Primed to straddle the thundering wagon of success ridden by Prof. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain, Nintendo has revealed that the equally long-winded English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills is set to hit DS in Europe on October 13.
As the name implies, English Training, part of the Touch! Generations range, is designed to improve your skills in the fine art of writing proper. Using the DS touch-screen, users are presented with dictation exercises and must successfully transcribe the spoken phrases with the stylus. Once a task is complete, the game cunningly analyses the inputted text and highlights spelling and grammar errors. English Training also makes use of the DS mic, using voice recognition to assess spoken phrases. Hopefully, we'll have none of that "BLUE!" malarky this time around, eh?
With tests divided into English Training Competition, English Word Test Competition and Dictation Race Competition, English Training uses a similar calender system to Brain Training, ranking perfomance so you can see how your skills are developing over time.
English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills will dot your i's and cross your t's from October 13 in the UK, for the not unreasonable sum of twenty shiny English pounds.