words from letters that fall with prodigious slowness with no way to alter the speed. Both are utterly uneventful.
Besides the uncreative and atrophied style, your "coach" has as little character and enthusiasm as the games themselves, serving absolutely no purpose. "And while were at inserting a useless role," said the producers of My Word Coach," why don't we make four others fill it and give them all stereotypical appearances and names of the ethnicity rainbow while softening our racial vision with enough political correctness to avoid angering anybody?" White man and former Breakfast Club tyrant Alastair Archibald, pant-suited feminist and iron-boxed businesswoman Veronica Munroe, afro'ed brotha from da hood brought out to inspire intercity youths Lucius King, and under-nourished, pretentious good-Brit Penny, are all at your service--and are really all the same under-developed person. They all have that same unchanging and featureless face shared by the poor fool who would attempt to raise his vocabulary for the SAT or GRE with this ponderous gourd of a game assigned with an uninspiring and tedious music score most likely written on a gas station's bathroom's used toilet paper roll by a fired construction worker and wife beater.
Don't buy this game. Read literature, write down words you don't know, look them up, and practice with them with notecards and filling in sentences.
Lots of fun...and you learn some new stuff.... 2008-05-25
i bought this game less than a week ago and it has become my favorite of the Nintendo DS "educational" games. It's just a lot of fun to play, Pasta Letters in the medium mode is my favorite(but you have to be quick or the letters sink into the soup.) Block Letters is the most frustrating, you're at the mercy of how the blocks fall.
Get the game, put away the Television remote, and enjoy learning. In my view, Ninetendo has made learning and working the brain fun, if not a bit addictive...in the good way of course...
You can learn foreign words and mistakes... 2008-05-20
I think this game is enjoyable in the early stages, but as your expression potential goes up you run into problems.
In some case, very obscure meanings of words are used for definitions, ignoring more common uses. Foreign words like 'oeuvre', or 'the rank below captain' being 'subaltern' are more common that I appreciate. In the worst cases, the definitions are not to be found in any Websters dictionary. 'Forelock' according to this game has nothing to do with hair, but is "To show respect to someone in a higher position than you in a way that seems old fashioned." I like to learn new words, and was really frustrated when I looked this one up to find out it was wrong. Now I wonder how many other 'new' words or meanings I've learned are also incorrect?
At first it was mildly annoying to have your score reduced by these deficiencies, but more and more it is becoming a fatal flaw.
If you're looking at this game for kids to have some fun while learning some new words, it might work well. But it you have a good vocabulary and are looking to challenge yourself and see just how good, you run the risk of being frustrated as I am by the poor quality of the words and definitions at anything above the early levels. I have only been using the game for a couple of weeks... it hasn't taken long for these deficiencies to drain a lot of the fun out of it.
I love this game! 2008-05-14
I am in my forties and I want to continue to learn. I have always loved words. This game really challenges me and I have learned so much in such a short time. Depending on the teacher you choose, you will have to deal with their humor, sarcasm, etc..like a real teacher. For example, I missed a couple of days and got scolded! I try to use it for at least ten minutes a day!
