RocketGermanReview.com

What is Rocket German ?
Rocket German is a German learning course. Unlike many other courses, it can be downloaded over the Internet. It took me about 25 minutes to download it with a broadband connection. You can also download it with a dial-up connection but this would take more time I imagine. You can also [...]

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The audio part of a language learning course is probably the most important part in my opinion, because it is aimed at teaching you how to speak in German (and understand people speaking to you in German). Ultimately, this is why you want to learn a new language – to speak to people. Being able [...]

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Two self study courses that are popular at the moment are Rocket German and the Rosetta Stone German course. This article will compare these two course in terms of their quality and how they teach the German language to students.
To begin with, these courses are quite different in their approach to teaching.
Rosetta Stone German tries to [...]

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The Michel Thomas course is primarily concerned with teaching conversational skills. His approach to teaching is excellent and you finish with confidence that you can initiate a conversation with a German speaking person.
Rocket German teaches reading, writing, comprehension and conversational skills. There is a large vocabulary set that can be learned through the games and exercises [...]

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German grammar is quite difficult to master and learning it rote fashion can be, well, a bit tedious. MegaVerb is a way to practice your verb conjugation that makes this important part of your language skills that little bit easier.
MegaVerb starts by offering you the tense that you want to perfect. You can select more [...]

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MegaAudio is similar to the MegaVocab game in the way it is laid out. You can select from 20 topics, ranging from general topics, like colors or numbers to more practical, like things you hear when shopping. Once you have selected a topic you go to a new screen.
The screen has 6 pictures with the [...]

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Rocket German features three games that help you to learn the more repetitive (and slightly boring) aspects of the language. These are MegaVocab, MegaAudio and MegaVerb. This article covers MegaVocab and asks can it really help you learn German ?
Megavocab is a game aimed at teaching you vocabulary. In some respects I think vocabulary is [...]

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This site deals with learning German using a self study language course. A self study course can be really useful when you are learning a new language but it can have some disadvantages over other ways to learn a language. Basically, a self study course gives you a great deal of flexibility in when and [...]

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