Rocket Languages Reviews

This is a easy and simple program for anyone to learn any language at their own pace. I love it, thank you to the creator of it and to the public library for providing this awesome tool...I am very grateful...I'll be an avid speaker of Espanol rapido, uno ano (one year)...Gracias!

Just starting and already love the format, many great exercises, feel like I'm learning.

I hate it and it is a waste of time because it is super boring

I think the Rocket format is a solid tool for learning - especially for beginners. Each lesson is a conversation between two people that you study and use to learn vocabulary and grammar. I always enjoyed that the format gave me little "stories" I could grab on to as memory aids. It really gave me a great start.

As my enthusiasm waned, as it always will when learning something new and moving past the beginner phase, I found that the rocket format started to bog me down a little. Some lessons would have over 60 phrases to practice and memorize. I'd get bogged down trying to get through the homework. I felt my learning speed was slowing down as I entered Level 2 of the course, and I began to turn to other tools like "Spanish Dict (spanishdict.com)" to augment the material and speed me up.

I think the course could be improved drastically in three ways.

1) Shorten Lessons. People like to move through lessons quickly. It produces a sense of accomplishment. This means, reducing the number of phrases to be mastered in each lesson.

2) Enhance Memorization Tools. There are well known systems for reviewing words and the idea of building a deck of flashcards you can continuously review is missing from the toolkit of Rocket Spanish.

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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.

Rocket Language is helping me gain better usage of Spanish so I can connect thoughts to make sentences.
Like the write,/hear/say it segments; it allows me to focus on each so I can use language better.
Thank You.

It says to write something awesome about Rocket languages. I can't. The voice recognition is absolutely terrible. I have changed the setting from default, to "Easy" and to "Hard", and it still doesn't recognise half of what I say. I can't complete the exercises properly because it fails to recognise most speech. It marks me down. It is REALLY slowing down my progress. I have tried: emphasising words with clear enunciation, speaking louder and softer, and speaking slowly. Still most of the time, even with simple words like "soy" and "doctor" it interprets them a something completely and randomly different, even with vowel sounds that aren't in the words. The rest of the time I just get the message that it "didn't catch that". I don't have a speech impediment. So should this review really give such low grading JUST because of one thing, the speech recognition? Yes, because the speech recognition is used in about 80% of the course sections.

Rocket Spanish has been pretty awesome so far.
Though you might be frustrated at first by all the
stuff shoved in at once. You'll eventually learn to
love it.

i seem to be getting addicted to this tool. to an extent where i could comfortably spend hours at a stretch with no complain. going back to the lesson completed is again a new experience and listening to the audios do help in recapturing certain pronunciations which was missed earlier. loving every moment. don't even miss watching TV.

I took Spanish on another website and found I learned words, but not how to speak the language. On Rocket Languages, I am learning how to have real-life conversations. Fantastic learning lessons let me absorb what I need to know. I can't imagine a better way of learning.