Reviews for Rocket: Learn Languages

It's difficult to find a language learning app with solid fundamentals, relevant content, and with lessons that will fit in a busy life. Rocket Russian comes very close to being perfect. If you make the time to use the product, you will advance in your language studies. Yes the speech recognition isn't perfect, but there are enough sound bites to train your ear correctly. Plus their products go on sale often, and the license is lifetime rather than subscription, which I appreciate SO much!

(Japanese learner) I'm loving the variety of lessons compared to similar apps. I listen to the audio lesson on my drives, then practice when I have free time throughout the day. The format has made it easy to stay motivated to learn. Also, very good quality of audio and the lessons seem comprehensive so far. Overall, one of the better language learning apps! Cons- a little light on the writing/kana learning. So far, no kana drills, and much more focused on speaking/listening than reading

So far(2 days in)... the app is good.... seems a little basic, and I wish I could bring the keyboard back up when doing the writing skills, or the keyboard stayed up and the reveal button moved above the keyboard. I enjoy the text explanations, which I feel you don't get a lot of in many language apps. I like that it feels more like something you'd use for school rather than a game like dou... but I think the interface could use a little bit of tweaking. It almost feels like a mobile website.

Good content, but I am not a fan of the teaching style. Lessons are around 20-30 minutes. They teach you phrases and go over grammar. Great. Problem with it is they don't spend enough time on those phrases/vocab. They go over it once, move on to the next phrase, & by the end of the lesson I've already forgotten many of what was taught at the start. They expect you to do the lessons twice which, doesn't work for me. I prefer Pimsleur where you'll hear words/phrases randomly throughout the lesson

The pros: Native speakers. Excellent voice recognition. Conversational drills help with thinking on your feet. Every single word and phrase is useful. No useless sentences. There is cultural and grammar information, too.Flash cards and typing exercises. Pricey? Not as much as Rosetta Stone. But you learn to speak in everyday situations as the language currently sounds. I just wish the Egyptian Arabic course had more than one level...but even the 1 level is chock fulla meaty goodness!

I like it records and rates you saying phrases, cuz I'm really slow. I think it's being a little generous with my accuracy tho. I'm still on lesson one and free for now so let's see how far it let's me go & vs Duolingo that I was far on years ago but stopped. it's also glitchy in parts, sounds not playing, not recording, etc. it keeps asking me to review even tho I already did, thru their popup. 7 lessons free.

It's good thus far even though I just bought it. But, I feel the voice recognition technology is a little wonky at times. For what this course is worth you'd expect everything to run smoothly. I am not a beginner, so it will be hard to determine how effective the course truly is at teaching French from zero. It looks promising, however, and I do hope this takes my French to the next level.

Early lesson uses the exact same English translation (nice to meet you) for two different phrases. And some of the pronunciation for simple words is near impossible. I can give basic street directions in Japanese but can't say pen. Not sure if there is enough repetition to build memory. But the ability to turn of romanization is great for building familiarity with hiragana. The explanation for grammar is very helpful.

One of the best apps for learning new languages. The lessons are really well thought out and is easy to follow along while driving, cooking or even showering. The knowledge tests at the end of each lesson really help to hammer in what was covered In the session. Currently using for both Japanese and German and I'm loving the progress I'm making so far. It is pretty expensive to get a full course, and this alone won't get you quite fluent, but it provides a very solid foundation. Highly recommend

I love the conversational aspect and the voice recognition is great. Except it seems unable to really understand any single syllable word or phrase so I have to always bypass those. A minor gripe but it does prevent a five star rating. Other than that, I work this into my daily language learning and I appreciate what it does differently from other apps.