Rocket Chinese Review

Rocket Chinese Review – Can You Really Learn to Speak Chinese With This Course?

Rocket Chinese is one of the many language courses being offered by a company called Rocket Languages. In comparison to other the Chinese language courses out there, they claim that their Chinese language course is the best one available. Whether that is true or not is what we are going to try to determine in this Rocket Chinese Review.

About the Rocket Chinese Course

The main goal of the Rocket Chinese course is to help you to speak Chinese in a confident and natural way. The course is built on 5 major components that are supposed to help you to quickly and easily learn to speak Chinese. Here are the 5 components and how they work:

1.) 31 Interactive Audio Lessons

The Rocket Chinese Course comes with 31 interactive audio lessons. With these lessons, you will learn how to actually hold a conversation in Chinese. The conversations are broken down into easy to digest chunks so you won’t have any problem keeping up. Each lesson is about 28 minutes long. In total, there are over 15 hours of audio lessons just in this part of the course alone.

One thing that I like about audio lessons is that they come in mp3 format. You can listen to them on your iPod or in your car or anywhere else that you care to listen to them. You also receive written manuscripts of the conversations. These manuscripts will be in English and Chinese. The is will enable you to always be able to keep up with the conversation that is taking place, as well as help you to get used to reading and writing in Chinese.

2.) Record Your Voice With the Rocket Recorder

This part of the Rocket Chinese course is very cool. The Rocket Recorder will allow you to record yourself speaking Chinese, and then compare your voice to an actual native Chinese speaker. This is supposed to help you to get your pronunciations correct because it can be very difficult to know if you are saying the words correctly without actually speaking directly to someone.

The recorder uses a voice mapping technology. When you record your voice, it will show up as a voice wave that you can compare to the voice wave of the native Chinese speaker. If your voice waves don’t match, you are not pronouncing the word correctly. If they do match, then you are saying it correctly. This is just like having your own personal teacher sitting right there with you making sure you say the words correctly.

3.) 31 Language and Culture Lessons

The 31 language and culture lessons are very important because in order to truly learn Chinese, you have to understand the Chinese culture. Having a true understanding of the Chinese culture will help you to better understand the language. With this new found confidence, you will be able to confidentiality learn and speak the language and know why you are saying things a certain way.

This part of the course even includes videos that will teach you how to write Chinese characters. Seeing an actual example of a character being written will only help to reinforce your ability to confidently write in Chinese.

4.) A Variety of Chinese Learning Games

Learning games have always been a huge part of learning a new language and there are plenty that you can choose from in the Rocket Chinese course. These games were designed to help you to absorb the Chinese language even more by providing you with instant feedback and further improving your understanding of spoken Chinese.

5.) Rocket Chinese Certification

You even have the opportunity to receive an official Rocket Language certification once you can successfully pass the the Rocket Chinese Certification Tests. The tests and quizzes that you can take will be able to let you know whether you have mastered the Chinese language or whether you still have a lot of work to do. Once you do receive your Rocket Certification Certificate, you can be confident that you are ready to have a real Chinese conversation.

You will even get access to the Rocket Chinese Learners Forum where you can get 24-7 support from real Chinese teachers as well as other students and native Chinese speakers as well.

Is Rocket Chinese for Everyone?

While the Rocket Chinese course is truly designed for everyone, it may not be the best for everyone. To learn Chinese on you own, you must have the discipline and patience to learn the language. If you are not the disciplined type, a better option for you may be to get an actual Chinese tutor or take an actual Chinese language class. However, if you don’t have trouble taking self paced learning courses on your own, then this will definitely be the right Chinese language course for you.