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Following the verbiage on the conversation pieces is great When repeating the words given in vocabulary, the words are spoken way too fast and it is hard to understand or to keep up with it. My recommendation would be to speak those words slower so the non-native speaker can follow easily regardless of age or where are you from. Also, the flashcards need sound for it.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Valerie, thank you for your review. We're glad that you are enjoying the conversation aspects of the course, we will pass your feedback concerning the speed on to the development team. Regarding the flashcards, you can turn on audio for these by clicking on the setting gear in the activity and then selecting "Play audio on reveal." All the best!
今のレクチャーは 私にとっていい勉強になります。できるだけ最後まで頑張りたいと思っています。ありがとうございます。
Great so far but, too soon to really give a review. learning a few words here and there but no repetition or context make it so it's only vocabulary lessons.
Response from Rocket Languages
We're glad to hear that you are enjoying the course so far. You can repeat the vocabulary in the lessons with the Reinforcement Activities which you can find at the bottom of each lesson. All the best for your Japanese!
Some of the settings and order are fine and I am learning relatively quickly. The problem is there are some errors with the sound files or miss spellings that are frustrating and some of the longer phrases earlier on are added to vocabulary but they are never broken down or explained so it is very hard to learn them.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Adam, we are sorry to hear that you are experiencing some difficulties with the course. We have sent you an email to follow up with you on this.
Non va bene avere istruzioni in inglese invece d' italiano. Anche, questo è un sito per imparare bene l'italiano e si usa una persona, Charlie, che non ha per niente una pronuncia buona in italiano. Ridicolo!
You aren't hearing me on about 30% of the words. Maybe it would be better with a headset - I am just using a laptop with the built in mic. But I've tried many times with my mouth in many different positions and different proximities to the mic - it should be able to hear me just fine.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Ryan, we are sorry to hear that you are having issues with the voice recognition. We have sent you an email to get more information about this.
A good learning tool.
I'm not happy with the audio it's not working 100%. On average each lesson has 5% faulty audio.
I have complained but the advice is not working, because the fault is in the app it's selves.
The only thing I can do is ignore the gaps and hope.....
Response from Rocket Languages
We are sorry to hear that you are experiencing these issues. We have emailed you requesting more information so that we can try and help you.
Too much vocab to memorize, practice not good enough
Response from Rocket Languages
We are sorry to hear that you are overwhelmed with the vocabulary. We have sent you an email with some tips to overcome this. All the best!
1. You could give more practice with the words, before passing to the flashcards.
2. More activities can be introduced, such as putting in the missing words in the sentences, and others like those. Currently, the major way of learning is merely the typical drills. It is too much technical, which is good if it is something additional, but without the greater variety of the exercised it is too inhuman, and somewhat boring. I am also comparing it with the Babbel, and they have some adaptions to the humans, when the dialog is going on, and one has to add the missing words. So, more human like activities would be useful.
Cannot say anything about the customer service, because did not use it yet.
Response from Rocket Languages
Thank you for your review and for these feature requests. We have passed this feedback on to the Rocket German team for them to have a look at.
Overall, I think the Rocket French folks have developed a pretty good system to learn French, so I won't go into detail about the things that I like. The big downside, however, is how their system tracks how far you've progressed in each module. For example, I just finished module 3.9, and the icons have changed from no color to the following colors and comments:
FLASHCARDS = ORANGE (GOOD)
HEAR-IT = ORANGE (GOOD)
WRITE-IT = ORANGE (GOOD)
KNOW-IT = ORANGE (GOOD)
QUIZ = GREEN (EASY)
That is not sufficient. What I want (and need) to know is how often I have reviewed each module and how I have done each time. So I have created an offline spreadsheet that shows the following for each section that I have studied. For example here is how I have tracked section 3.4 that I have reviewed several times and self-graded:
11/8/22 = D, 11/9/22 = C, 11/20/22 = C, 11/23/22 = B
You can see that first studied this module on 11/8/22, and then reviewed is subsequently three times, and my self-grade has improved from the initial D to a B. And, instead of a self-grade, I would much prefer to see the percentage of answers I got right.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Dan, thank you for your review and for this feature request. We have passed this request on to the Development team for their consideration. We hope you continue to enjoy learning with Rocket French!