Rocket Spanish Review

Costs:

Rocket Spanish Premium is available in two formats and users can choose which is more suitable to them:
- 20-disc CD-ROM pack: $299.95 (includes FREE shipping and handling within the United States.)
- Instant Download: $99.95. (It costs less for Rocket Spanish to produce, so you get it cheaper.)

Limited-time offers available: at the time of reviewing, Rocket Spanish offered a FREE 'Rocket Spanish Survival Kit', worth $79.90, when you purchase the disc set:
- 10 Vocab Sessions with interactive audio
- Rocket Spanish MegaCards game, both beginner and advanced versions, a fun memory game to test your knowledge of words and phrases.

FREE no-obligation 6-day Spanish course worth $27.00:
- includes selected activities from the full Rocket Spanish Premium to try out the style and method of Rocket Spanish for yourself

60-day Money Back Guarantee: if you aren't satisfied with Rocket Spanish within 60 days you can get a full refund.

LIFETIME ACCESS to Rocket Spanish Learning Lounge: when you purchase either the disc set or downloadable version you get lifetime access to the Rocket Spanish Learning Lounge, with learner forums, course materials and more. Rocket Spanish recognise that learning a language is a lifetime affair!

Prices are subject to change. For the most up to date information, please refer to the actual website.

Features:

Complete course suitable for all levels from complete beginner to advanced, and for all needs, whether you want to learn Spanish for work, pleasure, travelling or reading.
Teaching by Chilean native speaker Mauricio Evlampieff, designer of Rocket Spanish, and Spanish language expert Amy Waterman.
A free presentation on the Rocket Spanish Premium website takes you through all the features of Rocket Spanish, and explains the focus of the lessons.
Focus on practical use of Spanish, not just learning common greetings and vocabulary.
Focus on encouraging students to practice speaking and engage in conversation.
Focus on learning how to navigate conversations even when you do not recognise all of the words, but through understanding the context.
32-lesson interactive audio course with a focus not just on listening but also on speaking and pronunciation. Each lesson is on average 25 minutes long; that's over 12 hours of audio lessons you can listen to over and over again.
The audio lessons cover different types of conversations you might have in different contexts - topics include travel, restaurants, events, taking a photo, descriptions of things and of people, how to express your emotions, bargaining, hobbies, chores and goals - all of which teach you how to use different grammatical constructions in common contexts.
You also get the transcripts of the audio lessons, so you can follow the conversations on paper.
The audio files are iPod and mp3 compatible, so you can listen to them anywhere.
31 illustrated grammar lessons containing over 100 hours of comprehension.
The audio and grammar lessons start at the level of complete beginner, and work up to advanced, so if you already have some knowledge of Spanish you can quickly find your level and start from where you choose.
Three great games to make learning fun and enjoyable:
- MegaVocab game to build up your Spanish vocabulary, including over 1,000 words and 20 topics, and an option to add your own new words and pictures with MegaVocab Creator
- MegaAudio game to practice your listening and speaking - put in some practice and soon you'll be watching whole films in Spanish and understanding them!
- MegaVerbs game to take the pain out of getting your head round verb tenses and grammar - make verb learning fun!
Have your own Spanish teacher virtually "on call" 24 hours a day - you can always email Mauricio Evlampieff directly, or you can post questions in the members-only forum, where teachers and fellow students are all quick to answer your questions
Rocket Spanish Learning Lounge - to which you get lifetime access - is a virtual and interactive learning environment with a personal progress tracker, interactive quizzes, additional materials, space for you to store your notes, free access to any upgrades, and the option of getting a Rocket Spanish Certification, equivalent to the A1 and A2 levels (beginner and elementary) of the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages, which are is a framework that standardizes language levels across different learning classifications.
All these features are available on both the disc version and the download version. What are the differences between the two? The download version has compressed audio, so the quality of the disc set is superior, but the compressed version still sounds great, as you can see from the samples on the website and the free 6-day try-out course. You can put the downloaded audio tracks on your iPod or mp3 to listen to anywhere, and you can play the discs on a regular CD player, even listening to them in your car on your way to work!
Try Rocket Spanish for yourself with the free 6-day try-out course, which gives you access to selected features of the first 6 audio lessons (beginner) over 6 days, delivered as a link straight to your email. You can choose to listen online or download the audio file to your computer, and you get a taste for the friendly, practical experience of learning with Rocket Spanish.
If you are a more advanced student, you can still get the free course, which will give you an idea of the style of teaching you can expect at the more advanced levels - and who knows, you might learn something you missed out on before!
Rocket Spanish Premium is part of the business Rocket Languages, which is a company accrredited by Better Business Bureau, a private, non-profit organisation devloped to monitor and report on the business practices of companies, so you can feel secure that you are buying into a renowned leader in online language courses.
Rocket Languages' first ever program was Spanish - the company was launched by two language experts who were dissatisfied with the language learning material they regularly encountered, and agreed that there ought to be a more enjoyable and more effective way to learn. The Spanish program was so successful that they quickly expanded, and now have courses in French, Arabic, German, Mandarin, Hindi, Japanese, Italian, Korean, American Sign Language, and more!
Rocket Languages currently has over 800,000 registered users of their products worldwide, testifying to their popularity and success.

