My Chinese Coach - Learn a New Language

My Chinese Coach is an educational language-learning game for the Nintendo DS that teaches Mandarin Chinese through interactive lessons and mini-games. Gameplay involves pronunciation practice via voice recognition using the DS microphone compared to native speakers, stylus tracing to write simplified Chinese characters, and various mini-games like flashcards, whack-a-mole for recognition, fading characters drawing, and others to build vocabulary mastery. Story follows Mei Li, a life-like virtual Chinese teacher who guides the player through lessons focused on words, phrases, and sentence structure at multiple levels. Characters include the player character and Mei Li as the main teacher. It stands out for combining fun touch-screen and microphone mechanics with progressive learning, though some reviews note fast tutorials and handwriting recognition challenges.