Rocket Japanese Review
Rocket Japanese Review
Official Site: rocketlanguages.com/japanese
(you would think the site would be www.rocketjapanese.com but its not)
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Rocket Japanese is simply one of the best learning tools you can get online right now for learning Japanese. I say this because of the way it teaches it’s users/ Most guides simply lead you to learn vocabulary words and just memorize them without really learning them.
The “RocketJapanese” program actually makes its user learn Japanese. Its actually pretty cool how the program works. The program comes with 31 interactive audio lessons.
These lessons include the transcripts in romaji of the conversation. This has the Japanese characters with the English translation. Let me breakdown how it works below:
The 1st Section: Theres pretty much 5 sections to the program, which each one building up to the next to further your learning. But the main part of the system is actually the 31 audio interative audio lessons. This is breifly how the audio lessons work:
Theres a native English speaker and a native Japanese speaker. The english speaker shows you the lesson and goes over some concepts in the lesson. So then the Japanese speaker speaks the japanese parts and the program gives you time after that to say it out loud.
So its an interactive learning process which is very cool.Each lessons ends with some questions that you are asked, then you can answer them aloud and compare them to the Japanese speakers answer.
The 2nd section:
This section includes 31 Culture and Grammer lessons with pictures to help you. This section basically goes over the grammer aspect in a detailed manner. It also includes cultural notes with instructions on written Japanese in a manner thats not complicated.
The 3rd Section:
This section is know as the “MegaVocab” which is basically just a game that teaches you the vocabulary. This has over 1,000 words in it and covers over 20 topics. But whats cool is you can also add words and pictures to the system, so the possibilites are endless here….you can expand your vocab at your own pace.
The game is cool how it works, you are shown a picture of something along with the english word.
You have a choice of 4 japanese words that are the same as the picture and the answer. This is cool because you get to see the japanese word and this can help you actually learn instead of just “remember” some word.
The 4th Section:
This part of the program is known as “MegaAudio” which helps you reconize the sound of Japanese words. You can select the topics you want to learn and go from there.
The program shows you 6 different pictures along with the english word for the picture. Now just select a image and the audio will play the sound of the correct Japanese word for it.
The 5th Section:
This is the “MegaHiragana” software. This goes over the writing aspect of Japanese which is great because most guides do not do this. Hiragana is an important aspect of Japanese writing and this program goes over it well. The way the program works is pretty cool. It basically shows a big picture of a Hiragana character with 4 potential answers for the sound of the character.
The program pretty much is all about knowing how to write the character when you hear the japanese word. So this is for when you actually learn the language better, but its cool because it completes the package.
When the click the correct answer the audio is actually played for the big character thats displayed so you can learn.
Final Thoughts:
This is actually a very detailed program and actually comes with forums where users and teachers can help each other which is great. Overall I think this is the best way to learn Japanese online without a doubt.
Most of the other ebooks out just simply teach you with methods that you don’t actually “learn” with.This program teaches you how to actually learn the language because it involves more real life type situations.