Rocket Languages Reviews

I have just returned from my first-ever trip to China. For 6 months prior to my trip, the Rocket Chinese course helped me learn basic conversational skills that resulted in many compliments from tour guides, drivers, flight attendants, hotel personnel and other native speakers. I am inspired to continue my studies and return to China someday with a higher command of the language. Rocket Chinese offers very effective tools to achieve this.

I was somewhat reluctant to spend money on a Chinese language course as there are so many free resources available online. However, I decided to invest in Rocket Chinese so that I could follow a clear, structured course, to help me learn useful Chinese before I move to China to study later this year. I am so glad I did, as the course has been great. I love that I can download the audio lessons to practise when I have no internet access. I also like how each lesson contains not only the interactive audio, but also writing and speaking exercises, with the ability to record my speech and hear it back to compare it to the native speaker. I have already recommended Rocket Chinese to others who will be moving to study in China at the same time as myself.

Great product with a surprising amount of useful phrases worked into the dialogue. Love being able to act out a conversation. Only thing lacking would be a direct literal translation of some phrases and words in the lesson screen. But otherwise great, I listen to it all the time.

I have studying Mandarin Chinese for about four months. I started with another "highly rated" and very expensive program by a competitor. After two months I could only say hello and goodbye and a lot of phrases which I wasn't sure of their exact meaning and none of them related to any topics I wished to practice at the local Chinese restaurant (you have to look at pictures and decide what is being depicted. No English translations are anywhere in the program). Then I purchased Rocket Chinese and within two weeks, I could actually speak some meaningful Chinese...and know what I was saying...as do the Chinese that I practice with. Rocket Chinese tells you the words, pronounces them correctly for you, slows them down and then adds them to sentences, and speaks them in a dialog with another native Chinese speaker. It also shows you the written characters and the Pinyin language as you go. If you want to learn this difficult language, Rocket Chinese is my recommendation. It doesn't cost you an arm and a leg and you will be speaking basic Chinese almost immediately!!

I've been looking to learn Mandarin for a long time. I considered personal tuition, classroom setting, correspondence courses as well as learning from tapes but they all only emphasized on spoken/conversational Mandarin which is not what I wanted. I wanted to learn to write as well and AT LAST I've found it. Thanks Rocket! And what's more perfect is not only can I learn at my own pace but I can always go back to review what I've learnt to ensure I got my writing right.

I also like the tests after each lesson so I can gauge how I'm doing.

What I like best about my Rocket Chinese study is the devices that keep me very consistent in my effort. I have done at least some Chinese study for 135 days in a row. I am also very happy to have the strong support on pronunciation. I truly have come to believe that whatever success I have in another language will depend mostly on whether I sound right. One of my daughters-in-law is from China, and it is my fondest hope that someday I will have a fully bilingual grandchild.

I really like the format on the website. And I really like that it has a mobile app. However I travel a lot and the time I have most available to practice Chinese is when I am on a plane. You can download the MP3 files but I really wish the APP would allow you to cache the sections you are working on so they worked on a plane. Overall I think it is a good value. and I like the program but I just wish it was more tailored to working off line.

At first what I expected was it to turn out something alot like chinesepod 101. Fortunately it had which made it all the more easier to learn without a ridiculous intro to each lesson not only that but the website restricted access to the pdf for the mandarin characters. How desperite are they for money all the more I was still quite pleased with that website but ever so more with this one.

i really appreciate rocket Chinese i learn Chinese from ur ths pag really like fantastic grate i want learn more and more language thats really appreciate ths pag

i really appreciate rocket Chinese i learn Chinese from ur ths pag really like fantastic grate i want learn more and more language thats really appreciate ths pag

So far all of the learned vocabulary has been very relevant. The explanations are very clear and there is are a lot of practice exercises. Out of all of the online Mandarin Chinese language programs I've looked at, I think this one is the best.