My Japanese Coach - Game Review

I have recently been playing My Japanese Coach on the Nintendo DS. Seeing as I already knew some Japanese [as with any language you can never say you know most or a lot of it] I was expecting it to be boring and easy in the beginning. I found myself quite interested when I saw that they test you in order to see what level you should be on. I myself was started on a farther in level.

I also liked the feature that aloud you to go back and learn or review past lessons. All in all the game was mostly good. I will post the goods and bads of the beginning of the game now and add on the rest later because it's late and I am rather tired.

Good

*Tests you to see what level you are on
*Is interactive
*Hands on learning, even if through a hand held game system
*Helpful in the sense of seeing how the words are written and hearing how they are meant to sound.
*Games are interactive and fun, but not too easy

Bad

*Even if you know some words, if you skip lessons you might be skipping important words.
*Is easy to put down and doesn't make you want to focus on it for a long while
*Gives no real life simulations that would be needed to help motivate you to learn and remember
*It can be hard to understand the recording and can seem overwhelming to some

Now I will give a list of the first lessons words just so everyone knows what i'm talking about.

Lesson One:

Good - ii - いい
Bad - dame - だめ
Yes - hai - はい
No - iie - いいえ
Hello - konnichiwa - こんいちわ

Goodbye - sayounara -　さようなら
This - kore - これ
That - sore - それ
Thank you - arigatou - ありがとう
I (formal) - watashi - わたし

I hope you all liked my first game review for My Japanese Coach! I had fun talking about it and will put up another one later on. That one will have more information about the whole game in it for you all!

So this has been Angela N. Tharp [or Anjeru in Japanese] and I hope everyone wants to learn Japanese now!

さようなら！