Rocket Languages Reviews

This program is broken up well and the lessons are well structured. Between speaking, writing, and the flash cards my memorization has been dramatically better than I expected it would be. I'm only a couple modules deep but I'm looking forward to continuing. The best advice I can give is: You get out of it what you put in. I myself have taken the vocabulary that I've learned from the modules and formed my own sentences and that application helps tremendously in conjunction with the lessons.

I like the format and emphasis on spoken language in the Rocket languages online courses. However, I was disappointed in Rocket Spanish because it is totally geared towards younger travellers going to South America, whereas I am an older person spending a few weeks in Spain. There was very little clear advice as to differences in pronunciation, grammar or vocabulary for the language as spoken in Spain - just occasional references. There were no systematic examples of polite conversation with an older person such as a hostess or landlady. I spent a lot of time trying to work out the polite forms of the questions and answers for the ones included in the lessons but had no way of checking whether my attempts were correct. There was no list of days of the week or months of the year which I got from a dictionary but it would have been good to have them included in more of the conversations - they're pretty basic.

Rocket Languages is engaging because of it's unique approach. It makes learning a language downright fun. Play it is my favorite feature of the course. The amount of content means you'll be busy for AWHILE, which indeed is a good thing. I have no regrets on this purchase. This is what Rosetta Stone and Instant Immersion should have been. Enough is said.

I like the idea of the course, but I find it too cumbersome to use on a regular basis. Firstly, I practice at home in the evenings and it is disruptive for me to be speaking aloud continuously. Half the time this feature does not work for me, likely because I have slow internet. It also absolutely cannot understand me when I say the word "enchilada" even though I am 99% sure I am pronouncing it correctly. Secondly, the rating system is really annoying and I do not understand it at all. I would like to be able to run through lessons without having to click on a rating (I also have yet to figure out what "so so" and "good" mean). Clicking a rating after every single answer makes me take my hand off of the keyboard to reach the mouse to click, when it would be much quicker and simpler to be able to just hit 'enter' to go to the next phrase or word. This is especially annoying during the typing practice, which also requires the use of a virtual keyboard to type special characters. There should be keyboard shortcuts for these, it takes an inordinate amount of time to find the characters and select the right one for very short words.

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No customer service line, no prompt response to messages. Write it section should be expanded. No mention of punctuation or how to apply such. Useless, in my view, without more help. Pimsleur does a better job of making reviewing a lesson(s) possible. I gave high marks on the satisfaction score because I like the way several parts of the module are taught, better than Pimsleur, I think. Price was also great. I think Pimsleur is too expensive, but their customer service is much, much better than Rocket.

I was born and raised in Deming, NM. My Mother is full blooded Hispanic as well as one of my sisters , but my Dad is Norwegian, but I was brought up bilingual with my two sisters and had to use it in my work. I worked in a hospital and a doctors office. I greatly miss the NM weather, but love the southern comfort. I'm proud to be bilingual!

Something awesome that I like about Rocket Languages is that there are grammar in the lessons that I can understand, the audio lessons are great for listening and speaking.Also, the Google Speech AI is great but I don't like the price to get access to all of the lessons because some of the lessons are locked.

I have tried different app trials and courses. I am actually learning Spanish for the first time successfully. Purchasing it was a no brainer for me!

Very good course I started about last year and I have really liked it so far I recommend it!!!

I put off buying Rocket Spanish for a long time, mostly due to all the Spammy type marketing I saw online. However, after purchasing a few others, and still finding myself lacking, I decided to give it a try. I am glad I did. It is a very thorough, useful tool to learn actual conversational Spanish. The type of Spanish that is useful in actually talking to people. I highly recommend it.