How Rocket Spanish Helped My Friend John
I have a friend, John, who had traveled a few times to Spain, to a place on the east coast called Denia. After about five years of regular vacationing there, he’d fallen in love with the place. So, as soon as he took early retirement he decided to come over and get himself a place to live. He didn’t have any immediate family to worry about - his wife had died about 10 years before and they’d never had any children.
Like most Brits who come over here, he found a bungalow in a housing estate where the only residents were other Brits. It’s much easier, and you can get everything you need without having to speak a word of Spanish. Satellite TV beams over all your English programs - including his favorite football team’s matches. John couldn’t imagine living anywhere he couldn’t watch Liverpool on TV on a Saturday! Read the rest of this entry »
Travel Broadens the Mind - and Helps Learn Languages
It’s quite surprising how much of a help traveling is when it comes to learning languages. The more you visit countries other than your own, the more you realize that languages are an integral part of people’s culture, beliefs, values and traditions. And the more you come to realize that you can only truly understand a person’s culture, beliefs, values and traditions if you understand at least a little of their language.
And as this realization begins to sink in, you’ll notice how much more motivated you become to learn a foreign language. So, if you really want to get involved in learning a foreign language, make as many trips abroad as possible - obviously it’s more useful to visit a country whose language you’re studying, but visiting any country will help you to increase your motivation and thus your proficiency. Read the rest of this entry »
A Peep Inside Rocket French
I’d like to share with you two excerpts from the Rocket French course at beginner and intermediate level. Here we go!
Beginner Level
The first one is a transcript of audio track one, teaching you how to greet someone in French. To help you understand written French, you get to see the written conversation in French and its English translation with every track of the Interactive Audio Course! Remember that the conversation below is only the basic conversation - they add in piles of extra words and phrases during the course of each track! Read the rest of this entry »
Use Your Computer to Learn a New Language
If you’re a computer-person, you’re in luck! There are a lot of multimedia programs that have been made for use on computers. Most of them combine flashcard-type visual lessons or video with the ability to practice speaking the language using your microphone. The great advantage of these programs is that they allow you to progress at your own pace - and in the comfort of your own home. They are also much more complete - and usually more fun - than the traditional book-based, or book- and cassette-based courses. Read the rest of this entry »
Rocket Spanish - Why I Recommend it
If you’re looking for a great course to learn Spanish, whether you’re a complete beginner or you’ve already reached a certain level, I recommend you try Rocket Spanish.
Rocket Spanish is a friendly, comfortable course, and because it contains lots of different components it’s a perfect match for most of the different ways different people study. There are plenty of CDs, so if you spend a lot of time in a car, they can be just terrific. It might look strange if someone sees you sitting in the car talking to yourself, but it definitely helps a lot to repeat things out loud over and over again. One of the things that are especially useful are the long pauses - they give you time to say things without feeling pressured. And you can choose which way round you use the dialogues. You can see the lesson in print and then listen to the audio to check the pronunciation and accent of the words, or you can listen and repeat first, and then see how the words are written. Read the rest of this entry »
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