Rocket Languages Reviews

Rocket (Spanish) is, I believe, a great language learning program. I say “I believe” because I have been using it a short time and have not successfully learned a Spanish, yet.

Pros:
I chose Rocket over courses from other companies because the trial demonstrated that it is more thorough.
It also seemed to focus on Mexican Spanish instead of European. Since I live in California, this is important to me.
The instructors are very clear and entertaining. Pro reviews say they are a bit cheesy but I do not think so.
A clean user interface that works well on my iOS devices. It is not as pretty as, say, Memrise or Duolingo, but it is well structured.
For my learning styles I feel the audio lesson, followed by an activity, flash cards, reading, writing and quiz is more thorough than any others have to offer.
Lessons are downloadable on my iOS devices, but...

Cons
...i stay in a hotel with poor wifi and although I download the lessons at home, for some reason my iPad (wifi only) will sit there and spin like its trying to stream the lesson, even though i had previously downloaded it, and this prevents me from even using the lesson at all when it does this
VERY EXPENSIVE. I paid almost $300 for the program for all levels lifetime.

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I have only had it one day and love it already. I'm looking forward to my journey.

I find Alessando’s dumbing down side comments unnecessary and interrupts concentration. Childish, tedious and unprofessional. Thank you.

Overall this is great as it focus on speaking which is my favourite part of language learning.
The problematic part for me currently is not being able to just download the French audio conversations only.
I do not wish to go through the English parts of the lesson and will really prefer a French only audio to help improve on my listening skills as well.

The audio is there but the download button isn't for the French only parts.

I have started the second lesson in RS 3, La Pinata, and have become frustrated and discouraged. The Conversation part is OK even though I am getting tired with Mauricio, but the Extra Vocabulary which has no context as in the Conversation introduces too many new phrases and vocabulary many of which are not even related to the Conversation (79 in this part!). Instructionally fewer new words/phrases with a reasonable amount of repitition would be much better. In RS parts 1 and 2 it seems that the New Vocabulary was generally shorter and more related to the Conversation. In short, I am very disappointed! I star for every rating is even too generous.

You know, I've been studying italian with rocket italian for just 30min aprox. And I love it! It's awesome. Well done.

Man this has been a God sent. Thank you guys. I could not ask for a better program.

I like the format of the course but am disappointed that the presenter with an English accent has been replaced with one with an American accent. Also I have spotted a few mistakes with the words spoken by the tutor compared to that written on screen.

And in the latest version the "Play it" elements of the lessons won't work on my computer whereas previously I had no problem with them.

Excellent course . Well designed and helpful to advance your Spanish. I find very useful the feedback, to listen to your pronunciation which sometimes does not work. Also great is the questioning at the end which makes you think and tell you how bad is your memory getting to be. All in all enjoyed the courses.

Because of the excellent price I brought the Spanish course, the language I am learning and also the Italian course, a language I have always wanted to speak. To hear myself speak these languages and get a good mark at my pronunciation is awesome! Thank you.
Tomorrow my friend is coming and I am going to introduce her to the two languages and we can practice together.