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I love it. Its thorough and easy to identify weaknesses, continuing to motivate my progress
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Response from Rocket Languages
We are so glad to hear that Rocket German is keeping you motivated to learn. Best of luck with the rest of the course!
1. You could give more practice with the words, before passing to the flashcards.
2. More activities can be introduced, such as putting in the missing words in the sentences, and others like those. Currently, the major way of learding is merely the typical drills. It is too much technical, which is good if it is something additional, but without the greater variety of the excercized it is too inhuman, and somewhat boring. I am also comparing it with the Babbel, and they have some adaptions to the humans, when the dialog is going on, and one has to add the missing words. So, more humanlike activities would be useful.
Cannot say anything about the customer service, because did not use it yet.
Response from Rocket Languages
Thank you for your review and for these feature requests. We have passed this feedback on to the Rocket German team for them to have a look at.
Overall, I think the Rocket French folks have developed a pretty good system to learn French, so I won't go into detail about the things that I like. The big downside, however, is how their system tracks how far you've progressed in each module. For example, I just finished module 3.9, and the icons have changed from no color to the following colors and comments:
FLASHCARDS = ORANGE (GOOD)
HEAR-IT = ORANGE (GOOD)
WRITE-IT = ORANGE (GOOD)
KNOW-IT = ORANGE (GOOD)
QUIZ = GREEN (EASY)
That is not sufficient. What I want (and need) to know is how often I have reviewed each module and how I have done each time. So I have created an offline spreadsheet that shows the following for each section that I have studied. For example here is how I have tracked section 3.4 that I have reviewed several times and self-graded:
11/8/22 = D, 11/9/22 = C, 11/20/22 = C, 11/23/22 = B
You can see that first studied this module on 11/8/22, and then reviewed is subsequently three times, and my self-grade has improved from the initial D to a B. And, instead of a self-grade, I would much prefer to see the percentage of answers I got right.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi Dan, thank you for your review and for this feature request. We have passed this request on to the Development team for their consideration. We hope you continue to enjoy learning with Rocket French!
Buggy on Ventura Safari, the most current MacOS and browser version.
Travelogue way too advanced and difficult to avoid.
Encountered user setup error that service and support quickly corrected.
So far greatly prefer Pimsleur and will likely invoke refund option.
Response from Rocket Languages
Hi David, thank you for your review and we apologize for the problems that you are having with the program. We generally recommend using Chrome as a browser as it has the more powerful technology that our voice recognition software requires. Regarding your other points, we have sent you an email about all this.
Rocket Russian is an excellent resource and method of learning this beautiful language. I highly recommend it!
Response from Rocket Languages
We are so glad to hear that you are enjoying Rocket Russian! All the best for the rest of the course.
Enjoying the course so far. Think Ive finally found something, that I will stick with. Hope I will get to fluency! :)
Response from Rocket Languages
We are happy to hear that you are enjoying Rocket Spanish. Best of luck with the rest of the course!
Rocket Spanish is the best course I've taken so far--and I've taken many. With the dialogues, pronunciation practice, vocabulary exercises, and gentle guidance, it makes for a thorough review and learning experience. I can't wait to start the next lesson! The price is really reasonable, too.
Response from Rocket Languages
It's great to hear that you are enjoying your Spanish lessons with us! We wish you the best of luck with the rest of the course.
Rocket Japanese is amazing. I love this course. The lessons are well planned out and easy to use. I like the progress that I'm making and am certain that I will be speaking conversational Japanese soon. Thank you Rocket Japanese!
Response from Rocket Languages
We are so happy to hear that you are enjoying Rocket Japanese and seeing many successes with the course! Best of luck with your Japanese.
Best learning app ive tried so far! ive used duo, pimsleur, and babbel and this is the best by far.
Response from Rocket Languages
We are so glad to hear that you are having a great time with Rocket Languages! All the best with your course.
I think that the content is really good and I have enjoyed the level 1 course that I purchased. However, the advertising seems misleading. They promise that you will reach a good conversational level after level 1. However, they do not teach you past tense or future tense. For example, it's pretty hard to have any conversation without learning how to ask "How was your weekend?" or "What did you do yesterday?" Also, after paying, $99 for Level 1, you have to pay an additional $149 for level 2, in which you do start getting into past and future tense (at least you do in the free teaser lesson). If they described the contents of each level better and had a pricing structure that made more sense, I could probably give it a five.
Rocket Spanish Level 1 is equivalent to CEFR levels A1/A2
Rocket Spanish Level 2 is equivalent to CEFR levels A2/B1
Rocket Spanish Level 3 is equivalent to CEFR levels B1/B2
We will email you with a copy of this information, and encourage you to send any questions you might have to our customer support team on [email protected]. All the best with your language learning!
Response from Rocket Languages
Thanks so much for your review and feedback. Rocket Spanish is a comprehensive course, with a lot of content to cover in order to effectively teach spoken and written Spanish. While we do cover one means of talking about the future in Level 1 (the equivalent of "going to”), more lessons on the future and the past tenses can be found in Level 2, as this fits in with the CEFR level descriptions, since you're only expected to be able to talk about past events and future plans at B1 level.