English Training Annouced for Europe

September 4, 2006, 7:35 am EDT
Total comments: 12

English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills joins the Brain Training games.

WHO SAID THAT LEARNING A LANGUAGE WASN'T FUN?

-Improve your English with the Nintendo DS-

4th September 2006 – Improve your English skills in a simple and fun way with English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills when it launches across Europe on Nintendo DS on 13th October 2006. It is perfect for anyone who hasn’t had the time, money or self-confidence to go on a course.

Following the recent success of Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain?, English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills is the latest title in Nintendo’s innovative Touch! Generations range – a selection of software that will appeal to people of all age groups, irrespective of gaming ability or experience. In addition, the title has been rated for difficulty under the TOEIC® testing system. For more than 25 years, the TOEIC test (,Test of English for International Communication™) developed by ETS, has been used by academic institutions, companies, and government agencies worldwide to measure the business English proficiency of nonnative speakers.

English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills successfully combines the innovative gaming functions of the Nintendo DS with a strong and effective educational learning tool – providing the perfect way to learn English without the hassle of attending classes. The Nintendo DS touch-screen is used to test writing skills and users are given various dictation exercises to transcribe into English using the stylus and touch-screen. After they have completed the task, the written phrase is analyzed and mistakes in spelling and grammar are then highlighted. The Nintendo DS’s voice-recognition function is also utilised when users are asked to read specific phrases aloud.

Depending on performance, users get ranked and all progress is recorded onto a progress chart through the game’s in-built calendar, allowing users to keep track of their development and see their improvement over time. Tests include English Training Competition, English Word Test Competition and Dictation Race Competition. The title also allows players to wirelessly share a demo version of English Training with other DS owners.

English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills goes on sale across Europe on 13th October 2006 at the estimated retails price of around £20.

Click onto www.nintendo-europe-media.com for all of the most up to date official information on Nintendo.

Talkback

KDR_11kSeptember 04, 2006

I could so use that to pound some english knowledge into my parents...

TJ SpykeSeptember 04, 2006

I really hope they make a "Japanese Training", I would buy that.

NephilimSeptember 04, 2006

every american should be made to buy this, so they can spell the proper way

TJ SpykeSeptember 04, 2006

What? You mean spelling words like "center" and "color" incorrectly as "centre" and "colour"? I don't know why some coutries add an extra u to some words are spell some words that end -er as -re.

NephilimSeptember 05, 2006

Impact is bigger then the dozen common words, asia also spell like american's thanks to media agreements and such
imagine if china pushed for everyone to learn english, we would have billions of bad spelling mistakes every day, just because a country wanted to get away from the brittish way

Ian SaneSeptember 05, 2006

I love how the press release requires the reader to be able to read English.

The only thing I ask is that everyone learn the difference between "lose" and "loose". "Lose" is to not win. "Loose" is to not be tight. Aside from being spelled differently they are also PRONOUNCED differently which makes it especially irritating for me to read stuff like "I hope I don't loose at this game" because I can't help but pronounce the word correctly in my head and thus read total gobbley gook at first glance. At least "there", "their", and "they're" sound pretty much the same so improper use can still be read correctly at first glance.

GoldenPhoenixSeptember 05, 2006

Hopefully Nintendo distributes demo copies throughout the gamefaq's message boards.

KDR_11kSeptember 05, 2006

Ian: They usually make those press releases in various languages, obviously PGC will use the English one.

UltimatePartyBearSeptember 05, 2006

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Originally posted by: DeadlyD
Impact is bigger then the dozen common words, asia also spell like american's thanks to media agreements and such
imagine if china pushed for everyone to learn english, we would have billions of bad spelling mistakes every day, just because a country wanted to get away from the brittish way

There's something fundamentally hilarious about complaints about American spelling, but they're even better when they're full of spelling and grammar mistakes.

Athrun ZalaSeptember 05, 2006

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
The only thing I ask is that everyone learn the difference between "lose" and "loose". "Lose" is to not win. "Loose" is to not be tight. Aside from being spelled differently they are also PRONOUNCED differently which makes it especially irritating for me to read stuff like "I hope I don't loose at this game" because I can't help but pronounce the word correctly in my head and thus read total gobbley gook at first glance. At least "there", "their", and "they're" sound pretty much the same so improper use can still be read correctly at first glance.

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isn't that example like, the other way around?