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You guys at Rocket French seem to really love your work. Every day I encounter something cool and appreciate the thought and effort behind it. Your emails are informative and encouraging, sometimes causing me pangs of bad conscience for having been lazy. Best wishes, Frank

I have earned both my CPA and my MBA so I thought learning a foreign language wouldn't be that tough.

I found out that making progress was very challenging and that I could only take small baby steps. Then I decided to try Rocket French. As I tell my best friends, they should buy Rocket French because it is an awesome product and the software makes learning grammar and pronunciation easy.

When you click on a word or a phase you hear native speakers say the expression or word that you clicked on. For me, that is the best benefit. I have read other French text books but knowing the correct pronunciation was impossible. When you buy Rocket French you will be enabled to work at your own speed.

Like some leading products, the speaker doesn't drone on and on and on with the pronunciation of a word that you already know. With Rocket French, you decide what you want to hear and how many times you want to hear it. There are so many advantages that Rocket French has over other products including the interactive sessions. Each session is followed with a question and answer review session. That turned out to be a great awareness of how fluent I really was and how readily I could answer the questions. Also, the easy download functions enable to you listen while commuting, flying, working out at a health club, or at your computer.

With Rocket French you can expect to speak foreign language sentences within the first session!

I undertook to learn French on my own, beginning with the Pimsleur method. I found this to be of great help to me, having the type of ear that easily hears language and its nuances. However, the Pimsleur method is limited, both in its exposure to grammar and verb forms and in its exposure to vocabulary. In searching for another self-taught method to continue my learning of French, I found and purchased Rocket French.

Through listening to the Rocket French lessons, which I do from an MP3 player that broadcasts through my car radio on my way to and from work, I have found just what I needed. I am continuing to learn French on my own terms, and very effectively at that.

This is one of the best French programs I have come across and it won't break your bank to buy. It is definitely geared towards adults who seriously want to learn and understand a new language, which is a refreshing change for me over the unstructured, cartoonish language programs that seem to be everywhere.

Without Rocket French, I would not have been nearly as comfortable touring – and wine tasting - in France. As you can see from the picture, I had no trouble making myself understood! I was much more relaxed in my travels after spending a few weeks with the Rocket French course.

I tried a *Competitor* and, while it is admittedly well written, I found that the audio portion of Rocket French was absolutely essential to proper pronunciation of French words.

French is not a language that allows you to sound out the syllables. There seems to be many more letters on the page than actually reach the ears. It looks like they use a lot of unnecessary characters. The language does have rules, though, and those rules are well pointed out in this course. Learning the basic grammar early on aided in comprehension immensely. And repeatedly hearing the words, especially while reading them, helped gain an understanding of how they should sound.

The course is set up so that I could pick and choose whichever lessons most suited my needs. After the first few foundational lessons, I found that I could defer some of the topics that I would not need right away.

Learning French is fun this way!