The Rocket Italian Course

About six months ago I decided to pursue a long time desire to learn how to speak Italian. In my area of the Midwest it's not that common to find people who speak Italian.

As a youngster I was friends with an Italian family and was invited to many of their Sunday dinners and I always found the language charming.

I had no idea where to find a home study course, so I asked one of the local college professors for advice. He steered me in the direction of the Rocket Italian.

The Rocket Italian Website

He was studying the Rocket French course and mentioned they also had courses in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German, Arabic, as well as Italian.

I began to check out the course and gather my facts and based on what I saw available in the marketplace, the Rocket Italian course seemed to be the best choice. This course was produced by an Italian by the name of Maria DiLorenzi.

The course is presented in modules. The first module contains 31 audio tracks designed to have you speaking some basic Italian after your first few lessons.

What's nice is that you learn enough words to speak Italian and have a basic conversation very quickly.

The Rocket Italian package includes the actual transcripts of the audios, which I found very helpful in following along with Italian lessons. Each audio is about 25 minutes long which means the full module is about 13 hours of content.

The methods used allow you to absorb and speak Italian very quickly. I know thirteen hours seems like a lot of time, but with the use of the audio tracks the time goes by quickly and effortlessly.

The Rocket Italian program also includes software and the first software application is called MegaVocab™. Using this software is made learning so quick and easy, and more importantly, it was fun.

The software is basically a vocabulary recognition tool. You use it by running through a series of words and learn through repetition - and an association with a picture. It's similar to the flashcards you used to learn with when you were a kid.

The software has 2000 words and pictures built into it, but it also allows you to add more words and pictures as you decide to learn more and more words.

screenshot of the actual software

I found this software to be a lot of fun to use. It is one thing to learn the vocabulary, but to understand it when spoken is what's really important.

This course was designed to take a person from the beginning stages of learning the Italian language, but continues to a more advanced level as well. I feel this increases the value of the program because you don't need to buy a more advanced course as you become more proficient with the language.

In my opinion, the most impressive part of this course is the members only forum where you can ask questions and communicate with other students and the Rocket Language online instructors.

To me, this forum made the cost of this course a real bargain, because if you get stuck on something, you find lots of help in the forum. I was plesantly surprised to find this feature included in the price.

Another part of my decision to participate in the Rocket course was the cost. To find a course of this high a quality, I expected to spend two to three hundred dollars and there were a couple of courses that looked promising in that price range. However the cost of the Rocket Italian™ course was ninety nine dollars and change.

I was also excited to find I could download the entire course to my computer instantly after making my payment. The instruction on their website made the download a breeze. I was then able to listen on my computer, burn the material to a CD, and I even loaded the audio on my ipod!

If you're nervous about deciding on a course, this course comes with a 60 day, no questions asked, money back guarantee. When I consider the quality of the course work, the software, the forum, the guarantee, and the bargain price, I give the Rocket Italian™ program my highest rating of 5 stars.

I'm confident I found the best possible course and feel strongly that a better value does not exist anywhere if you want to learn how to speak Italian.

I recommend you make things easy on yourself and check out the Rocket Italian™ course. I'm sure you will be happy with your decision.

See you in Rome!

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