Spanish for Everyone (Nintendo DS, 2007)

This game has nothing redeeming about it to recommend to others. As far as a language learning tool, it is crap! I really think it would be more effective to learn Japanese using only fortune-cookie fortunes than it would be to learn Spanish using this program! Activision should be embarrassed for taking people's money in exchange for this useless program, and it is clear almost immediately that they didn't bother consulting with language and/or teaching experts. For example, of the first 3 available games to new players, 2 of them don't provide English translations for the Spanish words!?! And, it should be clear to anybody that has ever learned anything that the game "Hangman" is not an effective way to learn a new language- especially when the randomly guessed Spanish word is never translated (for example- I used most of my 9 wrong guesses to come up with "Queso" and than had to use a paper dictionary to find out that that meant "cheese")! I also have "My Spanish Coach" and have used that extensively- it increases in difficulty as you progress through it, the lessons are arranged in a logical format which builds upon previously learned material, and each mini-game really serves to help you remember and assimilate new words into your functional vocabulary. "Spanish For Everybody" is nowhere near as good as "My Spanish Coach"....in fact, it is even less useful than the pile of stuff my neighbor's dog leaves on his lawn! I would trade this cartridge in, but I would feel too bad knowing that somebody else bought this garbage...I'll probably use it to balance a wobbly table, but other than that, I see no reason to even own this useless piece of garbage!