Editor's Verdict:

Rocket Spanish Premium really is as complete a course as you could wish for. Its huge range of study materials ensure that not only will you never be bored, but that whatever style of learning appeals to you, you will find something useful and enjoyable. The course is suitable for any level, as the lessons start at complete beginner and work upwards, and the passion that the teachers Mauricio and Amy have for Spanish is clearly infectious. As well as enthusiasm, we are sure that you will have fun with Rocket Spanish. The lessons are all very interactive - the audio lessons get you to practice speaking, and there are three different games for practicing verb tenses, vocabulary, and speaking and listening, all of which will get you learning and thinking creatively without it feeling like you are struggling to stay awake at the back of the classroom.

Rocket Spanish is especially good for its audio-visual content, and this is clearly highly appealing to many students, as when it was launched, it was so successful that Rocket Languages then brought out a wealth of other language courses based on the same teaching method and course design. Part of the approach is based on the need to make a language course that is practical for you. The fact is that unless you can begin to feel confident in having a conversation in Spanish (even when you don't understand all of the words), you will find it difficult to progress to higher levels. Some of Rocket Spanish's competitors teach you grammar and vocabulary, and familiarise you with common conversations, but this does not encourage you to use your Spanish and make it real. Languages are like muscles - you need to use them in order to make them stronger - and that's exactly what you'll be doing in the Rocket Spanish course. Each audio lesson encourages you to speak new words and phrases aloud repeatedly, and then you learn the grammar behind the conversation, and say them again. Speaking a foreign language is a living experience! And Rocket Languages manages to breathe the same life into some of the other components of language learning, with the three interactive MegaGames. MegaVocab builds up your vocabulary, and an especially interesting feature of this game is that it comes with a MegaVocab Creator, which lets you add your own words and pictures to the 1,000 already in the database. That means that if you learn new words outside of the course, for example in conversation with a Spanish-speaking friend, or by watching a film and looking up a word in the dictionary, you can add it in to your vocab list to continue practicing! Then there is MegaAudio, an excellent complement to the audio lessons, and MegaVerbs, which get you practicing verb tense changes without having to chant senselessly like a schoolkid. And of course, the fact that the audio lessons are all iPod and mp3 compatible, and you can listen to the discs anywhere, mean that you can put in your language-learning time when it is convenient for you.

Another fantastic feature of Rocket Spanish Premium is the support you will get all the way through your Spanish-learning experience. Mauricio understands that learning a new language is a life-long affair - even once you've mastered the level you need, you will still go on finding new things to learn. Spanish is not just a way of speaking that is different but equivalent to English. No - learning a new language is actually a way in to learning about a whole new culture, its ways of thinking, its views of the world, and much more. It can open doors professionally and personally for you that you never imagined. With this in mind, Rocket Spanish is committed to offering you lifetime support with your Spanish experience. Once you have completed all the lessons (although you may well find you can come back to some of them again and again), you will still have your lifetime access to the Learning Lounge and Members' Forum. The Learning Lounge has additional materials and quizzes, and free access to upgrades, so you can always get the new features added to Rocket Spanish. The Members' Forum is frequented by lots of enthusiastic students willing to help out those at lower levels and discuss a range of topics, but also by professional Spanish teachers who are quick to answer any urgent questions you might have. The quick response of Mauricio and other collaborative teachers is a great feature of Rocket Spanish that makes the learning experience personal - it's like having a Spanish teacher "on call" 24-hours a day whom you can bombard with questions!

We really think that Rocket Spanish is very good value for money. The website points out that personal Spanish tuition can cost $30 an hour or more. Normally, the benefits of having a real-life Spanish tutor are the fact that you can ask them questions, and the real-life interaction with a native speaker, which gets you practiced at both listening and speaking with a good accent. Rocket Spanish has got both those covered - so you can save the money towards your next trip to Spain! If you're not sure, though, you can still check out the free 6-day try-out course, which gives you the first 6 audio lessons over 6 days, delivered to your email inbox, with the choice of listening to the lesson online, or downloading it. The slight downside to this free trial is that you only get access to the lesson audio file, not the other great features of Rocket Spanish. Also, the free trial starts at complete beginner level, so if you're a more experienced student you are unlikely to learn much from this free starter course. However, it will give you a taste for the teaching style of Rocket Spanish, so we don't consider these to be big enough drawbacks to detract from the first-class rating we believe that Rocket Spanish deserves!

Overall, Rocket Spanish Premium is a complete course, suitable for all levels (although the course starts from complete beginner you can always skip to the lessons at your level), with a special focus on teaching you practical use of speaking and listening, a very high quality audio-visual component, that we believe will make Spanish learning a fun, effective and fast experience, one that will have you living and breathing this beautiful language in no time!

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