Rocket Languages Reviews

The lesson's best feature, for me, is the capability of downloading them and putting them on my mp3 player. I spend about 9 hours a week on my bicycle. I listen to these lessons while I'm riding. I repeat them, over and over again, until I am completely familiar. The lessons are well organized and pleasant. I am content with their learning style and method. Their portability makes them more valuable.

Good for picking up conversation skills. Lessons build well on each other and great focus on practicing speaking. I do wish there was a greater variety in terms of the types of exercises to complete. Also more review type exercises would be nice.

I've used several of the other "top" programs, however, Rocket Spanish is by far above and beyond any of them. Consider Rocket Languages as immersion and lessons combined...doesn't get any better.

I think conceptually, it's great. The progression of language makes a lot of sense to me and feels natural. A few critiques: it is very geared toward traveling to South America as a tourist or for work or something, so if you're learning Spanish for any other reason, this doesn't give you a lot of the vocabulary that would probably be useful. Also, though the concept is great, there are still a lot of kinks that need to be worked out so that it actually functions properly. Things are often misspelled, especially in the later lessons. If there are multiple ways to say the same thing, there is almost no indication which way they expect you to use, and you get docked if you say the one other than expected. Also, the software has a really hard time picking up what you're saying, so you can pronounce things the exact same way, and one time it's correct and the next time it's incorrect because the software just isn't good at understanding verbal language. So overall, really good product, I just wish they had spent a little more time developing it and working out the bugs before rolling it out.

I've used Rosetta Stone for Italian, but I much prefer the method employed by Rocket. I'm visiting friends in the Yucatan in a few months and I've already told them...Nada de inglés! Back to my lesson...

Awesome! So cool. Love the language teachers, and has already taught me so much.

I like how everything is "picked apart" so that it truly makes sense! Using 2 different voices is helpful, too.
The topics are useful, and start exactly where a newcomer would have to in a spanish-speaking country - greeting, giving and getting names, and ordering coffee!!

I have been using Rocket Spanish for a while now, beginning with the second level, then, when I realized it was too advanced, moving back to level 1.

Overall, it has been very helpful to me. I like practicing the conversations, and once I got my microphone to work, the voice activities were great.

However, there are a few issues. First, until just recently, you were able to flag vocabulary words as you moved through a lesson that would then be stored in your saved vocabulary. But now I can't do that. I've reported the problem and have heard nothing back.

I did not get a "deal" when I joined, so I paid full price, which was a bit high compared to other programs.

Rocket Spanish has helped me to advance my conversational skills when I felt as if I was stuck. There is depth and variety to the learning experience which has really made a difference for me.

I have been using Rocket Spanish for 4 months now and amazed at how much I am learning. I listen to the 20-30 minute lessons while on a walk and spend another 15-20 minutes working towards my daily points goal.

Rocket Spanish is fun and effective. And I get to learn at my own pace.