Online Spanish Courses

How Does The King of Online Spanish Courses, Rocket Spanish compare with Rosetta Stone?

Although this site predominantly deals with online Spanish courses we thought we’d compare what we believe to be the best of the many online Spanish courses against what many also believe to be the best off-line course.

Rocket Spanish and Rosetta Stone are commonly regarded as being the best Spanish courses currently available and people often ask me which of the two courses I would recommend. Fortunately, I have been lucky enough to try both courses and outlined below is my honest verdict on them both:

Online Spanish Courses: Rocket Spanish

Rocket Spanish was the first language course created by the successful Rocket Languages trading company in 2004 and because of the success of this course the company were able to release further language courses all of them following the same successful template as used in Rocket Spanish, undisputed champion of online Spanish courses.

Rocket Spanish is one of a large number of online Spanish courses but in terms of it’s effectiveness it ranks second to none, providing me with results that I’d expect from successful online Spanish courses.

Rocket Spanish targets the teaching of everyday Spanish and is primarily aimed at the beginner who wants to be able to speak and understand everyday Spanish as used in typical situations such as eating in a restaurant or travelling.

One of the main advantages of online Spanish courses are their ability to stay ‘modern’, updating their courses and vocabulary regularly in order to be more applicable to modern usage and Rocket Spanish is the market leader in this field, it is impossible for ‘off-the-shelf’ courses to be able to do this and as a result they become outdated quite quickly.

The lessons in the course were very easy to follow and because I listened to many of them on my MP3 player it was very easy to work them into my day and repeat sections that I struggled with as many times as I found necessary.

As with a number of online Spanish courses, Rocket Spanish has incorporated the use of interactive learning games into the course which are both fun to use and, more importantly, were excellent when I was trying to absorb new information, something that is extremely difficult to achieve when learning from a book or when using purely audio lessons.

How Does Rosetta Stone, the Cream of Language Courses Compare With Online Spanish Courses?

Unlike Rocket Spanish, Rosetta Stone Spanish doesn’t offer a downloadable course, it is a high end, ‘off the shelf’, physical product, created by a company renowned for producing quality language learning material and this course is no exception.

Rosetta Stone’s language teaching method is known as “Dynamic Immersion” which is a way of teaching using interactive games, both visual and audio, to teach Spanish. This is not dissimilar to how many other courses teach, including Rocket Spanish.

The thinking behind this method of teaching is that the student is immersed in the language using a number of different teaching techniques and styles because there is never just one way of learning that will suit everybody, we all learn differently and are receptive to different ways of absorbing information.

Learning a language in this way is the same as how we learned to speak English when we were children, a natural, progressive and practical way to learn, and it’s effective too!

The Verdict: Online Spanish Courses Edge it!

So…which course is better? A lot depends on what, as a student, you prefer, both courses are very similar in their approach to teaching Spanish, the methodology and the quality of educational material provided.

However, the biggest swing factor in my decision making process was the cost. Online Spanish Courses are always going to be a more cost effective alternative to their physical counterparts and Rocket Spanish is no exception, costing a mere third of the price that you would pay for Rosetta Stone course!

This makes Rocket Spanish a clear winner in my opinion and my choice of preferred course as online Spanish courses do offer far greater benefits to the majority of us.

Read my Rocket Spanish Review here and get all the details on the very best of online Spanish courses

Hasta Luego Amigos

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