Customer Rating: 
Summary: Shame on You, Nintendo and Amazon!
Comment: "Only 15 to 20 minutes practice a day is all you need to become fluent..." This has got to be the most misleading, patently false bit of advertisement which I have seen on Amazon. Even if you do away with the outright language mistakes, (see review by "goldbug"), the less-than perfect language teaching method you could NEVER attain fluency in a foreign language by playing a game for 20 minutes a day!
EVEN IF "My Spanish Coach" were perfect in every way--fix all the language errors and reduce or eliminate the use of "translating" to teach foreign language--the most you could expect would be a beginning understanding of some aspects of the language. I don't doubt that this would help you with your beginning Spanish courses in high school or college, but, don't expect to be able to speak, read or understand the Spanish language "fluently". Fluency requires a lot more work, and TIME, mostly: time spent studying, of course, but also time spent in the classroom speaking ONLY Spanish--at least five days a week, and, most importantly, immersion time with native speakers--at least one semester hearing and speaking only Spanish.
I am a college-level instructor of German, and I have worked several years with freshmen learning German for the first time. I speak German fluently. I had studied two years in college and then spent over a year in Germany in order to get to this point. There is no way around it. I've taken some college Spanish here recently, but I know that if you plunked me down in Mexico, I wouldn't be able to speak and understand fluently for a few weeks, at best.
"Goldbug", a reviewer who has studied Spanish for several years has found many frank errors in MSC: mistranslations of words, mispronunciations, lacking conjugations of irregular verbs, lacking gender of nouns, among others. This is inexcusable. On the question of gender: most students underestimate the importance of learning the gender of nouns because we are so used to calling objects "it". Spanish nouns have TWO genders--he or she. (German has three) It is absolutely imperative than the student learn the gender along with the noun. Nothing sets off the "Gringo" alarm so much as gender.
On the issue of teaching: in order to learn a language, let alone become fluent in it, you MUST learn to THINK in the language. Translating from English to the target language is not a way to learn this. There ARE ways to teach even beginners by using only the new language. Using pictures is one way. A good language teacher or program uses these types of methods.
MSC got lots of 5-star reviews, so lots of people liked it, but it's not fair to lead them to believe that they are getting something that they are not!!!
