How do YOU use Rocket Languages?

Hello!

As the title says, I'm wondering how you use Rocket Languages. Do you do one lesson per day or do you wait to master the lesson until moving on?

Happy language learning!

I'll bet there are many variations in reply.  I tend to re-do each lesson numerous times until I feel I am 90%+ there, and move on.  Otherwise, glaze-over occurs.  The intent is to go back to review and get the grammar and vocab into my long-term memory, but that takes frequent repetition.  I need to do that more often.

Spaced repetition is built into the progressive nature of the lessons, although personal reviews are important.

My rate of progress is probably 1.5 lessons per week, but if I progressed any faster, I wouldn't remember as much.

Bon voyage ! 

Chris

Hey Chris! Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I'm sure you're right in that there are many variations. I appreciate yours. I was like that when I did the Pimsleur course. I did about one a week or until ‘mastery’. I don't know why but I have less patience with this course, which I enjoy more. Maybe because there is so much info, I'm just eager to keep going. Happy language learning!

John

Just a quick update, John.  I calculated my lessons/week and it's 1.09 and I reckon that may be a slower rate than many on Rocket.  I also do some French videos and pods, but I'm increasingly focusing on Rocket, as it is a well-rounded programme.  

I don't know about Pimsleur, but this course tends to include a fair amount of grammar - not my favourite aspect, but necessary.

Thanks for the update. That sounds like a good approach. I'm focusing on German and Spanish and balance Rocket with a fair amount of comprehensible input. I am curious to try out Rocket French to brush up since I've gotten rusty. I assume it's just as good as German and Spanish. I'm with you on grammar, I actually enjoy it somewhat but, hot take, I also think it's necessary. 

Hey John and Chris,

I use rocketfrench a bit less frequently and using more comprehensive input and languatalk to understand the grammar quicker and to practice conversations, then with rocketfrench alone (since I am not a native english speaker). Knowing all these grammar rules is fine, but in the end, we need to get to a intuitive use of them and basically I think, that we are learning them to forget them again and don't think about them when we speak ;-) 
 

Hi Armin. Your philosophy regarding grammar is the same as mine; i.e. if it's not intuitive, my experience of other languages is that it isn't much use.  It's impossible to stand in front of someone and visualise a conjugation table whilst talking.  

My big challenge after 11 months of picking up French again is the pronunciation and comprehension.  The reading I've done so far on the subject states French is significantly more challenging than Spanish or Italian (I'm B2 in both).  I'm currently looking for resources and methodologies to improve both those aspects of French, as it's comparatively daunting, I feel.  

Hi Armin,

I'm with you on that. I do an hour of comprehensible input along with my Rocket lesson. However, I do find the grammar explanations useful as I also soak up the grammar passively with CI. Thanks for chiming in!