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Rocket Spanish Reviews
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Rocket Spanish is predominantly an mp3 audio course aimed at building conversational proficiency and confidence. It is focused on informal, up to date language and aims to get you involved in Spanish conversations. It also includes a number of additional learning tools including pdf grammar lessons and software games to help you learn the vocabulary, improve your listening skills and learn the verb forms.
What you get
- 32 mp3 audio lessons or around 25 minutes. 12 hours of audio lessons in total.
- Transcripts of all the conversation lessons.
- 31 grammar lessons in PDF format starting at absolute beginners.
- Software games for vocab learning, audio recognition and verb training
- Members forum where you can discuss the course and practice with other users.
- MegaCards – flash cards to help you learn the most common words and phrases.
Guarantee
100% money back if not satisfied within 60 days.
Price
$99
1 Rocket Spanish Reviews
Chris
Positive Points
I find the interactive audio lesson format good fun. It is similar to the Pimsleur courses in format, I enjoyed Pimsleur as well but found it could be a bit over formal, where as Rocket teaches more informal everyday language.
Another plus over Pimsleur is that you get the pdf transcriptions of the lessons and pdf grammar lessons. The software games are a nice bonus as well, the verb training game is particularly useful I think.
Negative Points
Due to the friendly informal nature of Rocket I’d say Pimsleur is probably better if you are learning Spanish for business, but for travel or socialising Rocket is better.
Also their marketing text is a bit over the top. My progress with this was good but you will not be speaking fluently in 6 weeks or whatever the claim is – thats imposible!
The Verdict
All in all I enjoyed the course and found I progressed further than I did with the Pimsleur course, probably because of the additional grammar pdfs and learning games. When you compare the prices Rocket is very good value – or maybe Pimsleur is just particularly bad value?! Anyway, I’d recommend Rocket as a fun and pretty quick way of getting into Spanish.
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