The Rocket Languages Blog

Bonjour tout le monde Firstly, a big thank you to all of the over 200 beta-testers who took part in previewing and critiquing the 2016 Edition of Rocket Languages courses. We gathered a lot of really useful information that should make the new Editi...

UPDATE! Sept 17th Thanks to everyone who registered for the beta test. This first round is now closed. Already we have had some great feedback that I am sure will really enhance the 2016 Edition! At this stage we hope to have the 2016 Edition live for e...

Bonjour tout le monde I have some great news for all! The 2016 Edition is coming soon and it's going to make you feel like you have just taken possession of a brand new sports car! Like the latest Alfa Romeo 4C, it comes with a great new look, bu...

Hi all Just a short message this week! We have just released a significant update to our Kindle app. If you have already got the app then it should have automatically updated. If not and you are a Kindle user then download the app for FREE from th...

Hola to all Last week we sent out a survey to our Rocket Spanish members asking questions about their Spanish study habits. In particular, we asked about the perceived effectiveness of the different methods that people use to learn Spanish. Basically...

Hi to all Over the last week, some of you may have noticed issues with using our voice comparison tool, Rocket Record, and the various Testing functions not working properly or at all. The issues have stemmed from a security issue with the latest v...

Bonjour tout le monde all the way from Provence, France This post has been delayed due to long haul travel with kids, jetlag and sickness. Possibly the perfect storm to ensure a rocky start to any holiday... Somewhere between Singapore and France I ...

Hola Last week's topic was how to describe your best friend, or "ton meilleur ami" in French. Thanks to everyone who submitted a description of their best friend. There were some really interesting ones in there and I am sure you found the practice use...

Bonjour tout le monde As part of our drive to make our blog more accessible and easier for everyone to comment on, we have moved it here! The old blog can still be accessed here; https://www.rocketlanguages.com/blog This new blog will be more r...

Zdrahstvuite We are pleased to announce that in the last week we have released Rocket Russian, which is our 14th language! Rocket Russian is the culmination of over 9 months of work from the Rocket Languages product development team, and is brough...

Bonjour tout le monde ! Just a quick update about a few changes we have made to your members area. Following on from the new forum design and functionality, we also changed the My profile page to a smarter and better functioning system. And just ...

Bonjour tout le monde ! We get a lot of feedback about just how much Rocket Languages has helped people achieve their language learning goals. However, we aren't the sort of company to rest on it's laurels... In fact we have been very busy working aw...

Hi all I would like to announce a new feature that some members have been asking us for. If you wish, you can now hide the romanized text from all of the lessons (of course this only applies to languages that have romanized text). This will be partic...

Bonjour tout le monde As you may know, we released the Android version of the Rocket Languages app a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately the iOS app took a little longer to develop, but it's here now! The app should automatically update for everyone wh...

Bonjour tout le monde ! Exciting news! We have completely re-imagined our Android app from the ground up. While it's a little overdue from our intended release date it is now here and available in the Google Play store. Just click here to go to the ...

Hi everyone Today we have a post brought to you by the letter R: 1. R is for Russian 2. R is for Reviews First of all, Russian. We've just started work on the newest addition to the Rocket Languages suite of languages, Rocket Russian. This ...

Salut tout le monde ! As you probably know by now, here at Rocket Languages we are all about maximizing your language learning time, so that you get the most effective learning possible in the shortest time. Certainly, the recently released Play it! ...

Bonjour tout le monde (Hello everyone) After over 6 months of development, I am excited to announce a brand new learning tool that has been added to your Rocket Languages course. You are probably already familiar with the Testing section, and the tests...

Today we released a fantastic new writing Test for Rocket Chinese and Rocket Japanese. The new test came about after acting on feedback from our users (that's you guys!) who wanted practice with writing in native script. Now with Rocket Chinese you ca...

Bonjour tout le monde ! We are pleased to announce the release of the 2014 Edition of all our Rocket Languages courses. A lot of thanks goes to the hard working Rocket team, as well as quite a few members who contributed to the cause. The major changes...

This is the final article in this series of blog posts that deal with some of the myths about online language learning. The last couple of myths that I addressed were; 1. That online courses are pretty much the same as textbooks; which is a myth e...

Bonjour tout le monde ! Time to follow on from my last post a month ago, where I talked about a common misconception (myth) about learning a language online. That myth was that online courses are pretty much just text books online. The basic argument ...

Lesson 1.1 of German Premium mentions the written matter that accompanies the course, but I can't find it. Where can I find it?

This post is a (edited) repost of a Rocket News article from a month ago. We are now posting these in the Forum so that members can more easily comment if they wish! -------------- Bonjour tout le monde! In response to feedback that we've received over t...

Hi all Usually we post all of our news and updates to Rocket News. The feedback we have received showed that many members wanted to be able to comment on the Rocket News articles, which wasn't possible within the old Rocket News. So, from now on all Ro...