Rocket Languages Reviews

So far so good. I've only been doing it for 4 days. But it seems thorough, and is more fast-moving than some other apps. Plenty of vocab and grammar. I find some of the chattiness in English in the dialogues tiresome, though, and I wonder why the American guy, Alex, is not a native speaker. Even I can tell he has an accent. Still, it seems to work pretty well.

the easy good hard buttons are kind of a hassle, maybe just being able to press the enter key or tab key if its easy. When its easy it causes an unnecessary delay.

It's an easy and fun way to get started in any new language or to review after you had a pause.

I've learned way more than with other programs. I love how much opportunity there is to practice and review AND...you can control what you are studying and reviewing. Other programs will offer you 30 words you know to get maybe one or two you didn't and still not offer some of the others you hoped to review. With Rocket Italian there is much more conversational listening and speaking offered in ways that seem to me more sensible. By sensible, I mean in ways that seem to enable it to "stick" more effectively. Lots of repetition and reinforcement. Best of all, I am actually enjoying using this program. I highly recommend Rocket Italian (and I would imagine any Rocket Language) course!

Customer service is N/A, as I didn't interact. I do have a recommendations... You should clarify the "formal" vs. "informal" use of "essere" and then label the "you" in phrases like "Di dove sei/siete/e?" accordingly. You could say, "Where are you (formal) from?" or "Where are you (plural) from?". It was confusing to answer and, more importantly, confusing to learn / understand the difference. Otherwise, great job!

The sexism is very irritating--the male character constantly sexualizes his Italian co-host.

It would be helpful to be able to fast forward/ be able to review the lessons --the ratio of chitchat to content is off. Less of Alessandro and more formal grammar explanations would be great.

Incredibly fitted to the needs of one who have a base knowledge in Italian and wants to improve his speaking skills

I'm having problems with my microphone. It's frustrating.

Loving this course has everything you need to learn on a modern platform, very well thought out-- has all the angles covered for easy, effective and fun learning.

This is a well structured, rounded and compelling language program. The balance of learning styles (auditory, spoken, written, testing) reinforce the lessons. The content is relevant for me, an English-speaking Australian, traveling to Italy for the first time in September. The pricing is value-for-money. 'Repetition' is the mother of learning and you incorporate repeated phrases throughout each successive lesson. I find I have to keep re-doing lessons to anchor the learning. Bravo! Grazie.