My Spanish Coach is not your typical Playstation Portable game. In fact, it is far from it. As the name suggests, this title is meant to teach you Spanish. When you turn on the game for the first time, you will be quizzed into getting a hang of all the basics of the language, through introductory language tests. Basically, you use the face button to pick the English equivalent to the Spanish word given.
The main part of the game, the teaching, is achieved mini games, which help you recollect and refresh what you’ve learnt through the tutorial texts, which basically tell you what to use where and when. The mini games are also where your progress is recorded, and you know how good you’re getting at Spanish.
This of course involves a lot of brainwork, but it’s in a fun way, so it’s pretty acceptable. The basic idea of the mini games is to see how much you’ve mastered each word in the lesson individually and give you experience accordingly. My Spanish Coach PSP initially keeps the games to only the words from that particular lesson, unless you want to make things harder and include everything you’ve learnt till that point. You can keep trying and retrying tests till you’ve collected enough experience and mastered all 10 words in the mini game to move on to the next lesson.
The lessons are creatively placed and displayed on a map of Mexico, and you are taken along a preset rout learning things in order, such as days of the week, colours, etc.
There are many mini games you can experience in the game, ranging from simple multiple- choice questions to finding the right word in a jumble of words, to picking letters to form a word. You even have whack-a-mole type games among the eight mini games to keep you entertained. There could have been more implemented into the game, but hey, it’s the Spanish we’re worried about, right?
My Spanish Coach actually does a decent job in getting you hooked on to Spanish, and can be really useful for those who really want to learn a language, but do not have the time for professional coaching. The game gives you a lot of entertainment, and best of all, you can play it at your own pace and learn the language as you like, well, at least the basics.
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