has anyone here used Rocket Spanish?
I’m thinking of ordering it. Does it really work? The download version is only $99, but is it the same as the 20 CD version?
I have Rocket Japanese. I can tell you a lot about that.
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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I have Rocket Japanese. I can tell you a lot about that.
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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