Rocket Italian Reviews

I am currently using Rosetta Stone. My progress is good, but as I progress it is getting tougher to follow without instructions. I'm not sure what I am looking for. I will continue to review Rocket.

Purchased Rocket Italian Lv1 as a hobby in 2014. I really liked it back then. Since I was not serious about learning and would give up, then get back into it with a different program or book.

Now I am serious about learning Italian and took another look at RI. Turns out this was the best tool for me. Purchased all levels and TL. Appreciate how after all this time RL keeps updating their course. The play it section is Badazz.

Well done Rocket Language. Looking forward to spending a lot of time with your course.

Fun,stimulating! Exactly like I learned Spanish many years ago. Very familiar format. I can,t wait to try it out in Italy. The instructors anticipate your difficulties and they are very patient. They constantly review what you have previously learned.

For the most part, I do like the course. It is an easy and enjoyable way to learn. I am taking the Italian course.

My only MINOR COMPLAINT SO FAR is the specificity of some of the lessons. In Module 3 of the Premium Basic Course, the first 2 lessons are waaaay too narrowly focused. The first concerns a trip to Mount Vesuvius with conversation about walking around the volcano's crater and how cold it will be on the summit(!) - a dialogue I really can't imagine most ordinary travelers having much need for, and the second deals with a certain Italian liquor called Limoncello. I skipped the bulk of the conversation portion of those lessons, except for a phrase or two. The extra vocabulary sections also had some benefit.

Now I understand that sprinkling a little culture, geography, and traditional customs is an attempt to broaden the course's appeal, but I'd personally find the lessons much more useful if they conveyed more common everyday requests and conversations. For example: asking where to buy a newspaper, rent/park a car, ordering a beer/glass of wine/soda and leaving a tip, chatting about the weather or someone's family, or complimenting/discussing another's clothes, jewelry, home, etc.

Perhaps that's just me, though. However, up until those 2 lessons, I felt what I was learning had broader adaptability and usefulness.

Outstanding language course. I love the explanations of Italian culture and the conversations. I'm so pleased I have finally started learning Italian!

I love Rocket Italian. I had studied Italian on my own for a few years. I am older so I did not learn it quickly, but I had made good progress. I had used Rosetta Stone and college workbooks I had purchased online. But there were definitely things I needed help with. Rocket Italian has helped me with pronunciation, increased my vocabulary, and helped with the proper use of prepositions and certain verbs. Prepositions can be incredibly confusing. This program is filling in all the blanks I needed help with before. I love the humor. I love the explanations of word usage I hadn't gotten before in my studies.
I rated it all 5's. I don't know if I will ever want to learn another language, but if I did, I would buy Rocket Italian. Having said that, I would also use Rosetta Stone again. Rocket Italian was the perfect addition and exactly what I needed. And if I wanted to give a gift to a grandchild who is learning a language, I would buy Rocket Italian. And I would recommend it to a friend.
The price was reasonable I thought. I bought it when it was on sale. I am getting my money's worth.
I have not really used the customer service. I called once. The person was nice.

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I am really enjoying learning Italian with Rocket Languages. I look forward to my lessons and try to catch up with a lesson or two most days. We are planning a trip to Italy soon and I think my Italian language skills will be greatly improved by the time we arrive there.

Overall Rocket Italian is a pretty good system. You get exposed to the language in a variety of ways and have some explanation as to why a particular pattern exists.

It does have the problem that there is only one correct answer for each thing. This of course ignores the fact that many things can be said in slightly different ways. As an example the phrase "She is angry" technically can be said as either "Lei è arrabbiata" OR "È arrabbiata" however the only accepted answer is "È arrabbiata". In other places an answer is only accepted if it has a he/she indicator.

There are also numerous places where the English phrase refers to you plural but for some strange reason they have not realized that _every_ place they do that needs some kind of indicator that they mean you plural rather than you singular since English only has 'you'.

Overall the issues with Rocket Italian aren't that big but they make it feel more like you are memorizing lines in another language rather than learning another language. The dialogues are the worst for this as they slowly take away more of the words you are supposed to say but you have to say the phrase word for word to get it right even though there are times when you could get the same meaning across with slightly different words. (They really should package the dialogue portion so that it can be used by actors memorizing lines as that is what it does.)

I have used so many language apps and programs and Rocket is by far the best. I had been looking for something that I could simply listen to because I am often on the move and not able to interact. Learning while driving, gardening, vacuuming (lol) or even catching up on work on my computer is really convenient. That said, it still has an interactive option to utilize. The instructors are charming; the content is completely pertinent and there are even cultural tips. I am traveling to Italy in three weeks and have learned so much in the last two weeks that I feel confident I will at the very least be able to politely communicate and find my way around while there. Grazie!

Very happy with Rocket languages. I am currently taking the Spanish course but I am trying to switchover to Italian?
I am waiting to hear from customer service( I just contacted them) .....hopefully it’s doable.