Rocket German Review

by a native German

Hi, my name is Stefan and I was asked by the webmaster of Learn German Links to review the product Rocket German made by Rocket languages.

I have been teaching German for a while now and have seen more than 90% of German text books and German audio and video tutorials out there. My Rocket German Review is not only based on product features but also on the language and the examples used in the Rocket German course.

I have found that many text books that are used for learning German on the Internet these days may have a nice look and nice examples. However, the language used in these books is often old-fashioned and somewhat strange - in some cases simply wrong. Many times in German textbooks I have seen examples where I was not even sure what was meant by the author and I was hoping no one would try to use these sentences when travelling to Germany - because no German would understand them.

This is the first thing that I liked about Rocket German: It uses contemporary German language. They have examples that you can actually use and that fit into the 21th century. Click here to see some free examples.

I know German is a difficult language to learn. (I am glad I didn't have to learn it as a second language:-)

Rocket German succeeds in making this difficult language easy and fun to learn. It does so by providing interactive language games and audio examples.

Rocket German uses interactive audio to not only teach you vocabulary and common phrases but also to pronounce them correctly.

I especially liked the interactive games that make learning German a fun thing to do without having the impression that you are 'taking a lesson'.

I can confirm that the audio examples must have been recorded by a native German and that they are pronounced correctly - unlike many other German audio courses I have reviewed.

There is one thing that I have to mention though: Rocket German is not cheap. However, I can tell you from my experience that to receive all this material other courses will charge you several hundred bucks. So compared with other German courses of similar quality Rocket German is a bargain.

It can be downloaded instantly. You don't have to wait for anything to be delivered or pay anything for shipping.

There is a free 6-day course available here. And even after you have bought the entire course you can return it within a period of 2 months.

Click here to go to the Rocket German page.

Rocket German Review - written by Stefan K. November 2008 for learn-german-links.net