Rocket Languages Reviews

I am learning Rocket French and i do enjoy listening to the audio lessons in the car.. My only criticism is that i wish there were more audio lessons. Also the quiz section for the language and culture lessons are frustrating, it only tests you on the words/sentences that are listed and maybe should be testing more on the actual theory behind the subject. Also some of the audio lessons are surprisingly sexist? maybe due for an update to bring into 2018 Rocket??!

This is working out great for me. I took Italian in college over 30 years ago, so I've forgotten almost everything, but it's all coming right back to me. The interactive audio is good practice, and I like the themed lessons. They sneak in the grammar rules, so it doesn't get boring.

I am enjoying the audio lessons and I particularly like the additional explanations on grammar points and the way they ask you to apply the learning in different ways. It would be great if this learning approach was also applied to the revision exercises, which do a good job of consolidating the phrases in the audio lesson (even if it is a little too repetitive) but don't stretch you to apply the underlying grammar principles to new situations. It would also be good if the revision sometimes threw in words and phrases from earlier lessons as a way of consolidating what you have learned before. I also find the voice recognition very difficult to use. It very often doesn't pick up on what I'm saying.

I have owned Rocket French for several years, but have not had the time to devote to it. I find that it quite comprehensive, so far, for conversational French. I also to Duolingo and really like it to set me straight on French grammar. One gets a lot of practice there, especially if one makes many mistakes, as I do. Also one can review to one's hears's continent. I don't know if one can actually learn conversational French with Duolingo, but it does give one the basics to experiment with French speakers or others learning the language.
However, I think that (I haven't actually tried it) one will learn conversational French more quickly with Rocket French. I cannot vouch for any other method.
I have had two semesters of French at a university. I also value that experience very highly.

So far (I am only on Lesson 1.3) the experience is good. The conversation is applicable to everyday life - and I am looking forward to using these phrases, as they stick in my head and on my tongue, next week on a business trip to Paris. I need to keep practicing saying the phrases, and comparing my pronunciation and word rhythm with the recordings.

Dialogues are amazing, done by professionals, lessons are clear and easy to follow. I have tried other courses but this is the best! It's very interactive, you can check your pronunciation using microphone, I find this useful to memorize words and expressions better.
Happy learning!

I've been doing the Rocket French course for about a month and it's really helping me out so far. I cannot compose complex sentences yet, but I can comprehend parts of french songs texts and I feel I'm really learning the language.
Because I'm a native portuguese and fluent english speaker, many parts of the language are familiar to me (gender, pronouns and some nouns in case of portuguese, and many nouns in case of english) which seems to help my learning process.
I'm doing benchmarks on the end of each module to track my evolution and during each module I review the previous day lesson to fix it on my mind. The interesting part of it is that I can easely remember the phrases of that lesson and the hard ones become much easier (specially in a pronounce aspect).
I'd like to have a simpler way of adding words to flashcards (as easy as adding them to My Vocab) and to have lessons with no more than 40 words each (i.e a Rocket Reinforcenment of 60 words has 80 more exercises than one with 40 words), for it's harder to learn all of the content and it's more tiresome to complete all exercises.
Another difficulty I have is to differentiate some plural words from singular ones, like "elle" and "elles" which sound the same to me (at least when spoken alone).
Other than that, I really like the grammar lessons, for they are easy to understand and not boring at all (which is kinda surprising for me)!
Current streak also motivates me to keep the most days I can without missing a lesson.

So far so good. The reason I'm not likely to buy again is that I bought both Levels 2 and 3 of Spanish, and I don't plan to learn any other languages. I'm going thru Level 2, which is a little basic for me, but I really like the product and am learning a few things. Can't wait to get to Level 3, which will have a lot of new stuff. My only issue is with my Mac - the sound volume on my mic drops over time. It's a problem with my Mac and not the Rocket Spanish product, though, since if I restart my computer it fixes it.

I am very impressed with how easy the course is. Love the fact that they break down the conversations into sentences, where you can repeat a little at a time. Makes it easier to learn the words and how they should sound. Looking forward to being able to speak in Spanish on our next trip to Mexico

The Rocket Chinese course is comprehensive and contains a good variety of tools. There are a couple negatives though. The main one is that the male voice actor's pronunciation is not very good. That's a huge drawback when you're trying to learn to pronounce a language correctly. Offline use on Android is fairly minimal. It's painful to enter pinyin for exercises that use it, for instance you can't just enter dan1cheng2, you need to find a way to enter dānchéng. Some odd vocabulary items are introduced early, like "go dutch" or "seat belts". It would be nice to have some additional drills and reading material. Overall though, if they could replace the male voice (or he could improve his pronunciation and cadence) it would be a very good course. (I haven't used their customer service so I'm giving the benefit of the doubt with 5 stars.)