Rocket Italian Reviews

I am relearning Italian after many decades. I really enjoy the conversational approach to learning. It is essential and practical at the same time. The hear it, say it, and write it feature is very helpful to the learning process because it reinforces what you learned from the opening conversation at the start of the module.

It may be just because I'm early in the lessons (lesson 1 still) but there seems to be a lot of English in the audio portions and not much of me practicing Italian. Also, the dialogue is a bit "cutesy". Finally, I find the on-going transcript to be very distracting. Seeing the dialog spelled out detracts from my having to recall the Italian words and phrases. Maybe this will get better as I get deeper into the course.

Just excellent. Can't say much more other than it's really helping me progress. The best course I've taken yet.

This is a great learning experience. Great fun with enough knowledge.

I love how I am learning practical, useful phrases to help me travel and communicate with residents of smaller, local villages. I also like that I am learning to speak correctly. Way better than Duolingo. With Duolingo I was learning words in Italian like monkey and whales that unless I went to a zoo in Italy, not very useful. I highly recommend this program!

I really like the mix of exercises for each lesson. I am hoping to get to more phrases soon rather than single words. I would like to be able to do some longer quizzes. that represent a few lessons at a time. But good so far.

I love this! Finally getting the repetition needed to move things into longer-term memory.

Awesome, this has helped me regain confidence in speaking italian

I have liked the program so far but here are my main criticisms:
First, the pacing. I wouldn't say I like having 5 audio lessons consecutively and then 5 language and culture lessons in a row. I prefer to have one audio and one language and culture lesson each time. I also wish these two types of lessons were more related and interconnected. they seem so disjointed and irrelevant right now.
I also wish that there was some sort of spaced repetition feature for reviewing previously learned vocabulary and materials. Therefore I have to manually make flashcards in another program (Anki) for this which is a little cumbersome than having them readily available.
I would like to see some new features for exercising the learned vocabulary and grammar instead of just repeating the limited number of sentences in each lesson and requiring the students to form and come up with new sentences.

Over the years, I have used Rosetta Stone, Babbel and now Rocket. Rocket is what I have been using to learn Italian as I used Rosetta Stone for Spanish mainly. There are things about this I like for learning but I feel this pushes too far toward memorization and not concept or forming sentences and mental recall. I have been doing the daily lesson for 3 straight weeks. I have a good bank of vocabulary, but I am struggling forming sentences for the most part. I will see this through Level 1 for sure and most likely 2, to see how effective it is. I felt more progress at this point through Rosetta stone and their style of learning, but I did it for 6 months daily. Time will tell for Rocket but I am going to go into with my mind open and following their method.