Rocket Languages Reviews

I tried the intro lesson, and it wasn't enjoyable. When practicing pronunciation, I would fail to pronounce a word, but I would get 100%. I have a good microphone, but I had to yell to get half of what was said recorded. When it did show, I said 100% the playback would only have recorded 50% of what I said. I was yelling most of the time, which was really irritating. I practiced writing skills without knowing special characters, so I got most of the words wrong, although I had all the necessary letters.
I absolutely hated yelling into the microphone and then hearing a partial version of what I had yelled. So far, I hate Rocket Spanish. I completed the lessons, and if not for the fact that I had heard many of the basic words in the past, I would not have remembered most of what I learned. Thankfully, I am on a trial. Thank you, Rocket, for the trial period. I will continue the trial one more time and then give Babbel a try, trusting their money-back guarantee..

I started a month ago. I had a base knowledge from Spanish 1, 25 years ago in high school. I have wanted to learn the language and recently got a job with half of my clients from Mexico. After a month of an hour a day, I am able to take care of Spanish speaking clients with what I have built up. I really find the Rocket experience to be exceptional. Starting with the 20 minute conversation/breakdown and the audio bits of saying it back is tremendous. I am currently struggling with lesson 1.10 (which I believe is a turning point). I do believe there is a gigantic jump from everything to this particular lesson. It would be my only knock up to this point as I feel like I missed a sentence structure lesson. That being said I will keep at it. My studies have paid off thus far and can not wait to continue my journey.

I purchased full French and Spanish courses from Rocket Languages a couple of months ago. Love it! Very affordable. Excellent layout. Love those little snippets of single words and sentences which you can listen to over and over again until it really sinks in. Great variety of topics and perfectly sized lessons on grammar for easy digestion. I didn't expect that taking all the tests at the end of the lesson would help me so much in memorizing words, phrases and sentences. Especially it is very helpful with French words since what you hear and what you write is quite different. Overall, excellent courses! I will definitely buy more from Rocket Languages in the near future and recommend it to all those who want to learn foreign languages with ease.

It seems like such a great program to work on even more Spanish. I live in Mexico so I want to learn as much as I can learn! I like how organized this program is and it looks like it will work for me better than Rosetta stone.

I love Rocket Spanish. I took 4 years of Spanish in high school and several courses for medical professionals over the past many years and I can honestly say this method has been the most practical of them all! I appreciate the repetition and the various tools used to reinforce learning. It is fantastic! The “points” system keeps me motivated to practice and improve daily! I would highly recommend this course to everyone!

Rocket language is awesome because it helps you say the word or words in Spanish.

Since I started rocket languages is fun and I like it.

Summary: It is most important to start SPEAKING a language as soon as possible to get comfortable with it. I think that Rocket does a decent job getting you ready with some key phrases, pronunciation, and review, but it overloads the learner with too much new vocabulary per lesson.

Format: I really like the audio format in a nice progressive pace and it's less 'cluttered' than the popular pod101 program. The review material is very well rounded, using audio, writing practice, spanish - english and english - spanish practice, plus flashcards (english - spanish).

Overall audio quality: Try the trial to hear them speak. Decide for yourself. In my opinion, Mauricio has a good accent and Carmen speaks slowly. Amy is a dork and I get a little tired of hearing her voice. Her Spanish makes me cringe. The "repeat after me" can be very rushed and I have to pause so that I get a chance to actually repeat a phrase.

Workload: The dialogues can be quite long (some almost 45 minutes!) and the practice has WAY too much vocabulary to absorb for one lesson. I'm currently doing a lesson in Level 2 that has 117 words.

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why are there at least 60 vocab words for every single lesson. how am I supposed to do this

I did a lot of research and Rocket Languages is definitely the best fit for me. I really like how the lessons incorporate listening, speaking, and writing and have extensive practice to reinforce each lesson. I find it matches my learning style very well. Thanks for creating the program!