Rocket Languages Reviews

The good about this program is it is very very targeted towards your listening and speaking. And you will notice your vocabulary and ease of vocal communication improving daily if you put the time in.

The bad news is you need an iron will to push yourself through it because it is SO BORING you'll seriously have a hard time staying awake.

If you can deal with listening, repeating out loud, listening, repeating out loud over and over and over and over again you will learn spanish from this course.

Only 1/2 of the lessons are audio lessons. the lessons that go more deeply into the grammar are all reading and self taught essentially which is VERY disappointing and certainly takes away from the overall value of the course.

So essentially, you teach yourself grammar, the course gives you vocabulary and go get yourself a prescription for methamphetamines so you can stay awake to get the lessons done.

I have tried literally every learning method under the son for learning spanish, I give this course overall 3/5. Effective material, but almost unbearably boring and not worth the full price.

I've been using RocketLanguages for a few years now and prefer it over any other learning program for speech and conversation. Level 1 of RocketJapanese is superb, though the audio lessons of Levels 2 and 3 lack the same clarity and smoothness. The content of the lessons is great and I have no issue with the Japanese speakers, but the English-speaking hosts in Levels 2 and 3 have distractingly poor delivery: the pacing of their sentences is inconsistent, the editing cuts some words too early, and the speakers' intonation and emphasis is very odd, often quite unnatural. When repeating Japanese words immediately after the Japanese speakers do, the english-speaking hosts' pronunciation is so far off I sometimes wonder if the lessons were recorded without the speakers listening to each other. I still get the practice and review in Japanese that I want from the lessons, but not without difficulty listening to the hosts.

It's a great program, and I do recommend it to anyone who asks. The fact that Level 2 was updated is a good sign for the future; if the hosts of the audio lessons in Levels 2 and 3 can be re-recorded to match the rhythm and clarity of intonation that Level 1 has, it'll be top-notch.

Problems with audio capture are very annoying. Many times, I could hear myself on the playback of the recording, but there was an error saying that there was no audio. It's really hard to stay focused on the course why the speech recognition keeps upsetting me, and learning while upset is more difficult.

I think this is a very good and effective course, the only thing I would say about ti is that it can get a little wearing after a while, shortening lessons could be an idea.......anyway, good course, just needs to be shortened a little

I lived in India for four years and learned some speaking Hindi but none of the writing. Now I am finding it interesting and fun and mind-stretching to practice this written language. My teacher background is wondering how the learning for the written part of this program is set up but I am sure I will find out!

Recording function is spotty, and didn't work at all in the speaking exercise. Can someone in customer service contact me pls.

So far the pace is overwhelming. I think I would retain more if the lessons were cut in half. Half the time with half the amount of new words. I am also finding some bad issues with the voice recognition. I'm considering going to something lower paced. I don't care if it takes me longer to finish a course. I'm not retaining enough at the pace.

Comprehensive but sometimes doesn't fit my learning style. What i liked, the new role play feature, speaking and the writing practice. What I don't like , the long and often tedious practice sessions (how many times do i have to say "Hola, Amy", especially for the grammer sections which could have more helpful learning examples rather than rote learning phrases. This is especially necessary for difficult topics like object pronouns. Vocab layout is not as good as Duolingo.
The dialogues are good, well explained and generally relevant. Overall its not bad but thinking of switching to an AI style of learning.

As most people say the speech recognition, whether if I use a wired microphone, airpods or powerbeats, Rocket does not work consistently when speaking. My girlfriend got so frustrated that she went back to Duolingo. I am using chrome and it is up to date. Rocket is good but if you cannot practice speech then it is subpar. This problem is common in the the comments so why can't it be rectified???

I think the course is very good - I am learning quite a lot of things I hadn't understood previously. My only criticism is that in the 'flashcards' and the 'speaking' revision it never specifies whether to use the formal or informal forms for 'you' or 'we' (tu or vous and nous or on). I find this quite frustrating as I'm sure others do, it's hard enough learning a language without the negative effect of using the wrong form when answering the revision questions. It would be quite simple to signify which form to use: if you are to use the formal form just put an 'f' in brackets before or after the phrase, and then if there wasn't an 'f' people would then know to use the informal form.