The potential of Nintendo DS as a language learning tool is very high, in my opinion. Too bad it is only potential. In 6-7 years of existence, we haven't seen any legitimate offerings in terms of language-learning software. The closest anything has come has been UBI's My Language Coach Series. This series has been almost universally panned due to the prevalence of errors relating to translation, stroke order, and other important elements of language learning. So it doesn't even matter what language you want to learn - whether it's Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, or whatever - My Coach is riddled with errors. How they managed to screw up every single game in their line is beyond me. Does anyone have any idea if we will ever see decent language-learning DS software, or if there are any decent alternatives to UBI Soft's crap out there that I just overlooked?
[QUOTE="dustupper"]The potential of Nintendo DS as a language learning tool is very high, in my opinion. Too bad it is only potential. In 6-7 years of existence, we haven't seen any legitimate offerings in terms of language-learning software. The closest anything has come has been UBI's My Language Coach Series. This series has been almost universally panned due to the prevalence of errors relating to translation, stroke order, and other important elements of language learning. So it doesn't even matter what language you want to learn - whether it's Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, or whatever - My Coach is riddled with errors. How they managed to screw up every single game in their line is beyond me. Does anyone have any idea if we will ever see decent language-learning DS software, or if there are any decent alternatives to UBI Soft's crap out there that I just overlooked? I don't think specific softwares are necessary, it's really easy to learn english by just playing games like the FF series, that got tons of dialogues, and if you see an unknown word, just look it on the dictionary.
I don't think specific softwares are necessary, it's really easy to learn english by just playing games like the FF series, that got tons of dialogues, and if you see an unknown word, just look it on the dictionary.TheCommonGamer
ye,i think learn a language is not so hard,and interent provides such a good study platform for us.
I didn't find the language learning software on the DS very useful. Sure, it had it's good points (actually having to speak the word into the mic springs to mind) but it's just not as effective as cranking out a proper study guide and taking notes. I think this software would be better suited as a "refresher" while you sat on the bus or something.
[QUOTE="dustupper"]Can you post the name of itRod90
My Japanese Coach. It's the only one. Yeah, I kinda like using it too I don't use it by itself but more so of a complement to other things that use/do. I like that you can learn to write the Katakana and Hiragana (and the fact that you can speak the word into the mic) w/ it but at the same time I somewhat lament at the fact that they rely too much on Romanji. But I haven't gotten deep into it yet and from what I hear later on, the more you get into using, less its (Romanji) is used.
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