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Rocket Spanish is one of Rocket Language’s most popular courses. But does it live up to the hype and is it worth the slightly higher price tag?

This expert review will guide you through everything you need to know about the Rocket Spanish course, so you can make a decision as to whether it’s the course for you. We’ve included snapshots of what to expect from the course, how to get your hands on one of Rocket Language’s discounts and a comparison of its main competitors. Plus, what's in store from its 2020 revamp.

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Rocket Languages Spanish Review

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What is Rocket Spanish?

Rocket Spanish is a course created by Rocket Languages. It’s a desktop and app-based online learning platform that uses a traditional teaching approach to develop your Spanish skills from beginner to advanced. Using a thorough curriculum and step-by-step lesson approach, you’ll be learning all about the ins and outs of the Spanish language, grammar and culture.

Rocket Spanish focuses on Latin American Spanish rather than the Spanish spoken in mainland Spain.

The difference between Latin American Spanish and Spanish in Spain is minimal, and you won't notice too much of a difference. You'll still be able to converse with natives from Spain or any other Spanish-speaking countries.

What can you do on Rocket Spanish?

Rocket Languages breaks down its Spanish course into three different difficulty levels (1, 2 and 3). Within these levels are around seven different topic-specific modules, and within these modules, there is a selection of different lessons to choose from.

In Rocket Spanish you’ll find three types of lessons that cover speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Rocket Languages has designed a points system, so you can keep track of your profress.

You can use the progress dashboard to monitor your activity for the day, check out your position on the leaderboard and check your streak status.

Interactive Audio Lessons

The interactive audio lessons sit at the core of the Rocket Spanish course. Each level features around 30 audio-heavy lessons, that last 20 to 30 minutes.

Each lesson follows a similar structure. First, you’ll be asked to listen to a conversation in Spanish, which will be based around a specific topic. This might be as short as 15 minutes or as long as 40 minutes. You’ll then be given the English translation for the topic, and asked to repeat the Spanish phrases out loud.

Rocket Spanish features plenty of grammar and vocabulary tips throughout the lesson, so look out for these boxes as you go too.

Once you’ve finished with the audio part of the lesson, you’ll be invited to try out a series of reinforcements tasks that reiterate any language, grammar and vocabulary that you’ve learnt in the lesson.

You can also take advantage of the ‘Action Replay' section for a quick summary of the lesson you've just completed.

Language and Cultural Lessons

On each level on Rocket Spanish, you’ll also find an additional 60 hours of Language and Culture Lessons. Unlike the audio lessons, these focus more on the grammar you need to know to really master the Spanish language.

This is really useful for anyone learning Spanish who is hoping to become as close to fluent as possible.

The lessons are incredibly detailed, and there’s a lot of text to get through. The information is very useful though, so give it a go if you can.

As for the cultural side of these lessons, Rocket Spanish throws in a few insights into the Latin American culture. These are pretty short as far as lessons go, but they do add a bit of something different into the lesson.

Survival Kit Lessons

Lessons is probably a loose term for this section on Rocket Spanish, as it's mainly self-taught.

Each of the Survival Kit lessons consists of a bunch of related vocabulary that you’re able to listen to, speak and learn all on your own accord.

A few topics you’ll find here include; A Feast of Spanish, All the Colours of the Rainbow, and All About Life in the City.

This isn’t a great feature of Rocket Spanish and we’d recommend using a different platform like Memrise to learn extra bits of Spanish vocabulary.

Travelogue

The Travelogue on Rocket Spanish is a useful feature for those who will soon be holidaying in a Spanish-speaking country.

It acts as a kind of intensive course for those who need a basic understanding of Spanish.

The series follows a couple who are heading off to Mexico on holiday. You’ll follow them on their journey as they arrive at the airport, and as they check into their hotel at Playa Del Carmen.

Each lesson starts with an audio clip in both English and Spanish, and is followed by a series of reinforcement games that break down the text into manageable chunks.

As you navigate through the different chapters of the Travelogue, you’ll find yourself immersed in the Spanish speaking countries of Bolivia, Costa Rica, Peru and more.

What other features does Rocket Spanish have?

Testing and Reinforcement

As you scroll through each lesson, you’ll find a series of testing and reinforcement tasks that are designed to help the Spanish that you’ve just learnt stick around in your mind for a little longer.

These include:

FlashCards to help reinforce any new Spanish vocabulary from the lesson.
Hear It! Say It! This helps develop your speaking skills by listening to a Spanish word or phrase and then repeating it. Clever speech-recognition software records your voice and gives you a pronunciation score for your Spanish out of 100.
Know It! To improve your translation skills from English into Spanish by speaking the phrase or word out loud.
Quiz. A short quiz of five questions to helps you to test yourself on the Spanish that you’ve learnt in today’s lesson.
Write It! Practice and master how to use Spanish accented characters.

Voice Recognition

A great feature that works well most of the time is the voice recognition technology, that allows you to practice your pronunciation of those tricky Spanish words.

This works by giving you a score out of 100 depending on how well you’ve repeated the word. You can change the difficulty of this using the settings on the side panel.

This type of speech recognition technology has received mixed reviews, with lots of users reporting faulty scores. I gave it a go and it seemed okay, though not particularly helpful in telling you exactly where you’ve gone wrong with your pronunciation. I'd recommend using it with caution.