Rocket Spanish Review Is The Hype Justified?

by admin on July 27, 2010

My Rocket Spanish Review is to help people decide if Rocket Spanish is the best way for them to learn Spanish.

I’ll tell you EXACTLY what I liked and did not like about Rocket Spanish.

Just as a bit of brief background about me.  I decided to learn Spanish because I love Barcelona and I wanted to stop feeling like an idiot when I visited.  After a brief attempt to learn Spanish with a Tutor I realised that I was learning incredibly slowly and at the same time I was going broke… the lessons were seriously expensive.

So I decided to try an online Spanish software program.  Initially it was a bit of a disaster as I jumped in to the first program I found and basically it was poor.  After three weeks I gave up and lost my cash, complete bummer.

Because I’m stubborn (my wife may say stupid!) I decided to try again.  This time I actually did some research to find the best learn Spanish programs out there.  I got it down to two, both had excellent feedback.

How Did I Choose An Online Spanish Programme?

Easy the cheapest one which also happened to have a 60 day unconditional refund guarantee.  Before buying this course I was already over $400 down so I was not going to get burned again.

That course was Rocket Spanish.  And the result?  I can now speak conversational Spanish and even my Spanish Grammar is coming along, quite a feat considering my English Grammar is appalling!

Without boring you with all the details here is what I liked about Rocket Spanish:

  • It focused on vocabulary and language you will actually use (80% of all conversations in any language only use 1,500 common words).
  • There is a hell of a lot of lessons but they are easy to follow and most are only 25 minutes… about the maximum length of my attention span!
  • It takes you from beginner to intermediate in a logical easy to use way
  • It has audio lessons and some great interactive games to help you learn and have a bit of fun
  • As well as language lessons you get culture lessons as well which I found really cool
  • They don’t forget reading and writing in Spanish as well although they were of less interest to me at the beginning
  • You get a 60 day unconditional refund if you don’t like the product – This is fantastic, I guess this shows how confident Rocket Spanish is that you will love the product
  • It’s affordable and a one of cost unlike my never ending home tutor lessons
  • Perhaps the most important thing is that you make quick progress which motivates you.  I’ll admit I’m not great with languages but even I was speaking Spanish quite well after the third week.

Negatives about Rocket Spanish:

  • Some of the pictures in the games are a little misleading – I got some questions wrong just because of the pictures… I guess I’m too competitive!
  • I personally had no use for their massive forum, but I guess some people like hanging out and learning from other students.
  • The program suggests it will take you 8 weeks to become an intermediate Spanish speaker, this was a little ambitious for me it took me 10 weeks.  I must confess this may be to do with my lack of language skill rather than a failure on the part of Rocket Spanish.

I guess that is it for my Rocket Spanish Review, if you’re thinking of learning Spanish I would give it a go with the 60 day unconditional refund policy you really have nothing to lose!

PS If you’re a guy there is one extra unexpected benefit, my wife loves the sound of me speaking Spanish!

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