I recently discovered a neat little "edutainment" game for studying French or Spanish on the Nintendo DS. I got the French version, so I'll talk about that one here, however, I'm sure the Spanish version is pretty similar. There's also a version for working on your English called "My Word Coach". If you already own a Nintendo DS, this is a great price tag. It seems its not readily available in brick-and-mortar stores, but can be easily ordered online. I just got a copy from amazon. Its an "edutainment" game, so there's plenty of interactive little games to keep you engaged and interested.
In fact, it can be quite addictive. I find myself often having the "Okay, just one more lesson" experience. There are 10, words and phrases. Each vocab word and phrase is fully and clearly voiced by a pleasant native speaker so you never have to worry how something is supposed to be pronounced.
This little feature is almost worth the price alone. Because the DS has a built in mic, you can play the French word, record yourself saying it and play the pre-recorded voice and your own recording at the same time to see how "off" or "on" you are. A truly invaluable feature. Especially for French which is notoriously difficult to pronounce for many.
Very easy little program to use. I haven't needed to refer to the manual once. It has 1, lessons. The game keeps track of your progress with the words you've "mastered" along with charts and graphs. Every English and French vocab word and phrase used is listed along with a handy search feature. There's even a "sketch pad" for jotting down notes with the stylus. The game uses its DS capacity quite well.
The DS is highly portable, light-weight and easy to carry and store. Perfect for studying on-the- go! Cons: -What? No articles with the nouns? For some reason, the makers of the game decided to omit the appropriate masculine, feminine and plural articles that are supposed to accompany the French nouns of course they're included in the phrases in the game, just not the single vocab words. As i said, I've set my eShop account and all and I already purchased and downloaded a few games.
They work very well and all, and if I'm not mistaken, they're saved in the SD card, right? If I removed the SD card and placed it in another console say an american console , would the games work? Would they in an European console? Thanks in advance! It's always possible to change to english if the game is from Europe. Just change your system's language to english and it should work. If you're reading this, I probably haven't slept for at least 5 hours.
Just saying. Thunderbird8 5 years ago 3. If there's no language select anywhere in the game, then the game goes off of your system language most Nintendo games do this. Some games have language specific versions though I think Layton does this in EU? However, no NA releases do this that I know of. You cannot do this. The 3DS encodes anything it saves in the Nintendo 3DS folder so that it can only be read by that particular system.
Placing the SD card in a new system minus a system transfer will just make the new system make its own space for stuff. A system transfer will transfer the data necessary to read the SD card contents to the destination 3DS. Formatting the system will erase that data and if the SD card is in the system at the time of format, the 3DS will delete all content specific to it, because it would be useless otherwise.
Thunderbird8 posted Actually yes. Games like Tomodachi life, Yokai Watch and some other eShop games had other languages available besides English depending of the language of your console. These languages were very selective tho Spanish, Portuguese and French, and makes sense the inclution of these languages having in mind countries like Canada, Brazil, all Latin America, etc.
Modric Topic Creator 5 years ago 5. Oh good to know! However, the background music is repetitive and you will probably grow tired of it quickly if you are playing the game for more than minutes at a time.
Thankfully, you can choose to lower the volume—or mute completely—the background music or any of the other sounds in the game such as menu clicks and swishes. The primary control is the touchpad, and is in actually the only control you will ever truly need. Though the buttons can be used for most menus, they cannot be used for all of the games.
The one exception where you would actually need a button is to use the reset function within the mini-games. Barring that, the touchpad will get you through everything and is what you should be using to play the game. You press a button to hear the Spanish translation of each word—this also then shows the Spanish spelling of the word, in the right column. While this is useful in learning what the Spanish word is, and how it sounds, there is also a very useful option to help you pronounce it yourself.
After progressing through the lesson, you are presented with an option to play a mini-game to practice what you have just learned. After the mini-game—or immediately, if you choose to skip the mini-game—you are then presented with a usage lesson on the vocabulary words you just learned e.
Es verde, for it is green. After the usage lesson you are again presented with the option to play a mini-game to practice your knew knowledge. Though this option is probably best used after you have viewed the lesson at least one time, it allows you to enter the games without having to review the lesson each time you want to enter the mini-games. How many mini-games are available depends entirely upon how far you have progressed through the lessons, and how many vocabulary words you have mastered.
The games have varying difficulty levels which you can select: Easy, Medium, and Hard.
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