Rocket Spanish Review: The FASTEST Way to Learn Spanish?
In this Rocket Spanish Review, I show you the updated dashboard and features for Rocket Spanish, the most popular course within the Rocket Languages series.
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What do you think about this course? Let me know in the comments.
Rocket Spanish includes 382 hours of learning material, so I think it's great value. However, it's not without flaws.
In this video, I cover the following:
00:00 An introduction to the course
00:20 Free trial info
1:40 What the course looks like - Levels 1 - 3
2:30 Lesson types
3:45 What the audio lessons sound like
5:08 The game section
5:28 Who Rocket Spanish is best for
6:45 There is A LOT of content in this course
7:50 The Culture sections
8:22 Other features on the app
8:40 What I like most about Rocket Spanish
8:45 What I think would make Rocket Spanish better
9:50 Cost & pricing options
11:30 Survival kit
11:55 Summing up
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Hi James! 😄 ¡Qué buenos videos haces! Muy interesantes.
Muchas gracias :)
As a Spanish teacher honestly what timeline do you think it would take to become conversational in Spanish from an absolute beginner? Studying about 1.5 hrs a day?
How good do you think just Level 1 is? Is it enough to be able to hold a proper conversation in Spanish?
How did you learn Spanish
Hey Matthew, thanks for watching my video. I started in secondary school, then continued studying Spanish at university. Since then I have trialed dozens of language courses to learn other languages, including French, German, Arabic and Japanese. I take a lot of interest in the way languages are taught because it's all so different now (it was over 15 years ago when I started, and these resources weren't available back then!) Are you learning Spanish? If so, how?
It should be mentioned that Rocket Spanish teaches Latin American Spanish, not European Spanish. I gather that the differences are sometimes more amusing than significant but other times not. Still for this price I would expect a separate course for each (as does, e.g., Babbel, Drops, Lingvist, Mango Languages, Memrise, Rosetta Stone).
Hey George, that’s a really good point. I imagine this is due to demand and the fact that they cater to predominantly US customers.
Differentiating European Spanish from Latin American really doesn’t make any sense whatsoever for study. An Argentine speaks with a totally accent than a Cuban for example. Spaniards have Castilian, Catalan, Basque. Puerto Rican Spanish is night and day different than Mexican. Heck, within each country, the accents are vastly different too. A Mexican Maya from the Yucatán region speaks with a totally different accent than a Mexican norteño from Chihuahua. In Madrid, Spain, they lisp the C’s and Z’s, but not the S’s. But other parts of Spain don't use the lisp when pronouncing C's, and Z's. So it really doesn’t matter if it’s European or Latin America, the grammar is all the same, the accents and slangs are the only differences. No importa qué español aprendas, es la misma pinche cosa, buey.
I'm a couple lessons away from finishing level one and while, as you said, they concentrate on Latin American Spanish, they do talk about European differences and they are part of the curriculum when they are important distinctions. While I'm sure they'll be subtle differences I'll miss. I'm sure if I traveled to Spain, I'd know enough too get by, or figure out.