We know: Learning German online is a challenge. You try out one new app after another, but you never stick with it – because it doesn’t work.
Countless online German courses and apps promise to help you "learn German fast." But they don’t seem to teach you how the German language truly works.
This is where Rocket German comes in:
Whether you’re brand new to German or whether you’ve been studying it for years, we’ve got the best German learning software for you! Learn how to actually speak German confidently, understand native speakers and fully understand the fundamental principles of the German language.
Rocket German uses effective learning techniques to teach you all aspects of German – grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and culture.
What Do You Get With Rocket German?
Rocket German takes you from total newbie to speaking proficient German. You'll be conversing with German speakers in no time. Rocket German works on all angles of language acquisition: Perfect your accent, your listening skills, and your retention of what you learn.
Interactive Audio Lessons
The easiest way for you to get started and learn the most useful building-blocks of German. Perfect for learning during your commute. You'll be amazed how much you learn in these 20 minute lessons!
Language & Culture Lessons
Discover the finer points of German grammar and culture and increase your fluency quickly and easily. You will be able to understand how German really works.
Perfect your pronunciation
Make sure German speakers can understand you! Our state-of-the-art voice recognition system lets you practice matching your pronunciation to thousands of German words and phrases.
Flash cards
Strengthen your skills, train your brain, and have a little fun! Thousands of German words and phrases included.
Reinforcement activities
Ensure that you really, truly know the material, and train yourself with real-world German conversations that you will actually use.
Free mobile app
Download the Rocket Languages Android or iOS app, sync your progress across all your devices, and learn German on the go!
Track your progress
Easily see how far you've come, and keep track of lessons that need a little more work. See if you can top the leaderboard!
Members Q&A forum
Chat with other German students and Rocket Languages staff inside our friendly forum. Get the answers to your German language questions.
Lifetime access
Your free trial gives you 24/7 lifetime access to selected lessons (over 4 hours worth) from the full Rocket German course.
Why Rocket German works...
It is our vision to provide the most effective online German course available. This vision drives us to constantly improve Rocket German with the latest and most successful language learning methods and technology, to teach you all the skills you need to know: Listening, writing and speaking.
Try some out for yourself:
1) Perfect Your German Pronunciation with Rocket Record
Jumpstart your online German learning with this crucial tool, which will help you sound like a native German speaker! Let's find out how Rocket Record, the pronunciation tool from Rocket German, can help you achieve this! (Note that for true voice recognition you will need to use the Chrome browser.)
Try it here with this basic German conversation:
Rocket Record allows you to listen to the way native speakers say hundreds of German words and phrases.
It is a fantastic way to learn German by increasing the amount of German vocabulary you know, while massively improving your German pronunciation and accent at the same time. Rocket Record will boost your confidence when speaking German!
You’ll find more tips for mastering pronunciation in our article "How to Improve Your Foreign Language Pronunciation".
2) Make It Stick with Our Reinforcement Tools
Virtually all of our online German lessons feature a testing section at the bottom of the lesson, where you can reinforce what you’ve learned.
You can use three different Reinforcement Tools:
- Hear It! Say It!
- Write It!
- Know It!
They are all scientifically designed to enhance your recall and understanding of spoken German.
1. Hear It! Say It!
This trains your listening skills.
Training your ear for German is one of the things that German learners find the hardest to master. That’s why we came up with Hear It Say It
Here’s how Hear It! Say It! works:
A randomly selected audio track from within each lesson is played. After listening to the track, you’re prompted to record yourself saying the word. Then compare your recording to the German speaker’s and rate how well you understand what the speaker was saying. This is a very powerful tool to tune your ear to spoken German!
Have a go with Hear It! Say It! here:
Hear It! Say It!
For more listening perfection check out our article "Tips for Improving Listening Skills".
2. Write It!
This trains your writing skills.
It's one thing to pronounce German words correctly – it's quite another to turn those sounds into written words.
Write It! is the self-testing tool that shows you how well developed your German ear really is. It also gets you used to the German sentence structure. Just listen to the native speaker saying a word or phrase, then try to write it correctly in the space provided.
When you're done, click "reveal" to see how well you did and receive a rating for that word or phrase.
Test your writing skills with Write It! here:
Write It!
3. Know It!
This trains your speaking skills.
Now, all the training in the world won’t help you if someone is talking to you in German and your mind freezes when it’s your turn to speak! That’s why we developed Know It!, the self-testing tool that really puts you on the spot!
Know It! randomly selects English words and phrases from each lesson and prompts you to record yourself saying the German translation, compare yourself to the German speaker, and then rate how well you did!
For a real challenge, try out Know It!:
Know It!
3) Interactive Audio Lessons
Each level of Rocket German features over 30 Interactive Audio Lessons as a major component. These audio tracks average 25 minutes in length and are designed for you to use at the gym, during your commute, or in any spare time that you have.
Hold on – this is no time to kick back and just listen. The Rocket German host, Paul, will prompt you to speak, because speaking still is the most important part of learning a language!
You can listen to the first Interactive Audio Lesson from Rocket German here (if you like it and want to listen to the full track, sign up for our free trial!)
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Learn German Online Today?
When you're ready to take your German learning to the next level, Rocket German has the right course for you. It’s simple yet effective – and most importantly, it works!
You can get a free, lifetime, no-obligation trial of Rocket German here and check out sample lessons from the full course.