Firstly Rocket Spanish is the cheapest online Spanish language product that I know of. However, this does not mean anything with regards to it’s quality. Rocket Spanish certainly over-delivers in that respect.

I have personally used Rosetta Stone, the Spanish language software before, but it cost 4 times as much as Rocket Spanish. Rosetta Stone is good, but it is really for more experienced speakers of the language who want to further their education. Rocket Spanish, for a much lower price, will allow you to build the fundamentals of the Spanish language without burning a hole in your pocket. It also does away with the fluff that is not beginner-friendly.

Another course is the Pimsleur course, which came out a long time ago. This is mainly an audio course that consists of 100 lessons, each of which is 20 minutes long. However it’s price is extremely high (almost 9 times the cost of Rocket Spanish). I would not say it is worth that much, but it is certainly a comprehensive course.

The bottom line is that if you are just a beginner rocket Spanish will be the best solution for you. If you have more experience and money then maybe the other courses will be a better solution.
However, the rocket Spanish course is the most affordable option in my opinion and you can also get about 25% for the rocket Spanish course here:

http://www.dbdiscounts.com/rocketspanish.html

Hope it helps, good luck with your Spanish!
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When you download it, you can burn CDs, and I made about 14 CDs out of my downloads, but theirs may be less dense than mine.

Rocket Japanese, and presumably Rocket everything, is pretty much a tourist’s language guide. They don’t explain the grammar all that well, and they teach you to ask and understand the kinds of things tourists want to know. In fact, in Rocket Japanese, at least a good bit of the way through, they don’t even explain all the words in the sentence. My guess is they don’t want to scare away the average listener with too much grammar. But the problem was, I didn’t learn enough Japanese.

I’m not saying it’s a bad program, but you’re not going to learn to speak the language with it alone. I can’t imagine it’s much different with Spanish.

What I strongly recommend is to use it in conjunction with other learning methods. Watch Spanish-language TV; get some books, find a Spanish speaker. The more different methods you use simultaneously the more immersion you achieve and the better and more quickly you’re going to learn.

I am using all of the methods I just mentioned (except that I don’t have Japanese TV available), plus I have Rosetta Stone, which really forms the center of my learning program. I’d be WAY behind where I am now if I didn’t have Rosetta Stone.

It may be 5 times more expensive but I’m learning a lot more than 5 times as much. The problem of course is that it’s out of the price range of some people.

So to answer your question, Rocket helps — it’s a good program for what it does — but you’re not going to become a Spanish language speaker with 20 CDs.
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