Rocket Languages Reviews
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since i'm being asked to write a review every 2 seconds, which is interrupting my course i'll go ahead and do it now. there is way too much emphasis on speaking for such absolutely abhorent speech recognition. i already know a lot of beginner spanish as i'm living in colombia with my colombian girlfriend. even she couldn't get the voice recognition to register a word half the time.
also, there are just too many flashcards, spelling words, voice recognition parts after each story lesson. i just listened to a 20 minute audio file about how to say hello. then you continue on with flashcards and pronunciation that has absolutely nothing to do with the audio
Response from Rocket Languages
Thank you for the feedback, Lloyd! Our voice recognition is trained on native Spanish speakers, so this should not happen. But don't worry! One of our friendly customer support team has contacted you and will set you up on a call with our IT team to resolve the voice recognition issue. We appreciate your comments concerning the flashcards; we know they can be overwhelming and are currently working on a solution to retain the comprehensiveness but make them easier to digest.
The microphone speaking part of the browser is terrible. I have 3 headsets (all expensive) and also used the microphone on the laptop. For simple words like Nom, Bonjour (I am getting zero or sorry I didn't catch that). I know I am not fluent yet, but i've got those words down, but the software occasionally wont get what i say. Very annoying...
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Jas, thank you for taking the time to write a review. We are sorry to hear that you are having trouble with our voice recognition software. Our Customer Support team has reached out to you in order to help resolve this issue. We wish you all the best in your journey to learn French!
First year of German course is good, but the quality goes downs in the second year.
Also, they are spammers: does not matter how many times you hit unsubscribe, you will continue to receive the wonderful 60% discount a LOT. I do not recommend at all.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Alan, thank you for leaving a review. We appreciate your feedback. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the difficulty you faced while trying to unsubscribe from our emails. Our Customer Support team has reached out to confirm with you if we can remove your email address from our database. This ensures that you will not receive any further emails from us. The good news is that we recently released an updated version of Rocket German Level 2. You can, therefore, expect the new level 2 course to be extremely high quality and an integral stepping stone in your German language journey. We wish you the best!
The lessons are far too long. I like to finish a lesson in one sitting but they are so long, it's impossible. I groan when I see the flashcards with 70 entries. There is no sense of accomplishment. I tend to avoid starting lessons because it seems like drudgery trying to get through them and that isn't a good way to learn. So yes , I am disappointed in my purchase. I had high hopes . I had previously done the 'Spanish with Paul' lessons. They had they're shortcomings too but I felt the lessons were a better length and I stuck with them and learned a lot more.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Rick, thank you for your review. I'm sorry to hear that you are finding the lessons too long. Here at Rocket Languages we want to ensure that all our linguistic content is comprehensive and in-depth, but we are also aware that motivation and a sense of accomplishment is critical to learning. As such, your suggestion regarding the flashcards has been passed on to our Product Development team. In the meantime, you might have a better experience with our more interactive reinforcement activities like "Hear It! Say It!" All the best with your Spanish language learning!
I like Rocket Languages but, I don't like how it is set up and you don't really learn from it, it's more of a study tool for people taking a Spanish class. You should make it so that people can actually learn Spanish from this website.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Ettrick, thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I am sorry to hear that you are finding the Rocket Spanish course difficult to learn from. Ensuring that our course is user friendly is very important to us and with this in mind our Customer Support team has contact you to get a clearer idea of the issues you are experiencing. All the best!
Audio does not work, neither for initial pronunciation, nor playback. When I try to listen "session aborted" appears.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Marguerite, thank you for your review, I'm sorry to hear you are continuing to experience issues with the audio features of Rocket Languages. We have contacted you via email in order to resolve this issue. All the best!
the audio recognition needs work. Also stop asking me to review every six times i record a word.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Chris, thank you for your review. We are sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues with the voice recognition. We have contacted you via email to get more information on this. Regarding the reviews, we will pass this on to the team for them to take a look at. We wish you all the best!
Very good. Unfortunately, I can not find more time to learn Rocket Chinese
Response from Rocket Languages
We are glad that you are enjoying the course. Rocket Chinese will always be waiting for you and you can always return to continue the course at any point!
too early to feel awesome about the process. feeling overwhelmed right now.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Sandra, we're sorry to hear that you are feeling overwhelmed with the course content. We have sent you some tips via email to try and help you overcome this.
The conversations to listen, follow along with, and repeat after, are pretty good and based in some realistic contexts. They were fine. Also, some of the explanations during the text-based lessons were decent explanations. My main issues are with the review, the study flashcards, listening and repeating, typing the sentences, then repeating them with only the translation. It felt less like trying to figure out what it was, and instead more on how much I could remember of the sentence or what I could memorize, and after about 45 days it gets old feeling like the only practice after the initial flashcards is memorization of sentences. It would be good to see some variations in those sentences for the flashcards, then the listening and repeat, then typing, then saying it. They could still use the same words maybe and have the overall vibe of the lesson, but when they're all the same exact sentences in the same exact order for four reviews in a row then it isn't really working towards figuring out what to say.
Response from Rocket Languages
Thank you for your review. We have passed your suggestions about improving the reinforcement activities on to the Development team. All the best!