http://www.learnspanishreview.org/rocket-spanish-vs-michel-thomas-spanish-compare.html Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:28:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.learnspanishreview.org/rocket-spanish-vs-michel-thomas-spanish-compare.html/comment-page-1#comment-656 Nick Warren Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:28:19 +0000 http://www.learnspanishreview.org/?p=129#comment-656 I have used both Michel Thomas and Rocket to learn Spanish. Starting as a total novice, I found the Michel Thomas course a far easier introduction. Each word was introduced, explained and then used in several different ways so that I became very familiar with the word and its usage. I found that the Rocket course tended to hit me with 10 words together, explain only a portion of them, then move on leaving me feeling slightly uneasy that I'd fully understood the section. For example, it used estoy and soy (the difference between which Michel Thomas explains early and well), but Rocket simply led me to know they both mean "I am" without knowing the difference between them - even that they are derived from different verbs. Whilst Thomas builds up a sentence slowly and deliberately, Rocket hits you with a 5 or 6 line conversation and then pulls it apart. It means that there is a lot of "dead time" whilst you listen to something incomprehensible, waiting for someone to explain it. This method may work for some people, but it did not work well for me. I have used both Michel Thomas and Rocket to learn Spanish. Starting as a total novice, I found the Michel Thomas course a far easier introduction. Each word was introduced, explained and then used in several different ways so that I became very familiar with the word and its usage. I found that the Rocket course tended to hit me with 10 words together, explain only a portion of them, then move on leaving me feeling slightly uneasy that I’d fully understood the section. For example, it used estoy and soy (the difference between which Michel Thomas explains early and well), but Rocket simply led me to know they both mean “I am” without knowing the difference between them – even that they are derived from different verbs. Whilst Thomas builds up a sentence slowly and deliberately, Rocket hits you with a 5 or 6 line conversation and then pulls it apart. It means that there is a lot of “dead time” whilst you listen to something incomprehensible, waiting for someone to explain it. This method may work for some people, but it did not work well for me.

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